Can Stock Recommendations Predict Earnings Management and Analysts' Earnings Forecast Errors?
Preprint
- 1 January 1999
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We investigate whether the direction and magnitude of earnings management by a firm is affected by analysts' current perception of its equity investment potentiKeywords
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