Michel, Jean-Sébastien; Pandes, J. Ari - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
This paper finds that about one-quarter of analyst forecast dispersion and one-half of the dispersion … and analyst overconfidence dispersion are the two most significant determinants of analyst forecast dispersion. Together …, these two variables capture 77% of the explained variation in analyst forecast dispersion when all known determinants are …