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JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 1-18Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.03.010
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Security analyst; Herding; News sentiment; News coverage; News dispersion
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This study investigates the impact of media on analysts' herding behavior when making stock recommendations. We find three main results. First, we find that analysts herd less when stocks are covered more in the media. Second, when the firm has negative media sentiment, analysts tend to herd more. Third, higher disagreement in the media is associated with a higher tendency to herd among analysts. These findings are robust to the confounding effect of news flows on returns as well as to alternative explanations. In addition, we find that the effect of media on the herding behavior is conditional on analyst characteristics. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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