Earnings Management, Forecast Guidance and the Banking Crisis
The European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
46 Pages Posted: 3 Nov 2011 Last revised: 18 Nov 2014
Date Written: November 3, 2011
Abstract
This paper studies earnings management and forecast guidance activities of European banks between 2004 and 2008. Using 22,564 analyst forecasts for 55 banks we find that the proportion of banks hitting or beating analyst consensus fell from 68.22% pre-crisis to 28.13% during the crisis. Banks enjoy higher CARs when they hit analyst consensus only in the crisis. Earnings management is evident pre- but not during the crisis – it has no CAR effects. Forecast guidance increases the probability of hitting benchmark earnings and during the crisis yields higher CARs. Earnings management and forecast guidance act as complements in the crisis period.
JEL Classification: G21, M40, M41
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