I carry out an empirical analysis to recover stock analysts' loss functions from observations on forecasts, actual realizations and a proxy for the publicly observed part of the analyst's information set. The forecasts I use are analyst stock (buy/hold/sell) recommendations for two Blue Chip...

I carry out an empirical analysis to recover stock analysts' loss functions from observations on forecasts, actual realizations and a proxy for the publicly observed part of the analyst's information set. The forecasts I use are analyst stock (buy/hold/sell) recommendations for two Blue Chip...