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Information Content Of Revised Earnings Forecasts, Market Learning, And Analyst Behavior, Lifei Xue
Information Content Of Revised Earnings Forecasts, Market Learning, And Analyst Behavior, Lifei Xue
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In my first essay, I examine how the quality of private information and the quality of public information contained in analyst revised one-year-ahead earnings forecasts issued right after a quarterly earnings announcement affect the post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD). I find that high precision of private information contained in revised forecasts reduces the level of PEAD and that the precision of public information contained in the revised one-year-ahead earnings forecasts partially offset the reduction in PEAD. Moreover, I find the effect of precision of private information on PEAD decreases after Reg FD, which required in the year 2000 that analysts could …