Analysts have been found to underweight the innovation in most recent quarter earnings when forecasting next quarter earnings, and these expectations have been posited as an explanation for post-earnings announcement drift. This study uses an experimental asset market to examine whether similar...

Analysts have been found to underweight the innovation in most recent quarter earnings when forecasting next quarter earnings, and these expectations have been posited as an explanation for post-earnings announcement drift. This study uses an experimental asset market to examine whether similar...

Our paper examines the association between components of analysts' earnings surprises and future earnings. We decompose the analysts' earnings surprise into its revenue, pretax margin, pretax income, and tax components. After controlling for current period earnings and discretionary accruals, we...

This study tests the competitive equilibrium predictions of a multi-period model of audit pricing and independence in two sets of laboratory markets: a control set consisting of human subjects in the role of auditors contracting with robot clients, and a treatment set of which both auditors and...