Fool's Gold: Social Proof in the Initiation and Abandonment of Coverage by Wall Street Analysts
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- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 46 (3) , 502-526
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3094873
Abstract
This paper examines the dynamics of social influence in the choices of securities analysts to initiate and abandon coverage of firms listed on the NASDAQ nation...Keywords
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