Further Evidence on the Relation Between Analysts' Forecast Dispersion and Stock Returns

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Customer Satisfaction, Analyst Stock Recommendations, and Firm Value (2010, unknown): “Barron, Stanford, and Yu 2009 !”
Trading Volume Around Earnings Announcements and Other Financial Reports: Theory, Research Design, Empirical Evidence, and Directions for Future Research (2010, unknown): “Ziebart’s (1990) hypothesis that increases in the dispersion of investor beliefs spur trading at earnings announcements reflects the intuition in Beaver (1968) and Karpoff (1986).”
Corporate Social Responsibility Report Narratives and Analyst Forecast Accuracy (2017, background): “Second, we focus on analysts forecast accuracy as the proxy for capital market benefits, and not reduced forecast dispersion, because forecast dispersion likely captures a myriad of constructs—disagreements among investors, noise in analysts’ private signals, and noise in the analysts’ interpretatio”
Survey Measurement of Probabilistic Macroeconomic Expectations: Progress and Promise (2017, unknown): “(See, e.g., Cukierman and Wachtel 1979; Levi and Makin 1979, 1980; Makin 1982; Brenner and Landskroner 1983; Hahm and Steigerwald 1999; Hayford 2000; Giordani and Söderlind 2003; Johnson 2004; Barron, Stanford, and Yu 2009; Güntay and Hackbarth 2010; Bachmann, Elstner, and Sims 2013.)”