Individual or team analyst reports? The organization of analyst research activities

• Main Authors: CHEN, Xia, JIA, Ning, WANG, Dan.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2025
• Subjects: individual analysts; analyst team; client interests; corporate events; research resource allocation; Accounting; Asian Studies; Corporate Finance; Portfolio and Security Analysis
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/2058; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/3085/viewcontent/Analyst_Team_Paper_SSRN_combined.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Given the importance of research resource allocation within brokerage firms, we examine key factors that influence the issuance of individual vs. team analyst reports. Using a comprehensive sample of analyst reports from China for the 2008-2021 period, we find that this decision is influenced by (1)...