Affiliation:
1. The George Washington University
2. Texas A&M University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Does an equity analyst's trust in others impact the processing of information from outside sources? We investigate this question using a measure of trust based on surveys conducted in analysts' countries of origin. We find that more trusting analysts not only react faster to management guidance and earnings announcements, they also weight information from management and other analysts more heavily than less trusting analysts. This results in a nonlinear inverted-U relationship with forecast accuracy. Analysts with low trust place too little weight on outside information, while analysts with high trust place too much weight and are, thus, both less accurate than “medium” trust analysts. This effect on accuracy is weaker for those with more on-the-job experience, indicating that analysts rely less on their cultural trust beliefs as they learn more about the quality of information sources.
JEL Classifications: M41; G17.
Data Availability: Data are available from the sources cited in the text.
Publisher
American Accounting Association
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Finance,Accounting
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