IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/quantf/v22y2022i11p2125-2137.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Peer effects in professional analysts’ choice of their portfolio of companies

Author

Listed:
  • Victor Fang
  • Lutz Honvehlmann
  • Thomas Lux

Abstract

Analysts’ earnings forecasts are well known to be affected by herding behavior. This article provides evidence that herding might also play a role in analysts’ choice of coverage portfolio. Using the I/B/E/S database we show that there are strong peer effects at work in analysts’ choice of their portfolio of companies that go beyond specialization in teams and for certain sectors. To identify the factors driving these findings, we adopt a model of link formation within the bipartite network defined by analyst-company pairs. The strongest influence on imitation comes from the performance of other analysts. In contrast, professional experience and other individual characteristics seem to exert only a minor influence.

Suggested Citation

  • Victor Fang & Lutz Honvehlmann & Thomas Lux, 2022. "Peer effects in professional analysts’ choice of their portfolio of companies," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(11), pages 2125-2137, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:quantf:v:22:y:2022:i:11:p:2125-2137
    DOI: 10.1080/14697688.2022.2119881
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14697688.2022.2119881
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14697688.2022.2119881?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:quantf:v:22:y:2022:i:11:p:2125-2137. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RQUF20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.