This study examines the impact of unidentifiable individual differences among financial analysts on the cross section of their earnings forecast accuracy. Various psychological factors, such as decision style and personality traits, are documented to impact individuals' decision making. However,...

This study constructs composite forecasts and evaluates their contextual usefulness as a proxy for investors' expectations of annual earnings. Our empirical tests utilize composites of three forecast sources: financial analysts', time-series and security-price based forecasts. Our full sample...

This study addresses the impact of firm- and time-specific attributes on the accuracy of composite forecasts of annual earnings, constructed from time-series, price-based, and analysts' forecasts. The attributes examined include firm size, analysts' coverage, and time periods pre-dating and...

We study a joint capacity leasing and demand acceptance problem in intermodal transportation. The model features multiple sources of evolving supply and demand, and endogenizes the interplay of three levers --- forecasting, leasing, and demand acceptance. We characterize the optimal policy, and...