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Book Analysts  Forecasts in  Good News  and  Bad News  Environments

Download or read book Analysts Forecasts in Good News and Bad News Environments written by Davit Adut and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is compelling empirical evidence to suggest that good news about corporate performance comes out early but bad news comes out late. Regardless of the underlying reason for such differential timing, existence of such systematic behavior leads to three related questions that we seek to answer in this paper. First, would the existence of this differential timing fundamentally alter the information environment surrounding the main event (earnings announcement) in a way that the forecasts of earnings under a good-news and a bad-news environment would be associated with different levels of uncertainty exhibited by different forecast variances? Second, if earnings forecasts do have different variances under good-news and bad news environment, can these variances be exploited to construct an improved consensus earnings forecast? Finally, can we make ex-ante arbitrage profit based on portfolios constructed on variance of analysts' forecasts?

Book The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour written by Alan Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has recently been an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference dedicated to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. Employing empirical methods - including laboratory and field experiments, observations, questionnaires and interviews - the Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of theory and method, financial and consumer behaviour, the environment and biological perspectives. This second edition also includes new chapters on topics such as neuroeconomics, unemployment, debt, behavioural public finance, and cutting-edge work on fuzzy trace theory and robots, cyborgs and consumption. With distinguished contributors from a variety of countries and theoretical backgrounds, the Handbook is an important step forward in the improvement of communications between the disciplines of psychology and economics that will appeal to academic researchers and graduates in economic psychology and behavioral economics.

Book The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements

Download or read book The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements written by Gerald I. White and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting Standards (US and International) have been updated to reflect the latest pronouncements. * An increased international focus with more coverage of IASC and non-US GAAPs and more non-US examples.

Book Financial Accounting and Equity Markets

Download or read book Financial Accounting and Equity Markets written by Philip Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," arguably had a greater impact on the course of accounting research, directly and indirectly, than any other article during the second half of the twentieth century. Since that time, his innovative research has focused on issues that bridge accounting and finance, including the relationships between net profit reports and the stock market, the long-run performance of acquiring firms, statutory sanctions and voluntary corporate disclosure, and the politics and future of national accounting standards to name a few. This volume brings together the greatest hits of Brown’s career, including several articles that were published in out-of-the-way places, for easier use by students and researchers in the field. With a foreword written by Stephen A. Zeff, and an introduction that discusses the evolution of Brown’s research interests and explains the context for each of the essays included in the volume, this book offers the reader a unique look inside this remarkable 50-year career.

Book Advances in Behavioral Finance

Download or read book Advances in Behavioral Finance written by Richard H. Thaler and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1993-08-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern financial markets offer the real world's best approximation to the idealized price auction market envisioned in economic theory. Nevertheless, as the increasingly exquisite and detailed financial data demonstrate, financial markets often fail to behave as they should if trading were truly dominated by the fully rational investors that populate financial theories. These markets anomalies have spawned a new approach to finance, one which as editor Richard Thaler puts it, "entertains the possibility that some agents in the economy behave less than fully rationally some of the time." Advances in Behavioral Finance collects together twenty-one recent articles that illustrate the power of this approach. These papers demonstrate how specific departures from fully rational decision making by individual market agents can provide explanations of otherwise puzzling market phenomena. To take several examples, Werner De Bondt and Thaler find an explanation for superior price performance of firms with poor recent earnings histories in the tendencies of investors to overreact to recent information. Richard Roll traces the negative effects of corporate takeovers on the stock prices of the acquiring firms to the overconfidence of managers, who fail to recognize the contributions of chance to their past successes. Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny show how the difficulty of establishing a reliable reputation for correctly assessing the value of long term capital projects can lead investment analysis, and hence corporate managers, to focus myopically on short term returns. As a testing ground for assessing the empirical accuracy of behavioral theories, the successful studies in this landmark collection reach beyond the world of finance to suggest, very powerfully, the importance of pursuing behavioral approaches to other areas of economic life. Advances in Behavioral Finance is a solid beachhead for behavioral work in the financial arena and a clear promise of wider application for behavioral economics in the future.

Book International Journal of Forecasting

Download or read book International Journal of Forecasting written by International institute of forecasters and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Security Analyst Forecasting and Asset Allocation

Download or read book Handbook of Security Analyst Forecasting and Asset Allocation written by John Guerard and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series on contemporary studies in economic and financial analysis, this volume focuses on security analyst forecasting and asset allocation. Topics include market response to earning forecasts; and the effectiveness of security analysts' forecasts; among others.

Book Studies in Accounting Research

Download or read book Studies in Accounting Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conflicts of Interest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luc Thévenoz
  • Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 9041125787
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Conflicts of Interest written by Luc Thévenoz and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts of interest arise naturally in all walks of life, particularly in business life. As general and indeed inevitable phenomena, conflicts of interest should not be prohibited but properly managed. This book presents indepth analysis of such management in three areas of corporate governance where the conflict-of-interest problems are particularly acute: executive compensation, financial analysis, and asset management. ""Conflicts of Interest"" presents the results of a two-year-long research project bringing together academics and practitioners in both law and finance from Europe and the.

Book Waiting for Guidance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Jeremy Cohen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Waiting for Guidance written by Lee Jeremy Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market views bad-news management earnings forecasts as more credible than good-news forecasts not because good-news forecasts are biased, but rather because they are noisier than bad-news forecasts. After controlling for noise, the difference in market response disappears. Bad-news forecasts have unconditionally lower dispersion around final earnings and, unlike good-news forecasts, bad-news forecasts become more accurate and contain higher magnitude updates as earnings announcement dates approach. The results provide new direct evidence that management differentially seeks to verify bad news, and withholds greater amounts of bad news while it seeks verification. Consistent with rational markets, this mitigation of noise provides a novel explanation for the asymmetric market response to management earnings forecasts.

Book An Evaluation of Security Analysts  Earnings Forecasts

Download or read book An Evaluation of Security Analysts Earnings Forecasts written by Y. H. Lui and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discretionary Disclosure and External Financing

Download or read book Discretionary Disclosure and External Financing written by Harri J. Seppänen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an analysis of disclosure data from 42 non-financial Finnish firms between 1990 and 1992, examines managers' information disclosure practices (disclosure frequency and timing). Investigates whether external financing arrangements are associated with managers' general accounting disclosure practices in an institutional setting that is considered to exhibit 'relationship' financing.