Retraction: When Do Analysts Adjust for Biases in Management Guidance? Effects of Guidance Track Record and Analysts’ Incentives (Contemporary Accounting Research., (2010) 27, 1, (187-208), 10.1111/j.1911-3846.2010.01006.x);When do analysts adjust for biases in management guidance? Effects of guidance track record and analysts' incentives

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 187-208

  Tan, Hun Tong ^a   Libby, Robert ^b   Hunton, James E ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analyst forecasts; Incentives; Management earnings guidance; Track record

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549183725     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12120     Document Type: Erratum

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