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There is little consensus regarding the overall performance of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry. The goal of this paper is to investigate the change in operating performance, efficiency, and value addition of US bank mergers and acquisitions after GLBA. We extend the previous...
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Using a value-weighted rather than an equally weighted regression, Easton and Sommers (2007) show that the upward bias in the risk premium implied by analysts' earnings forecasts falls to 1.6%, but remains statistically and economically significant. In this paper, we argue that any estimation of...
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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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We develop a model to predict bankruptcies, exploiting that negative book equity is a strong indicator of financial distress. Accordingly, our key predictor of bankruptcy is the probability that future losses will deplete a firm's book equity. To calculate this probability, we use earnings...
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Prior research on financial analyst' quarterly earnings forecasts has documented serial correlation in forecast errors …. This paper examines the way serial correlation in quarterly earnings forecast errors varies with firm and analyst … correlation in forecast errors is significant and seemingly independent of firm and analyst attributes, I model consensus forecast …
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