The persistence of relative performance in stock recommendations of sell-side financial analysts

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 129-152

  Li, Xi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst recommendations; Capital markets; Performance persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744595348     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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