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Showing 1 to 20 of 716 for “"Analysts"”.
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Analysts' Private Connections
In this dissertation, I examine how analysts’ private connections to external peers across brokerages affect the quality of their research. I find that analysts with private connections (i.e., who are connected to external peers via past employment ties and covering the same firm) issue more …
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Essays on Sell-Side Analysts
Broadly, this study focuses on roles of sell-side analysts and examines the determinants and consequences of information discovery and stock timing roles by sell-side analysts. We also re-examine reiterations of prior recommendations by sell-side analysts. In Chapter 1, the contribution is to …
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Systems analysts and the restructuring of work.
… and examines the role of engineers and systems analysts in designing and delivering new technologies and work systems.<br/><br/>On the basis of fieldwork observations and detailed cross sectoral interviewing of over three hundred personnel in over sixty organisations, the thesis documents the …
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Income Classification Shifting and Financial Analysts’ Forecasts
… they believe the market in general and financial analysts in particular focus on core earnings. If financial analysts are experts in forecasting permanent earnings, they should be expected to identify reported core earnings that have been inflated through classification shifting and revise their …
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The accuracy of financial analysts and market response
Financial analysts play an intermediary role in financial markets, resulting in two steps for information to be fully absorbed into the stock price: analysts’ reaction to information, and investors’ reaction to analysts’ recommendations. Thus any observed inefficiency in stock pricing could result …
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Empirical evaluation of South African share analysts’ performance
… recommendations of South African share analysts provide any value to an investor in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The study focuses on the creation of a portfolio based on the recommendations by analysts between December 2002 and July 2010. The monthly returns and respective …
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The incremental predictive ability of individual financial analysts
"Financial analysts are among the most influential group of users of financial accounting information. Because the FASB has advocated usefulness as the ""overriding criterion"" (FASB, 1980, p.26) to judge accounting choices, accountants have a stake in understanding this important group of …
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Analysts' forecast as rational expectations of company earnings
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-125).
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Market Reactions To Analysts' Forecasts And Mandatory Disclosures
… investigate the impact and importance of analysts' forecasts. The third manuscript documents the impact of eliminating an important accounting disclosure. This dissertation makes the following contributions to the accounting literature. The first manuscript documents that investor …
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Modelling The World : The Social Constructions Of Systems Analysts
This dissertation is concerned with a case study of system dynamics, a well-known simulation modelling methodology, and its implicit theory of social system behaviour. System dynamics is policy oriented and is directed towards the control and management of social systems. It originally evolved in …
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Disclosure quality in capital markets from the perspective of analysts
… quality from the perspective of the financial analysts, a sophisticated user group. This thesis presents a comprehensive view of analysts’ evaluations of disclosure quality. I investigate capital market reaction when firms experience a sustained decrease in analyst disclosure ratings. The …
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Identifying Operations Research Systems Analysts' Technical Competencies: A Delphi Approach
… U.S. Army Operations Research Systems Analysts (FA49s) have only increased. Tomorrow's joint operating environment demands U.S. Army FA49s to be ingenious, proactive, and multi-talented; proficient in their core competencies as military leaders as well as being proficient in their …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Analysts on Financial Markets
… studies three different topics on the impact of analysts on financial markets. The first chapter documents that the price of analysts’ dispersion risk in the cross-section of stock returns changes over time, in particular, turns positive in periods of high analyst dispersion. Our result holds using …
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Review of assessment and training strategies for preservice behavior analysts.
… a strategy to teach preservice behavior analysts to graph, and a discussion focused on how an analysis of the education and training of these students is warranted in order to fit within the conceptual systems of the discipline. The review of the literature was conducted to identify …
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Factors that affect case tools usage by systems developers and analysts
… affect CASE tools usage by system developers and analysts. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) developed by Davis (1989) is used as the main building block. Certain modifications are made to the original TAM resulting in a final model that investigates the effect of four main factors on CASE …
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Analysts' long-term growth forecasts and the post-earnings-announcement drift
I examine the relation between the presence of analysts’ long-term growth (LTG) forecasts and the post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD). Using a sample of firm-quarters from 1995 to 2013, I find that the magnitude of PEAD is significantly smaller for firms with LTG forecasts. The relationship …
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Narrative Maps: A Computational Model to Support Analysts in Narrative Sensemaking
… are a key element of the sensemaking process of analysts. In this work, we propose a narrative model and visualization method to aid analysts with this process. In particular, we propose the narrative maps framework—an event-based representation that uses a directed acyclic graph to represent the …
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