Espahbodi, Reza; Dugar, Amitabh - 2021
benefits to analysts of issuing optimistic forecasts — when the costs of issuing an optimistic forecast are high relative to … the benefits of doing so, optimism will be less apparent or absent. We also argue that underreaction to past forecast … past forecast errors and past changes in earnings should persist during the period of financial distress. For turnaround …