Sophistication-related differences in investors' models of the relative accuracy of analysts' forecast revisions

Accounting Review

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 679-706

  Bonner, Sarah E ^b   Walther, Beverly R ^b   Young, Susan M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Analyst forecast revisions; Investor sophistication; Lens model; Market reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043076246     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2003.78.3.679     Document Type: Article

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