A note on analysts' earnings forecast errors distribution

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 147-164

  Cohen, Daniel A ^a   Lys, Thomas Z ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts' bias; Analysts' forecasts; Analysts' loss function; Analysts' under overreaction to information; Discretionary accruals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742269359     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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