Evaluating the properties of analysts' forecasts: A bootstrap approach

British Accounting Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-13

  Clatworthy, Mark A ^a   Peel, David A ^b   Pope, Peter F ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysts' forecasts; Deflation; Heteroskedasticity; Wild bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847017789     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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