Evidence on the information content of text in analyst reports

AH Huang, AY Zang, R Zheng - The Accounting Review, 2014 - publications.aaahq.org
We document that textual discussions in a sample of 363,952 analyst reports provide
information to investors beyond that in the contemporaneously released earnings forecasts …

Decision fatigue and heuristic analyst forecasts

D Hirshleifer, Y Levi, B Lourie, SH Teoh - Journal of Financial Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Psychological evidence indicates that decision quality declines after an extensive session of
decision-making, a phenomenon known as decision fatigue. We study whether decision …

Do analysts gain an informational advantage by visiting listed companies?

B Han, D Kong, S Liu - Contemporary Accounting Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the improvements in forecast accuracy that result from analysts' visits to listed
companies. We find that company visits significantly enhance the accuracy of the analysts' …

Does the scope of the sell‐side analyst industry matter? An examination of bias, accuracy, and information content of analyst reports

K Merkley, R Michaely, J Pacelli - The Journal of Finance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We examine changes in the scope of the sell‐side analyst industry and whether these
changes impact information dissemination and the quality of analysts' reports. Our findings …

Sophisticated investors and market efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment

Y Chen, B Kelly, W Wu - Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We study how sophisticated investors, when faced with shocks to information environment,
change their information acquisition and trading behavior, and how these changes in turn …

Human versus machine: A comparison of robo-analyst and traditional research analyst investment recommendations

B Coleman, K Merkley, J Pacelli - The Accounting Review, 2022 - publications.aaahq.org
We provide the first comprehensive analysis of the properties of investment
recommendations generated by “Robo-Analysts,” which are human analyst-assisted …

What is the value of sell-side analysts? Evidence from coverage initiations and terminations

KK Li, H You - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate three potential channels of analyst value creation: improving fundamental
performance through monitoring, reducing information asymmetry, and increasing investor …

A time-series bootstrapping simulation method to distinguish sell-side analysts' skill from luck

C Su, H Zhang - Handbook of financial econometrics, mathematics …, 2021 - World Scientific
Data mining is quite common in econometric modeling when a given dataset is applied
multiple times for the purpose of inference; it in turn could bias inference. Given the …

Low-carbon city initiatives and analyst behaviour: a quasi-natural experiment

J Cao, W Li, A Bilokha - Journal of Financial Stability, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how environmental regulation and action affect analyst behaviour.
Exploiting staggered enactment of low carbon city (LCC) initiatives in a difference-in …

Emotional economic man: Calculation and anxiety in fund management

RJ Taffler, C Spence, A Eshraghi - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2017 - Elsevier
Dominant theorisations of investment decision making remain firmly wedded to the notion of
economic rationality, either as a postulate of how financial actors actually behave or as a …