Can Stock Recommendations Predict Earnings Management and Analysts' Earnings Forecast Errors?
Can Stock Recommendations Predict Earnings Management and Analysts' Earnings Forecast Errors?
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Boston, USA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Inc
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Boston, USA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Inc
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In this article we present evidence that a firm's stock price sensitivity to earnings news, as measured by outstanding stock recommendation, affects its incentives to manage earnings and, in turn, affects analysts' ex post forecast errors. In particular, we find a tendency for firms rated a Sell (Buy) to engage more (less) frequently in extreme, in...
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Can Stock Recommendations Predict Earnings Management and Analysts' Earnings Forecast Errors?
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_206729373
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_206729373
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0021-8456
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1475-679X
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10.1111/1475-679X.00093
