... describe the sample. In Section IV we discuss the research design and present the empirical results. Additional analysis is described in Section V, and our conclusions are presented in Section VI. information transfer financial analysts externalities...

...Xiaohui Gloria Liu; Ramachandran Natarajan ABSTRACT Financial analysts' forecast dispersion has been used in a variety of contexts in accounting and finance studies. In this study, we provide large sample evidence on the cross-sectional determinants of forecast dispersion and examine to what...

..., and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Editor's note: Accepted by Beverly Walther. March 2010 March 2012 2012 stock return synchronicity financial analysts analyst initiations A commonly held belief is that analysts primarily...