Do Analysts at Independent Research Firms Make Better Earnings Forecasts?
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This study compares the earnings forecasts of analysts employed by independent research firms to those of analysts employed by investment banks along the dimensKeywords
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