Using earnings conference calls to identify analysts with superior private information

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Seeing is believing: analysts’ corporate site visits (2016, background): “In contrast, analysts’ other information acquisition activities, such as hosting investor conferences and participating in conference calls, mainly entail interacting with top executives (Mayew et al. 2013; Green et al. 2014a).”
Analyst Information Discovery and Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach (2018, unknown): “6 See for example, Quinn et al. (2010), Grimmer (2010), Atkins, Rubin, Steyvers, Doeden, Baucom, and Christensen (2012), Bao and Datta (2012), Griffiths and Steyvers (2004) and Kaplan and Vakili (2013).”
Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts (2014, unknown): “…phone calls to be the most useful source of direct contact with management for the purpose of generating their earnings forecasts.12 Consistent with Mayew et al. (2013), analysts also rate the Q&A portion of earnings conference calls as a very useful (2nd highest rating) form of direct contact…”