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In this study, we examine how analysts are affected by the public actions of investors and other analysts by closely examining how analysts revise their earnings forecasts after an earnings announcement. In particular, we hypothesize that analysts observe the actions of investors and other...
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Using an international sample, I investigate whether the extent of firms' disclosure of their accounting policies in … - level variables, I find that the level of accounting policy disclosure is significantly negatively related to forecast … dispersion and forecast error. In particular, I find that accounting policy disclosures are incrementally useful to analysts over …
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positing that an important role of accounting releases is to trigger the generation of idiosyncratic information by elite …
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Existing research indicates that firms with high accruals are more likely to experience future earnings problems, but that investors' expectations, as reflected in stock prices, do not appear to anticipate these problems. In this paper, we directly examine the published opinions of two types of...
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analysts' common and idiosyncratic information. These findings are due to higher quality annual and quarterly accounting …
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This paper examines the role of earnings quality in the future performance of firms that marginally miss or beat analysts' forecasts. We focus primarily on two groups of firms: those that miss their forecast but appear not to have attempted to exceed it by managing earnings, and those that...
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This study examines the response of First Call financial analysts to company restatements and corrective disclosures that lead to an allegation of securities fraud and compares this with the response of three other informed investor groups - insiders, short sellers, and institutions. The sample...
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the level of annual report disclosure; and between forecast accuracy and the degree of enforcement of accounting standards … follow prescribed accounting rules, which, in turn, reduces analysts' uncertainty about future earnings. I also find evidence … more choice among accounting methods is allowed …
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While much has been written about the ability of financial analysts to predict periodic earnings, little has been documented on the behavior of analysts around irregular events. Such events can have significant effects on earnings and market capitalization. This study examines the response of...
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Overconfident CEOs are known to overestimate their ability to generate returns, overpay for target firms, and take excessive risks. We find a CEO's overconfidence can also indirectly affect other market participants, specifically analysts who issue earnings forecasts. First, firms with...
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