Social skills are important but difficult to measure. So far, few empirical studies have
examined the effect of social skills on the performance of professionals. Using the number of …

This study establishes extensive analyst collaboration networks based on the coauthorships
of analysts' research reports in Chinese financial markets. We focus on the centrality of …

We investigate whether the performance commitments in Chinese reverse merger (RM)
transactions affect the properties of analyst earnings forecasts. All RM firms in China are …

We examine whether and how media coverage of firms' environment, social, and
governance (ESG) incidents is associated with analyst coverage and forecasts. We …

Recent research on sell‐side analysts emphasizes the centrality of social ties and social
interactions to what they do. However, we know little about how analysts create or maintain …

We examine the effect of fund managers' voting on the optimistic bias of sell-side analysts by
exploiting the exogenous event of New Fortune Magazine suspending the Sixteenth Star …

We investigate the impact of analyst status on recommendation performance. Using 281,886
analyst recommendations from Chinese stock markets from 2007 to 2022, we employ a …

We examine the association between financial analysts' industrial concentration and the
quality of their earnings forecasts. We find that analysts' forecast quality, measured by …

We study interdepartment knowledge sharing in an investment research setting where the
benefits are potentially significant for the brokerage and the capital market, but so are the …

This paper explores how analysts' forecasting behaviour is related to their centrality within a
dynamic information network. In this network, analysts who issued coverage reports on the …