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When and Where Are Informed Traders? What Is Their Relationship with Analysts in the Price Discovery Process?

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  • Natividad Blasco
  • Pilar Corredor

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The authors' aim was to analyze the influence of analysts' recommendations on the activity of informed and uninformed traders and whether such influence produces changes in the price discovery process. The analysis was carried out in the Spanish market, considered to be an ideal market given its characteristics. The authors' results indicate that although investors as a whole react to new information from analysts and their activity increases, this reaction is not independent of the type of stock. Informed traders do not increase their activity with small stocks to the same extent as uninformed investors do. Furthermore, the influence of these movements on price discovery is not significant. The results suggest that the interpretation role of analysts is more important for less accessible firms in terms of assessing their growth opportunities. This role may enhance the herding behavior of uninformed agents trading in those small titles for which they would otherwise need to invest extra time and extra money for taking profitable decisions.

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  • Natividad Blasco & Pilar Corredor, 2016. "When and Where Are Informed Traders? What Is Their Relationship with Analysts in the Price Discovery Process?," Journal of Behavioral Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 352-364, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:hbhfxx:v:17:y:2016:i:4:p:352-364
    DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2016.1238374
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    1. Giuseppe Pernagallo & Benedetto Torrisi, 2020. "A theory of information overload applied to perfectly efficient financial markets," Review of Behavioral Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 14(2), pages 223-236, October.

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