Earnings skewness and analyst forecast bias

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-29

  Gu, Zhaoyang ^a   Wu, Joanna Shuang ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst forecast bias; Earnings skewness; Mean absolute forecast error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037375980     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4101(02)00095-2     Document Type: Article

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