(referred to as co-owned brokerage houses, co-owned firms, and connected analysts, respectively) on analyst forecast performance … improves analyst forecast accuracy. This result is robust to a difference-in-differences design that exploits exogenous shocks …

accurate earnings forecasts than individual analysts and that the stock market reacts more strongly to forecast revisions … show that team size and team member ability are significantly associated with forecast accuracy. Moreover, using detailed … analyst background information from LinkedIn, we find that forecast accuracy is positively associated with team diversity …

empirical study has investigated the nexus between the analyst forecast dispersion (AFD) and excess returns surrounding stock …

implemented during 2007. The empirical results show that after the new accounting standards were implemented, forecast error among … forecast earnings more frequently than they did before the new accounting standards. These results imply that the …

forecast levels. A country's proximity to the US, importance to the firm, and visibility, as well as availability of more … precise information about foreign country exposures, contribute to consensus forecast efficiency. We identify a dimension of … — and show that it contributes to forecast efficiency, accuracy, and informativeness and that it helps the analyst achieve …

available forecast for each forecaster and the difference between the average and the forecast that this forecaster previously … made. We extended the knowledge base by analyzing the unpredictable component of the earnings forecast. We found that for … some forecasters the unpredictable component can be used to improve upon the predictable forecast, but we also found that …

nickels documented in Thomas (1989). In addition, this paper documents a hitherto unrecorded phenomenon that forecast … revisions also exhibit granularity at multiples of nickels and shows that analysts are more likely to make nickel forecast …

We document an improvement in analysts’ forecast accuracy following increased sector ETF ownership. We identify a …, analysts have an opportunity to re-optimize their attention to firm-specific information and improve forecast accuracy …