Before an analyst becomes an analyst: Does industry experience matter?

D Bradley, S Gokkaya, X Liu - The Journal of Finance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Using hand‐collected biographical information on financial analysts from 1983 to 2011, we
find that analysts making forecasts on firms in industries related to their preanalyst …

Analyst career concerns, effort allocation, and firms' information environment

J Harford, F Jiang, R Wang, F **e - The Review of Financial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Analysts strategically allocate more effort to portfolio firms that are relatively more important
to their careers. Thus, the other firms the analysts cover indirectly affect a firm's information …

Do earnings estimates add value to sell-side analysts' investment recommendations?

A Kecskés, R Michaely, KL Womack - Management science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
Sell-side analysts change their stock recommendations when their valuations differ from the
market's. These valuation differences can arise from either differences in earnings estimates …

Financial analysts

D Bradley - Handbook of Financial Decision Making, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Financial analysts are information intermediaries that influence a host of financial actors and
policies. Their research output is widely distributed, not only to their clients but also through …

Sell-side analysts' assessment of ESG risk

M Park, A Yoon, T Zach - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
We assess whether and how financial analysts incorporate information about downside ESG
risk. Using a unique dataset on firm-day level negative ESG incidents, we find that analysts' …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-industry information sharing among colleagues and analyst research

AH Huang, AP Lin, AY Zang - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We identify a specific organizational resource in brokerage houses—information sharing
among analyst colleagues who cover economically related industries along a supply chain …

Seemingly inconsistent analyst revisions

M Iselin, M Park, A Van Buskirk - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In about 20%–30% of cases where an analyst revises two outputs (namely,
earnings estimates, target prices, or stock recommendations) simultaneously, the two …

Outperforming the market: a comparison of Star and NonStar analysts' investment strategies and recommendations

DB Vukovic, OOU Kurbonov, M Maiti, M Özer… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
We employ StarMine to investigate the impact of analyst recommendations on stock
performance. We test whether star-ranked analysts generate abnormal returns and …

The changing nature of financial analysis in the presence of ETFs

R Lundholm, X Zheng - Review of Accounting Studies, 2024 - Springer
We study how the launch of an electronically traded fund (ETF) that holds firms in a specific
industry changes the behavior of analysts who follow that firms in that industry. An industry …

A Global Analysis of Universities Performance in the World Higher Education Institution Rankings

DME Barbosa, JAS Páramo - REICE: Revista Iberoamericana …, 2023 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Since 2017, a large part of the educational institutions in Europe have been working on
initiatives to strategically strengthen the education platform, creating networks throughout …