We examine the decision of firms to list analysts covering their stocks on their corporate websites. We find that an analyst’s experience following the firm increases the likelihood of being listed but other aspects of analyst ability and reputation, such as experience in the profession, All-Star status and forecast accuracy, have no effect on the likelihood. We also find that analysts with mor...

Collaboration is the way work gets done in organisations. Therefore social networks of different types, functions and compositions have become an inevitable precondition of organisational performance. Moreover, these networks are not static, but changing over time. Organisational analysts are seeking for appropriate tools and methods supporting the information discovery processes of these dynam...

Performance metrics and their measurements are the basis of identifying and addressing computer performance related issues, from monitoring to capacity planning. IT professionals and performance analysts often face the questions of what metrics to look at, whether those metrics are related, and how to group them in meaningful way for further analysis, e.g., workload characterization. In this pa...

This paper examines various factors affecting Chinese financial analysts’ information comprehension, analyzing ability and job quality. We hypothesized that financial analysts with better educational background, more experience, superior resources provided by large brokerage firms and more information sources have better information comprehension, stronger analyzing ability, and higher job qual...

This paper examines the relationship between the board structure of UK firms and the accuracy of individual analysts’ earnings forecasts with respect to information asymmetry and agency theory. We hypothesize that managers of firms complying with the recommendations of The Code of Best Practice may have “less to hide” and, subsequently, provide more information to outsiders (including analysts)...

It is well known that equity analysts choose to cover firms about which they have favorable views. We exploit this fact and use analysts’ coverage decisions to infer their preferences for corporate policies. Next, we show that firms cater to analysts’ preferences. Firms exogenously losing analyst coverage subsequently change their corporate policies away from the preferences of the analyst that...

Introduction Meta-analysts still carry out effect size homogeneity tests on a regular basis [1,2]. Several methods have been developed to test in meta-analysis with multiple 2x2 contingency tables, and the performance of these studied literature. Jones et al. (1989) performances

This study explores whether financial analysts understand two aspects of cost behavior cost variability and cost stickiness. Since analysts’ understanding is not directly observable, we model the process of earnings prediction to generate empirically testable hypotheses regarding analysts’ comprehension of cost variability and cost stickiness. Empirical findings suggest that analysts make syste...