In US securities fraud cases, the Market Model-based event study has been a required component of any calculation of damages. However, in Australia, there is no authority regarding the appropriate method for estimating damages for breaches of continuous disclosure provisions, a branch of...

Using broker level data we demonstrate that relatively optimistic and relatively pessimistic analyst earnings forecasts both generate trade for their brokerage firms. This relationship is found to be asymmetric as the influence of relatively optimistic analyst forecasts on own broker market...