Financial analysts comprise one important group of information intermediaries between firms and investors (Healy & Palepu, 2001). They have great potential to decrease information asymmetry between firms and investors, resulting in better allocation of capital. Analysts' work is influenced by,...

The growth prospects of new and old emerging markets -- Are emerging stock markets less efficient? : a survey of empirical literature -- How "normal" are emerging market returns? -- Emerging markets exposure : equities or hedge funds? -- Equity returns in emerging markets : prospects for the...

The aim of the paper is to study empirically the influence of higher moments of the return distribution on conditional value at risk (CVaR). To be more exact, we attempt to reveal the extent to which the risk given by CVaR can be estimated when relying on the mean, standard deviation, skewness...