Japanese Corporate Groupings (Keiretsu) and the Characteristics of Analysts' Forecasts

Edward B. Douthett, Jr., Kooyul Jung () and Wikil Kwak ()

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2004, vol. 23, issue 2, 79-98

Abstract: This study examines differences in the characteristics of analysts' forecasts of earnings for keiretsu and non-keiretsu firms in Japan. Japanese industrial organization is characterized by enterprise groupings, keiretsu, composed of firms in different industries, but interrelated through cross-holdings of ownership. The strong interrelations of the Japanese keiretsu have been shown to increase the monitoring of managerial performance. An alternative view of keiretsu stewardship suggests the exclusionary environment within a keiretsu creates an information monopoly, resulting in greater information asymmetry between inside and outside constituents. These two views provide opposing predictions on how keiretsu groupings potentially affect the characteristics of earnings forecasts made by analysts: increased monitoring will improve the forecast characteristics of earnings, while the opposite is true under an information monopoly.

Date: 2004
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