Further evidence on optimism and underreaction in analysts' forecasts

Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-21

  Espahbodi, Reza ^a   Dugar, Amitabh ^b   Tehranian, Hassan ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b PanAgora Asset Management   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings forecast; Financial distress; Forecast bias; G10; G14; G33; M41; Underreaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035285415     PISSN: 10583300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1058-3300(01)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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