ROGER T. KELLEHER, BEHAVIOR ANALYST

The Behavior Analyst Today

The Behavior Analyst Today

The Behavior Analyst Today

Previous approaches to functional assessment of tic and habit disorders have centred largely around environmental contingencies or interceptive sensory processes as positive reinforcers. The current article argues rather that ongoing telic behavioral activity is functionally linked to tic onset and so type of behavioral activity and overall action plan at the time of ticcing should also be asse...

Information Uncertainty and Analyst Forecast Behavior*

Prior literature observes that information uncertainty exacerbates investor underreaction behavior. In this paper, I investigate whether, as professional investment intermediaries, sellside analysts suffer more behavioral biases in cases of greater information uncertainty. I show that greater information uncertainty predicts more positive (negative) forecast errors and subsequent forecast revis...

Analyst Behavior Following IPOs: The “Bubble Period” Evidence

We examine over 7,400 analyst recommendations for IPO firms during 1999-2000. We find that initiations at the end of the quiet period come almost exclusively from the analysts of managing underwriters while initiations afterwards are predominantly from unaffiliated analysts. Once we control for the effect of quiet period versus later initiations, we find little evidence of a distinction between...