The first- and second-hand effect of analysts' stock recommendations: Evidence from the swiss stock market

European Financial Management

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 962-988

  Schlumpf, Philipp M ^a   Schmid, Markus M ^b   Zimmermann, Heinz ^c  

^a Risk Management ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analysts; Market efficiency; Price pressure and information hypotheses; Second hand information; Stock recommendations

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049157872     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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