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Exchange‐Sponsored Analyst Coverage

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  • Ru (Tina) Gao
  • Lakshmanan Shivakumar
  • Baljit K. Sidhu

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Several major stock exchanges, including the NASDAQ and NYSE Euronext, have recently embarked on schemes to sponsor and promote analyst coverage for firms listed on their exchanges. We evaluate the efficacy of one such scheme pioneered by the Singapore Exchange (SGX). We find that sponsored analysts produce forecasts with similar bias, but lower accuracy than those issued by analysts voluntarily following a firm. In analyses that control for self‐selection into the SGX Scheme, we find that sponsored firms enjoy at best minor improvements in their information environments and stock liquidity. Any benefits accruing from the scheme are insufficient to make sponsored firms fully comparable to those of firms with voluntary analyst following on the measured attributes. Plusieurs bourses de valeurs importantes, dont le NASDAQ et le groupe boursier NYSE Euronext, se sont récemment engagées dans des programmes visant à commanditer et promouvoir le suivi par les analystes des sociétés inscrites à leur cote. Les auteurs évaluent l'efficacité du premier en date de ces programmes, lancé par la Bourse de Singapour (SGX). Ils constatent que les analystes commandités produisent des prévisions présentant des distorsions similaires mais une exactitude moins grande que celles des analystes dont le suivi est volontaire. Les analyses du programme de la SGX dans lesquelles les auteurs contrôlent l'autosélection révèlent que les sociétés dont le suivi est commandité connaissent au mieux des améliorations mineures de leur environnement d'information et de la liquidité de leurs actions. Quels qu'ils soient, les avantages découlant du programme sont insuffisants pour amener les sociétés dont le suivi est commandité sur un pied d’égalité avec celles dont les paramètres observables sont volontairement suivis par les analystes.

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  • Ru (Tina) Gao & Lakshmanan Shivakumar & Baljit K. Sidhu, 2018. "Exchange‐Sponsored Analyst Coverage," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(2), pages 734-766, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:2:p:734-766
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12410
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