A Review of Research Related to Financial Analysts' Forecasts and Stock Recommendations
117 Pages
Posted: 16 Nov 2005
Last revised: 27 Apr 2010
University of Miami - Department of Accounting
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting
College of William & Mary
Date Written: June 30, 2008
Abstract
This paper reviews research regarding the role of financial analysts in capital markets. The paper builds on the perspectives provided by Schipper (1991) and Brown (1993). We categorize papers published mainly since 1992 and selectively discuss aspects of these papers that address or suggest key research topics of ongoing interest in seven broad areas: analysts' decision processes, the determinants of analyst expertise and distributions of individual analysts' forecasts, the informativeness of analysts' research outputs, analyst and market efficiency with respect to information, effects of analysts' economic incentives on their research outputs, effects of the institutional and regulatory environment (including cross-country comparisons), and the limitations of databases and various research paradigms.
Keywords: Financial analyst forecasts, analyst recommendations
JEL Classification: G29, G14, G15, M41, M47
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Ramnath, Sundaresh and Rock, Steve and Shane, Philip B., A Review of Research Related to Financial Analysts' Forecasts and Stock Recommendations (June 30, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=848248 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.848248
