Essays on Financial Analysts

Essays on Financial Analysts
Author: Hiep Manh Nguyen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
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Financial analysts play an important role in capital markets. Through the issuance of analysis reports, they facilitate the incorporation of costly private information into security prices, supporting the informational efficiency of financial markets. Thus, understanding their behavior has important implications for firms, investors, and policy makers. Despite decades of work, there are still many open questions regarding how financial analysts produce and how these reports are influenced by their working environment.In this dissertation, we attempt at contributing to the literature of analyst behavior and its effects on the capital market by addressing several new research questions. The first two papers of this thesis try to better understand the incentives behind the well-known analyst bias and identify new sources of bias. The third paper extends into an analysis of corporate governance and the role of financial analysts in alleviating information asymmetry.

Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics

Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics
Author: Shinsuke Ikeda
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2015-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 4431555013

This book collects important contributions in behavioral economics and related topics, mainly by Japanese researchers, to provide new perspectives for the future development of economics and behavioral economics. The volume focuses especially on economic studies that examine interactions of multiple agents and/or market phenomena by using behavioral economics models. Reflecting the diverse fields of the editors, the book captures broad influences of behavioral economics on various topics in economics. Those subjects include parental altruism, economic growth and development, the relative and permanent income hypotheses, wealth distribution, asset price bubbles, auctions, search, contracts, personnel management and market efficiency and anomalies in financial markets. The chapter authors have added newly written addenda to the original articles in which they address their own subsequent works, supplementary analyses, detailed information on the underlying data and/or recent literature surveys. This will help readers to further understand recent developments in behavioral economics and related research.