Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
This study examines the impact of political connections on analyst forecast activities, namely, analysts’ forecast accuracy, analysts’ forecast dispersion and analysts’ following. Further, this study investigates the association between analysts’ forecast activities and corporate governance attribut...
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2023
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| author | Alqahtani, Abdulaziz Saad J |
| author_facet | Alqahtani, Abdulaziz Saad J |
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| description | This study examines the impact of political connections on analyst forecast activities, namely, analysts’ forecast accuracy, analysts’ forecast dispersion and analysts’ following. Further, this study investigates the association between analysts’ forecast activities and corporate governance attributes: institutional ownership, the board size, board independence and audit committee independence. Next, this study explores corporate governance's role in mitigating political connections' impact on analysts’ forecast activities. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-919472025-06-16T03:26:28Z Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia Alqahtani, Abdulaziz Saad J This study examines the impact of political connections on analyst forecast activities, namely, analysts’ forecast accuracy, analysts’ forecast dispersion and analysts’ following. Further, this study investigates the association between analysts’ forecast activities and corporate governance attributes: institutional ownership, the board size, board independence and audit committee independence. Next, this study explores corporate governance's role in mitigating political connections' impact on analysts’ forecast activities. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91947 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Alqahtani, Abdulaziz Saad J Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia |
| title | Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia |
| title_full | Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia |
| title_fullStr | Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia |
| title_short | Analysts’ Forecast Properties, Political Connection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia |
| title_sort | analysts’ forecast properties, political connection and corporate governance: evidence from saudi arabia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91947 |