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La précision des analystes financiers en Europe : l’effet pays et l’effet secteur revisités

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  • Coën, Alain

    (Département de finance, École des sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal)

  • Desfleurs, Aurélie

    (Département de sciences comptables et fiscalité, Faculté d’administration, Université de Sherbrooke, Département des sciences comptables, Université du Québec en Outaouais)

Abstract

We analyze earnings forecasting errors made by financial analysts for 13 European countries over the 1990-2006 period. We use the Heston-Rouwenhorst approach to unravel country-, industry-, and firm-specific effects as a source of variation in financial analysts’ earnings forecast errors. We first estimate each effect with a dummy variable regression, and then decompose the variance of forecast errors into different effects. We provide evidence that the differences among countries, industrial sectors, or analyst following offer a weak explanation for differences in forecast errors. Country effects, related to absolute forecast errors, however largely dominate industry and analyst following effects on European stock markets until 2004. Focusing on forecast bias, this trend is reversed much earlier (1997). By contrast, the type of earnings – profits or losses – and variations in earnings – increases or decreases – play a significant role in the performance of financial analysts. Résumé : Nous analysons les erreurs de prévision commises par les analystes financiers pour 13 pays européens sur la période 1990-2006. Afin de mettre en évidence les effets pays, industries et ceux spécifiques à la firme comme sources de variation des erreurs de précision, nous adaptons une méthode développée par Heston et Rouwenhorst (1994) pour étudier la décomposition de la variance des rendements boursiers. Nous estimons chaque effet à l’aide d’une régression avec des variables muettes, puis nous décomposons la variance en mettant en évidence la contribution de chaque effet. Nos résultats révèlent que les différences entre les pays, secteurs industriels ou nombre d’analystes offrent une faible explication aux erreurs de prévision. Par contre, notre analyse dynamique montre clairement que l’effet pays domine de façon continue l’effet industrie et le nombre d’analystes sur les marchés financiers européens jusqu'en 2004 où un retournement de tendance est observé. Lorsque le biais de prévision est étudié, l'ordonnancement est inversé dès 1997. Par contraste, le type de bénéfice – profits ou pertes – et la variation des bénéfices – augmentation ou diminution – jouent un rôle très significatif dans la performance des analystes financiers.

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  • Coën, Alain & Desfleurs, Aurélie, 2010. "La précision des analystes financiers en Europe : l’effet pays et l’effet secteur revisités," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 86(2), pages 133-162, juin.
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