• DOI:10.2307/2491389
Corpus ID: 155485690

Analysts' Interim Earnings Forecasts: Evidence on the Forecasting Process

@article{Kang1994AnalystsIE,
  title={Analysts' Interim Earnings Forecasts: Evidence on the Forecasting Process},
  author={Sok-Hyon Kang and J. O'Brien and K. Sivaramakrishnan},
  journal={Journal of Accounting Research},
  year={1994},
  volume={32},
  pages={103-112}
}

Sok-Hyon Kang, J. O'Brien, K. Sivaramakrishnan

Published 1994

Economics

Journal of Accounting Research

Existing empirical evidence indicates that analyst forecasts of corporate earnings do not meet the strict rationality standards prescribed by econometric tests of the rational expectations hypothesis.1 In this paper, we address the question of whether the expectation formation process underlying analyst forecasts is adaptive, or whether these forecasts are influenced by noninformational factors, such as incentives arising from the market for their forecasts (O'Brien [1988], Lin and McNichols… CONTINUE READING

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