Journal article
What Affects Individuals' Decisions to Acquire Forecasted Information?*
Abstract
Abstract. Individuals may acquire forecasted information because forecasters (e.g., analysts) possess superior information, superior forecasting abilities, or both. We conduct a series of experimental sessions to investigate individuals' information acquisition decisions. In our experimental setting, individuals are able to acquire unprocessed information (which is analogous to that used by analysts), processed information (which is analogous …
Authors
ACKERT LF; CHURCH BK; SHEHATA M
Journal
Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 379–399
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
September 1996
DOI
10.1111/j.1911-3846.1996.tb00507.x
ISSN
0823-9150