Analyst career concerns, effort allocation, and firms' information environment

Analysts strategically allocate more effort to portfolio firms that are relatively more important to their careers. Thus, the other firms the analysts cover indirectly affect a firm's information environment. Controlling for analyst and firm characteristics, we find that an analyst makes more a...

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Main Authors: Harford, J. (Author), Jiang, F. (Author), Wang, R. (Author), Xie, F. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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