This study examines whether disruptive life events affect how analysts assess risk. We
exploit the staggered arrival of hurricanes between 1996 and 2009 at analysts' office …

Risk forecasting is crucial for informed investment decision-making. Moreover, the salience
of investment risk increases during economically uncertain times. In this paper, we study …

Consensus analyst target prices are widely available online at no cost to investors. In this
paper, we examine how the amount of dispersion in the individual target prices comprising …

We investigate the use and performance of residual income (RI) valuation methods by US
sell-side equity analysts in a small-sample manner wherein we extract the rich details of …

We study the mispricing information present in the target prices of US and international
analysts. We hypothesize that asymmetry in the value-relevance of the information that …

Existing measures of valuation uncertainty are indirect or available for limited samples. We
use an accounting-based valuation model to estimate uncertainty as reflected in the shape …

Consensus analyst target prices are widely available online at no cost to investors. In this
paper we examine how the amount of dispersion in the individual target prices comprising …

This study explores the valuation frameworks that financial analysts use to estimate the
value of the firms based on their unreported intangible assets. We expect that the presence …

We study how sell-side analysts map both quantitative and qualitative information from
earnings conference calls into their forecasts of fundamental firm risk. We find that analysts …

This thesis focuses on the effect of Solvency II adoption by EU/EEA insurance firms on sell-
side analysts' research practices and information environment. Solvency II framework was …