Cover me: Managers' responses to changes in analyst coverage in the post-regulation fd period

Accounting Review

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1851-1885

  Anantharaman, Divya ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Anagerial guidance; Analyst coverage; Value of analysts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055197960     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10126     Document Type: Article

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