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| Author: | Abarbanell, J. Lehavy, R. |
| Title: | Biased forecasts or biased earnings? The role of reported earnings in explaining apparent bias and over/underreaction in analysts' earnings forecasts |
| Journal: | Economics of innovation and new technology
2003 : DEC, VOL. 36:1-3, p. 105-146 |
| Index terms: | bias earnings forecasting |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper shows how two relatively small but statistically influential asymmetries in the tail and the middle of distributions of analysts' forecast errors can exaggerate or obscure evidence consistent with analyst bias and inefficiency, leading to incosistent inferences. An empirical link is identified between firms' recognition of unexpected accruals and the presence of the two asymmetries in distributions of forecast errors that suggests that firm reporting choices play an important role in determining analysts' forecast errors. |
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