AbstractsBusiness Management & Administration

Three Essays on Information Intermediaries in Financial Markets

by Hamdi Driss




Institution: York University
Department:
Year: 2015
Keywords: Finance
Record ID: 2062556
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/28222


Abstract

This dissertation examines novel issues related to information intermediaries in financial markets and consists of three essays on the following three distinct topics: (1) the monitoring role of credit rating agencies, (2) heterogeneity in the influence of sell-side analyst recommendation changes, and (3) the information flow from sell-side analysts to their affiliated asset managers.