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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- 2006 Canadian Academic Accounting Association
- ISSN
- 0823-9150
- eISSN
- 1911-3846
- DOI
- 10.1506/92CB-P8G9-2A31-PV0R
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Prior literature observes that information uncertainty exacerbates investor underreaction behavior. In this paper, I investigate whether, as professional investment intermediaries, sell‐side analysts suffer more behavioral biases in cases of greater information uncertainty. I show that greater information uncertainty predicts more positive (negative) forecast errors and subsequent forecast revisions following good (bad) news, which corroborates previous findings on the post‐analyst‐revision drift. The opposite effects of information uncertainty on forecast errors and subsequent forecast revisions following good versus bad news support the analyst underreaction hypothesis and are inconsistent with analyst forecast rationality or optimism suggested in prior literature.
Journal
Contemporary Accounting Research – Wiley
Published: Jun 1, 2006