기업의 지리적 위치와 재무분석가의 수 및 이익예측오차와의 관계|RISS 상세보기

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This study investigates the association between firm location and analysts following as well as direction of the errors included in the earnings forecasts issued by financial analysts. Firm location is measured by an indicator variable representing whether the firm's headquarter is located in urban (i.e., urban firms) or rural (i.e., rural firms) areas. The error in the earnings forecasts indicates the difference between financial analysts' forecasts issued and corresponding actual ex post earnings of the firms.
Up to now, there has been voluminous research on the effect of location of various organizations or individuals with respect to diverse issues. For example, Coval and Moskowitz(1999), Loughran and Schultz(2004), Ivkovic and Weisbenner(2005), Kang and Kim(2008), and Teo(2009) report that individual or institutional investors are more likely to invest in firms located nearby. Because most of investors live in urban areas and headquarters of the firms are also more likely to be located in the urban areas, this kind of close distance between investors (and other stakeholders)and firms can influence the decision making of the investors with respect to the firm(Loughran and Schultz 2004). Similarly, Kedia and Rajgopal(2006) reports that the distance between regulators and firms are closely related to the degree of monitoring and thus the probability that a firm commit accounting fraud. Choi et al.(2006) also argues that the distance between auditors and the client firms are also related to both audit quality and audit fees. These are clear evidence supporting the argument that geographical location is an important factor on management decision as well as investor's decision.
In Korean context, the firms located in Seoul or Kyunggi (including Incheon) areas are surrounded by majority of investors who live nearby. The population in this area enjoy greater income and spending than the population live in other areas in Korea. These urban investors and stakeholders pay close attention to the behaviors of the firms and are likely to invest in the firms located nearby. In contrast, there are not many people who live in rural areas and they are less likely to invest in stock market than the people who live in urban areas do(Nam and Choi 2009).
As a result, one may say that urban firms are more likely to communicate closely with urban population than rural firms do so with rural population.
Because urban investors have great interest in urban firms, they may demand more information on the urban firms than rural firms. Lang and Lundholm(1996) and Barth et al.(2001) suggest that financial analysts are more likely to follow a firms that investors have greater interests in and update their forecast for those firms. Thus, if a firm's urban location induce greater interests of investors, it is expected that the number of analysts following the firm increases for the urban firms. We empirically test this prediction as the first hypothesis.
Next, we examine whether there exist any association between the firm location and errors in analysts' earnings forecasts. Prior studies in analysts' forecast argue that firms that receive greater attention from outside parties may have incentives to provide more affirmative and optimistic information to please the outsiders(Graham et al. 2005). In addition, from the view point of financial analysts, they compete with other analysts and closely observed by outside stakeholders who want more information on the firm. Thus, they have incentives to seek for more accurate information and thus need to maintain close relationship with firms to receive up－to－date information. Das et al.(9998) suggests that one way for a financial analyst to maintain a close relationship with the firm is to issue optimistic forecasts in the long run. If this explanation is true, it is expected that analysts' earnings forecasts for urban firms are more likely to be biased optimistically compared with those for rural firms. ...

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