The effects of CSR performance on analyst forecast bias and forecast dispersion.

We examine the relationship between CSR performance measures and analysts’ earnings forecast bias and dispersion. Our empirical findings reveal that current and historical CSR concerns are associated with negative forecast bias while current CSR strengths are related to positive forecast bias. Addit...

وصف كامل

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Phua, Kenny Jing Wen., Teo, Yao Yang., Chan, Jian Rong.
مؤلفون آخرون: Chong Beng Soon
التنسيق: Final Year Project
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2013
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51784
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
لا توجد وسوم, كن أول من يضع وسما على هذه التسجيلة!
المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University
اللغة: English
الوصف
الملخص:We examine the relationship between CSR performance measures and analysts’ earnings forecast bias and dispersion. Our empirical findings reveal that current and historical CSR concerns are associated with negative forecast bias while current CSR strengths are related to positive forecast bias. Additionally, we find that forecast dispersion increases with current and historical concerns while an inverse relationship is observed between forecast dispersion and current strengths. The effect of historical strengths is statistically indistinguishable from zero in both forecast bias and dispersion. Separately, only current concerns yield a statistically significant (and positive) association with absolute forecast error. The results are robust to various control factors known to affect forecast characteristics.