商学院卓越学术讲坛2025年第6期
发布日期:2025-04-07 来源:商学院讲座题目:Being Known to Fund Managers: Seeking Visibility and Analyst Research
——Evidence from Star Analyst Voting in China (熟悉基金经理:寻求可见性的分析师研究
----来自中国明星分析师投票的证据)
主讲人:郝颖教授
讲座时间:2025年4月10日(周四)14:00-15:00
讲座地点:学院南路校区主教学楼615 会议室
主持人:窦超球探篮球比分,竞彩足球比分商学院副教授
主讲人介绍:
郝颖,博士、教授、博士生导师、北京师范大学经管学院学术委员会委员,国资国企研究中心主任。美国哥伦比亚大学商学院访问学者。财政部全国会计领军人才,人力资源和社会保障部干部教育培训专家,中国会计学会对外学术交流委员会委员,中国总会计师协会财务管理委员会委员,中国对外经济贸易会计学会理事。
作为项目负责人,郝颖教授主持了国家自然科学基金3项,教育部人文社科基金1项。近年来,作为第一作者,在《Review of Accounting Studies》 、《Financial Management》 、《Pacific Basin Finance Journal》 、《International Review of Financial Analysis 》、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《管理科学学报》、《南开管理评论》、《金融研究》、《会计研究》、《财经研究》、《中国管理科学》等国内外重要学术刊物发表论文四十余篇。获第八届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖(人文社科)。
讲座摘要:
Abstract:We examine whether and how analysts’ incentives to win the All-Star award by strategically increasing visibility among fund managers affect their research quality and career outcomes. We first document that analysts have stronger incentives to make more fund managers aware of their existence in the third calendar quarter of the year (Q3), the quarter right before star analyst voting, than in any other quarter; they issue earnings forecasts more frequently, but write research reports with a smaller average length, and are more likely to cover a new firm. We exclude several alternative explanations, including that analysts’ strategic behaviors just proxy for analyst ability and general career concern. The results are more pronounced for analysts with stronger incentives to become a star analyst, for firms with higher institutional ownership, and when analysts work for a smaller brokerage house. We refer to analyst forecasts driven by incentives to seek visibility among fund managers as Visible forecasts. We find that Visible forecasts are less accurate but bolder than peer forecasts. Visible forecasts are also associated with smaller market reactions. We further show that fund managers respond to these Visible forecasts partly: in the post-Q3, they are more likely to time their corporate site visit to coincide with when analysts issuing higher-quality Visible forecasts is visiting the firm. Lastly, we find that while issuing more accurate Visible forecasts helps analysts’ chances of attaining All-Star status, seeking visibility is also costly. In an industry with more intensive competition, analysts who issue less accurate Visible forecasts are more likely to be penalized to decline to a less prestigious brokerage house or even exit the profession. Overall, our findings document an underexplored analysts’ opportunistic practice to win the All-Star award.
摘要(中文):
我们研究了分析师通过战略性地提高基金经理的知名度来赢得全明星奖的动机是否以及如何影响他们的研究质量和职业成果。我们首先证明,分析师在今年第三季度(Q3),即明星分析师投票前的季度,比其他任何季度都更有动力让球探篮球比分,竞彩足球比分的基金经理意识到他们的存在;他们更频繁地发布盈利预测,但撰写的研究报告平均长度较小,更有可能涵盖一家新公司。我们排除了几种替代解释,包括分析师的战略行为只是分析师能力和一般职业关注的代理。对于那些有更强动力成为明星分析师的分析师、拥有更高机构所有权的公司以及为规模较小的经纪公司工作的分析师来说,结果更为明显。我们将由寻求基金经理可见性的激励因素驱动的分析师预测称为可见预测。我们发现,可见的预测不如同行预测准确,但更大胆。可见的预测也与较小的市场反应有关。我们进一步表明,基金经理对这些可见预测做出了部分回应:在第三季度后,他们更有可能将公司实地考察的时间安排在发布更高质量可见预测的分析师访问公司的时间。最后,我们发现,虽然发布更准确的可见预测有助于分析师获得全明星的机会,但寻求可见性也是昂贵的。在竞争更加激烈的行业中,发布不太准确的可见预测的分析师更有可能受到惩罚,拒绝进入不太知名的经纪公司,甚至退出该行业。总的来说,我们的研究结果记录了一个未被充分探索的分析师赢得全明星奖的机会主义行为。