Do investors respond to analysts' forecast revisions as if forecast accuracy is all that matters?

Accounting Review

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 227-249

  Clement, Michael B ^a   Tse, Senyo Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst characteristics; Analyst forecast accuracy; Security returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037289353     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2003.78.1.227     Document Type: Review

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