A Positive Model of Earnings Forecasts: Top Down versus Bottom Up
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Business
- Vol. 75 (1) , 127-152
- https://doi.org/10.1086/323507
Abstract
This article analyzes the behavior of two groups of corporate earnings forecasters: analysts, who follow individual company fortunes, and market strategists, wh...Keywords
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