Bias in Underwriter Analyst Recommendations: Does it Matter?
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Underwriter analysts issue recommendations that are on average more favorable than recommendations of other analysts. In this paper, I ask whether this bias maKeywords
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