The timing of analysts' earnings forecasts

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 513-545

  Guttman, Ilan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst forecast; Analysts' incentives; Clustering; Financial analysts; Timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951853579     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.2.513     Document Type: Article

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