Discussion of analysts' treatment of non-recurring items in street earnings and loss function assumptions in rational expectations tests on financial analysts' earnings forecasts

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 205-222

  Lambert, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings forecasts; Financial analysts; Street earnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344318343     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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