forecast accuracy. These results are consistent with the proposition that, while analysts apparently find XBRL data to be …

forecast when actual earnings exceed the consensus and the most pessimistic forecast when the consensus exceeds actual earnings …

results clearly demonstrate that analyst forecast errors, and forecast dispersion, increase with EPU. US monetary policy … uncertainty and Japanese trade policy uncertainty are particularly important in generating forecast dispersion. The empirical … findings are consistent across forecast horizons ranging from 1-month to 1-year. This has important implications for market …

affecting firms under coverage. We find that temporarily distracted analysts achieve lower forecast accuracy, revise forecasts … less frequently, and publish less informative forecast revisions relative to non-distracted analysts. Further, at the firm …

forecasts. Yet bias does not necessarily invalidate a forecast, nor does it impinge on its relative quality. We find that …

reflect the predictable component of analyst forecast errors. This evidence conflicts with conclusions in prior research … characteristic and analyst forecasts predicts future analyst forecast errors, forecast revisions, and changes in buy …/sell recommendations. I document abnormal returns to a strategy that sorts firms based on predicted forecast errors, consistent with …