We assess investment banks' influence over the agreement between their analysts' research behavior and their clients' interests, in the post-reform era. Competing banks discipline their analysts with worse career outcomes for producing biased reports, issuing shirking reports, and for...

Selling information -- Informed intermediaries -- Independent financial advice -- Mergers & Acquisitions advisory -- Securities underwriting -- Biased analyst recommendations -- Analyst reputation -- Regulation of financial analysts -- Financial innovation -- Asset management -- Brokerage...