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analyst coverage links documented in the literature. The cross-return predictability is not significant in the bond market … market segmentation between the equity and bond markets …
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traders vary enormously in their behavior. This contrasts with the standard prediction-market models, which assume relatively … distortionary effects on market outcomes even when beliefs are symmetrically distributed around the truth. Simulations of a model … which allows traders to have different motives and tastes for risk indicate that including such traders produce the market …
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. Price movements are consistent with market participants who interpret major news in a way which confirms their prior beliefs …
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The CFTC has recently licensed a commercial prediction market to operate in the US. Previous theoretical work has not … incorporated that prediction markets charge fees. We examine the impact of fees by introducing them to a model in which the market …
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The accounting literature has used the midpoint of range forecasts in various research settings, assuming that the midpoint is the best proxy for managers' earnings expectations revealed in range forecasts. We argue that given managers' asymmetric loss functions regarding earnings surprises,...
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We study the forecasting behavior of minority sell-side equity analysts. Distinct from the impact of cultural and geographic diversity, we demonstrate that, although minority analyst forecasts have lower accuracy, consistency in their forecasts generates stronger correlation between the...
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We put forward a model in which analysts are uncertain about a firm's earnings process. Faced with the possibility of using a misspecified model, analysts issue forecasts that are robust to model misspecification. We estimate that this mechanism explains approximately 60% of the autocorrelation...
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I study security analysts' early forecasts. Forecasts with over one-year horizons constitute nearly one-half of all analysts' forecasts. I find that the demand for early forecasts is driven by long-term institutional investors and that analyst skills and resources are more important for...
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