A re-examination of financial analysts' differential earnings forecast accuracy

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-42

  Sinha, Praveen ^a   Brown, Lawrence D ^a   Das, Somnath ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0002370236     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1997.tb00518.x     Document Type: Article

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