Alternative adjustments to analysts’ earnings forecasts: Relative and complementary performance

Financial Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-114

  Lo, May H ^a   Elgers, Pieter T ^b  

^a WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts forecasts; Composite forecasts; Earnings forecast adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995938268     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.1998.tb01371.x     Document Type: Article

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