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
Online Access:View Fulltext in Publisher
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520 3 |a 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 accurate, frequent, and informative earnings forecasts and recommendations for firms ranked higher within her portfolio based on proxies for importance to institutions. A firm's relative rank widely varies across analysts, but its information environment improves when a larger proportion of analysts consider it to be relatively important. Analysts experience more favorable career outcomes when strategically allocating their efforts. © 2018 The Author(s). 
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700 1 |a Jiang, F.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, R.  |e author 
700 1 |a Xie, F.  |e author 
773 |t Review of Financial Studies