Understanding Analysts Forecasts

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Louth, R. J., Joos, P., Satchell, S. E., Weyns, Guy
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• الموضوعات: analysts’ reports; price forecasts; scenario prediction; jump diffusions; risk management; Accounting; Portfolio and Security Analysis
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1184; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2183/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

The purpose of this paper is to model analysts’ forecasts. The paper differs from the previous research in that we do not focus on how accurate these predictions may be. Accuracy may indeed be an important quality but we argue instead that another equally important aspect of the analysts’ job is to...