Mark T Bradshaw

Boston College

Associate Professor

140 Commonwealth Avenue

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

United States

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1.

Analysts’ Forecasts: What Do We Know after Decades of Work?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Jul 2011
Mark T Bradshaw
Boston College
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analyst forecasts, capital markets, suggestions for future research

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Earnings Quality and Financial Reporting Credibility: An Empirical Investigation

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Aug 1999
Mark T Bradshaw, Scott A. Richardson and Richard G. Sloan
Boston College, London Business School and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
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Pump and Dump: An Empirical Analysis of the Relation between Corporate Financing Activities and Sell-Side Analyst Research

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 May 2003
Mark T Bradshaw, Scott A. Richardson and Richard G. Sloan
Boston College, London Business School and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
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External Financing, Sell-side Analysts, Capital Markets, Market Efficiency

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How Do Analysts Use Their Earnings Forecasts in Generating Stock Recommendations?

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How Do Analysts Use Their Earnings Forecasts in Generating Stock Recommendations?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Feb 2001
Mark T Bradshaw
Boston College
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Stock Recommendations, Earnings Forecasts, Valuation, Residual Income Model, PEG

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Stock recommendations, Earnings forecasts, Valuation, Residual income model, PEG, Earnings growth

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Gaap Versus the Street: An Empirical Assessment of Two Alternative Definitions of Earnings

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Gaap Versus the Street: An Empirical Assessment of Two Alternative Definitions of Earnings

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Aug 2000
Mark T Bradshaw, Matthew Moberg and Richard G. Sloan
Boston College, Franklin Resources, Inc. and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
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Earnings, analyst forecasts, earnings management, managerial discretion

Gaap Versus the Street: An Empirical Assessment of Two Alternative Definitions of Earnings

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 40, No. 1, March 2002
Posted: 20 Aug 2002 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010
Mark T Bradshaw and Richard G. Sloan
Boston College and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting

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Do Sell-Side Analysts Exhibit Differential Target Price Forecasting Ability?

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Do Sell-Side Analysts Exhibit Differential Target Price Forecasting Ability?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2014
Mark T Bradshaw, Lawrence D. Brown and Kelly Huang
Boston College, Temple University - Department of Accounting and Florida International University
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Analysts, Target Prices, Earnings Forecasts, Valuation

Do Sell-Side Analysts Exhibit Differential Target Price Forecasting Ability?

Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2013
Posted: 08 Dec 2014
Mark T Bradshaw, Lawrence D. Brown and Kelly Huang
Boston College, Temple University - Department of Accounting and Florida International University

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Analysts, Target Prices, Earnings Forecasts, Valuation

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The Relation between Corporate Financing Activities, Analysts' Forecasts and Stock Returns

Journal of Accounting and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 May 2006
Mark T Bradshaw, Scott A. Richardson and Richard G. Sloan
Boston College, London Business School and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
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Financing, Sell-side analysts, Capital markets, Market efficiency

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Financial Analysts and Their Contribution to Well-Functioning Capital Markets

(2017) Foundations and Trends® in Accounting: Vol. 11: No. 3, pp 119-191. DOI/10.1561/1400000042
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2018
Mark T Bradshaw, Yonca Ertimur and Patricia C. O'Brien
Boston College, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting and University of Waterloo
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Agency Costs and Tax Planning when the Government is a Major Shareholder

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2018
Mark T Bradshaw, Guanmin Liao and Mark (Shuai) Ma
Boston College, Renmin University of China - School of Business and University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business
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Tax Avoidance, Ownership Structure, Agency Conflict, China, Incentives

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The Use of Target Prices to Justify Sell-Side Analysts' Stock Recommendations

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The Use of Target Prices to Justify Sell-Side Analysts' Stock Recommendations

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Apr 2002
Mark T Bradshaw
Boston College
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Target prices, Valuation, Stock recommendations, Earnings forecasts, Sell-side financial analysts, Long-term growth, Price-to-earnings ratio, PEG

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A Re-Examination of Analysts’ Superiority over Time-Series Forecasts of Annual Earnings

Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2012
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012
Mark T Bradshaw, Michael S. Drake, James N. Myers and Linda A. Myers
Boston College, Brigham Young University - Marriott School, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - College of Business Administration and University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business, Accounting and Information Management
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analyst forecasts, earnings per share, time-series forecasts, earnings forecasts, earnings expectations

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Are Detailed Accounting Standards Sufficient to Ensure Compliance? Evidence from Non-U.S. Firms Adopting Us Gaap

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 May 2002
Mark T Bradshaw and Gregory S. Miller
Boston College and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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accounting choice, accounting standards, international accounting, international financial reporting, US GAAP

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Soft Information in the Financial Press and Analyst Revisions

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Nov 2020
Mark T Bradshaw, Brandon Lock, Xue Wang and Dexin Zhou
Boston College, Baruch College, CUNY, Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business and City University of New York, Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business - Department of Economics and Finance
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media, analysts, analyst revisions, tone, soft and hard news

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Accounting Choice, Home Bias, and Us Investment in Non-Us Firms

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Accounting Choice, Home Bias, and Us Investment in Non-Us Firms

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Jan 2003
Mark T Bradshaw, Brian J. Bushee and Gregory S. Miller
Boston College, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Accounting Choice, Institutional Investors, US GAAP, Home Bias

Accounting Choice, Home Bias, and Us Investment in Non-Us Firms

Posted: 03 Jun 2004
Mark T Bradshaw, Brian J. Bushee and Gregory S. Miller
Boston College, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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Accounting Choice, Institutional Investors, US GAAP, Home Bias

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Response by the Financial Reporting Policy Committee of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association to the SEC Release: Acceptance from Foreign Private Issuers of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards Without Reconciliation to U.S. GAAP

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Jan 2008
Patrick E. Hopkins, Christine Botosan, Mark T Bradshaw, Carolyn M. Callahan, Jack T. Ciesielski, David B. Farber, Mark J. Kohlbeck, Leslie D. Hodder, Bob Laux, Thomas L. Stober, Phillip C. Stocken and Teri Lombardi Yohn
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Boston College, University of Louisville - College of Business, R.G. Associates, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Florida Atlantic University - School of Accounting, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting, Microsoft Corporation, University of Notre Dame - Department of Accountancy, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Emory University Goizueta Business School
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International Accounting, US GAAP Reconciliation, Foreign Private Issuers

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Analysts’ GAAP Earnings Forecasts and Their Implications for Accounting Research

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2018
Mark T Bradshaw, Theodore E. Christensen, Kurt H. Gee and Benjamin C. Whipple
Boston College, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of AccountingUniversity of Georgia, The Ohio State University and University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business
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Measurement error; Earnings expectations; Analysts’ forecasts; GAAP forecasts; Non-GAAP earnings; Street earnings; Earnings surprise; Meet-or-beat

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Opacity, Crash Risk, and the Option Smirk Curve

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2010
Mark T Bradshaw, Amy P. Hutton, Alan J. Marcus and Hassan Tehranian
Boston College, Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Boston College - Department of Finance and Boston College - Department of Finance
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option pricing, earnings management, crash risk, transparency, opacity, smirk

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Analyst Dividend Forecasts and Their Usefulness to Investors: International Evidence

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2021
Pawel Bilinski and Mark T Bradshaw
Bayes Business School, City University London and Boston College
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analyst dividend forecasts; dividend forecast accuracy; information content of dividend forecasts

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The Impact of Earnings Announcements on a Firm's Information Environment

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2025
Mark T Bradshaw, Marlene Plumlee, Benjamin C. Whipple and Teri Lombardi Yohn
Boston College, University of Utah - School of Accounting, University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business and Emory University Goizueta Business School
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Brokerage House IPOs and Analyst Forecast Quality

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 May 2022
Mark T Bradshaw, Michael S. Drake, Joseph Pacelli and Brady J. Twedt
Boston College, Brigham Young University - Marriott School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting
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IPO, Financial analyst, Forecast quality

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The Effects of Analyst-Country Institutions on Biased Research: Evidence from Target Prices

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The Effects of Analyst-Country Institutions on Biased Research: Evidence from Target Prices

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Oct 2018
Mark T Bradshaw, Alan Guoming Huang and Hongping Tan
Boston College, University of Waterloo and McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management
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financial analyst, target price, optimism, analyst country, institutional infrastructure, investor protection, legal enforcement, self-serving behavior, stock returns

The Effects of Analyst‐Country Institutions on Biased Research: Evidence from Target Prices

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2019
Posted: 13 Jun 2019
Mark T Bradshaw, Alan Guoming Huang and Hongping Tan
Boston College, University of Waterloo and McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management

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financial analyst; target price; optimism; analyst country; institutional infrastructure; investor protection; legal enforcement; self-serving behavior; stock returns

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A Discussion of 'Do Managers Use Earnings Guidance to Influence Street Earnings Exclusions?'

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Apr 2011
Mark T Bradshaw
Boston College
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Street earnings, Earnings guidance, Special items, Pro forma guidance, Analyst forecasts

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The Whisper Before the Shout: Market Consequences of Implied versus Actual Recommendations Revisions

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Mar 2025
Mark T Bradshaw, Jared Flake, Charles (Chad) Ham and Mark Piorkowski
Boston College, Boise State University, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
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Sell-Side Analysts, Stock Recommendations, Analyst Reports

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Chapter 17 The Role of Analysts in the Financial Reporting Environment

Forthcoming. Handbook on the Financial Reporting Environment (edited by W. Ge, A. Koester, and S. McVay, 2025), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Mar 2025
Mark T Bradshaw and Andrew C. Call
Boston College and Marshall School of Business - University of Southern California
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A Discussion of 'Assessing the Relative Informativeness and Permanence of Pro Forma Earnings and Gaap Operating Earnings'

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 36, Nos. 1-3, pp. 321-336, December 2003
Posted: 28 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010
Mark T Bradshaw
Boston College

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pro forma earnings, information content of earnings, persistence of earnings, analysts' forecasts

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Do Analysts and Auditors Use Information in Accruals?

Posted: 03 Dec 2001
Mark T Bradshaw, Scott A. Richardson and Richard G. Sloan
Boston College, London Business School and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting

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Accruals, Analysts, Auditors, Capital markets