Information, Selective Disclosure, and Analyst Behavior

Information Uncertainty and Analyst Forecast Behavior*

Prior literature observes that information uncertainty exacerbates investor underreaction behavior. In this paper, I investigate whether, as professional investment intermediaries, sellside analysts suffer more behavioral biases in cases of greater information uncertainty. I show that greater information uncertainty predicts more positive (negative) forecast errors and subsequent forecast revis...

Dimensionality of information disclosure behavior

In studies of people’s privacy behavior, disclosure is typically measured by a total or a ratio of disclosure. In this paper, we evaluate three information disclosure datasets using a six-step statistical analysis, and show that people’s disclosure behaviors are instead multidimensional: participants’ disclosure of personal information breaks down into a number of distinct factors. Moreover, pe...

Analysis and Evaluation of Privacy Protection Behavior and Information Disclosure Concerns in Online Social Networks

Online Social Networks (OSN) becomes the largest infrastructure for social interactions like: making relationship, sharing personal experiences and service delivery. Nowadays social networks have been widely welcomed by people. Most of the researches about managing privacy protection within social networks sites (SNS), observes users as owner of their information. However, individuals cannot co...

The Behavior Analyst Today

The Behavior Analyst Today