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This paper examines the extent to which financial signaling affects the analysts' and managers' forecast releases. The … findings give evidence of heterogeneity of analysts' forecast errors between firms with strong financial indicators (high … group). The paper further indicates that managers' forecast releases also depend on the type of the firm and that managers …
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analysts' forecast revisions and prior stock price changes. We validate this measure by examining whether analysts with lower …. We find that the stock price impacts of forecast revisions issued by analysts with higher PPI are larger than those … of directors rely more on analysts' forecast errors in their CEO turnover decisions when firms are followed by analysts …
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present a model in which forecast accuracy and timing are affected by information uncertainty stemming from (i) the presence … of forecast bias and (ii) investors' limited capability to adjust to this bias. We assume that the presence of a bias is … affects the trade-off between timeliness and forecast quality. We find that the optimal forecasting time varies non …
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We investigate whether banks rely on the information content in equity analysts' annual earnings forecasts when assessing the risk of potential borrowers. While a long literature finds that analysts provide useful information to market participants, it is not clear that banks, which have access...
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with analyst forecast revisions. First, the market does not make a sufficient distinction between revisions that provide …. Finally, a substantial portion of the delayed price adjustment occurs around subsequent earnings-announcement and forecast …
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This study examines whether analysts' decisions to issue cash flows forecasts depend endogenously on their decision to use these forecasts to set target prices. An endogenous switching regression model, with analyst report regimes of disclosure and non-disclosure of cash flow forecasts, shows...
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This study proposes and validates “other information” in analysts' forecasts as a legitimate proxy for future cash flows, and examines its incremental role in explaining stock return volatility. We suggest that “other information” contains information about fundamentals beyond that...
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forecast errors and accruals, which we label “managers' accrual-related forecast bias.” We build on extensive research which … between managers' earnings forecast errors and discretionary accruals, but no association between managers' earnings forecast … errors and nondiscretionary accruals. Furthermore, the association between managers' earnings forecast errors and …
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, like the years 2001 and 2009. Integrating the SEM forecast as ‘other information' in market value regressions significantly …'. The SEM forecast is able to explain a major portion of the information advantage of analysts relevant for explaining …
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Financial restatements are costly, but frequent, events and many firms restate several times. This paper asks why rational managers engage in misreporting, in spite of the costly consequences. We present a simple extension to the Fischer and Verrecchia (2000) model, which provides testable...
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