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future. In addition, we draw on some contemporary measures of forecast quality (prediction-realization diagram, test of …
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We examine whether finance professionals deviate from Bayes’ theorem on the processing of nondiagnostic information when forecasting quarterly earnings. Using field data from sell-side financial analysts and employing a regression discontinuity design, we find that analysts whose forecasts...
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. Afterwards I use target prices to measure forecast bias and the growth in Earnings Per Share as signals, and regress analysts …' forecast bias over different deciles of favorable signals interacted with prior negative forecast bias in a dynamic panel data …I empirically study how confirmatory bias works for strong and contradictory signals using data on sell-side analysts …
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We examine article, author and firm characteristics of investment articles published by non-professional analysts on the social media investment platform Seeking Alpha from 2006 to 2020 leading to visible market value changes. We show that there are differences between articles followed by stock...
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This paper studies whether and why algorithmic traders exhibit one of the most broadlydocumented behavioral puzzles - the disposition effect. We use trade data from the NASDAQ Copenhagen Stock Exchange merged with the weather data. We find that on average, the disposition effect for human...
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We investigate how individuals use measures of apparent predictability from price charts to predict future market prices. Subjects in our experiment predict both random walk times series, as in the seminal work by Bloomfield & Hales (2002) (BH), and stock price time series. We successfully...
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