Do Analysts Herd? An Analysis of Recommendations and Market Reactions

46 Pages Posted: 25 Mar 2008

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Narasimhan Jegadeesh

Emory University - Department of Finance

Woojin Kim

Seoul National University - Business School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: January 2008

Abstract

This paper develops and implements a new test to investigate whether sell-side analysts herd around the consensus when they make stock recommendations. Our empirical results support the herding hypothesis. Stock price reactions following recommendation revisions are stronger when the new recommendation is away from the consensus than when it is closer to it, indicating that the market recognizes analysts' tendency to herd. We find that analysts from larger brokerages and analysts following stocks with smaller dispersion across recommendations are more likely to herd.

Keywords: herding, market efficiency, private information

JEL Classification: G14, G20, D82, D83

Suggested Citation

Jegadeesh, Narasimhan and Kim, Woojin, Do Analysts Herd? An Analysis of Recommendations and Market Reactions (January 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1107419 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1107419

Narasimhan Jegadeesh (Contact Author)

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Woojin Kim

Seoul National University - Business School ( email )

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