Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
9-2008
Abstract
We find that local analyst recommendations are systematically more optimistic than foreign analyst recommendations in emerging markets. The effects of this novel home bias among local analysts overwhelm any information asymmetry between foreign and local analysts. Consequently, local analyst upgrades underperform foreign analyst upgrades, while local analyst downgrades outperform foreign analyst downgrades. Neither foreign investors, local institutions, nor retail investors appear to be fully cognizant of this bias. Trade reactions suggest that foreign investors overestimate the bias in foreign analyst recommendations while local institutions underestimate the bias in local analyst recommendations. These results are pervasive across countries, time periods, and stock groupings, and can be traced to investment banking pressure.
Discipline
Finance and Financial Management | Portfolio and Security Analysis
Research Areas
Finance
Areas of Excellence
Finance and Financial Markets
Publication
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Volume
43
Issue
3
First Page
685
Last Page
716
ISSN
0022-1090
Identifier
10.1017/S0022109000004257
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation
LAI, Sandy and TEO, Melvyn.
Home Biased Analysts in Emerging Markets. (2008). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 43, (3), 685-716. Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2608
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109000004257