Does Foreign Experience Matter for Analysts’ Forecasting Performance?

Yangyang Chen, Kaijuan Gao, Manya Wang, Leon Zolotoy, Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, School of Management, Hunan University, School of Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance

Published online on April 11, 2026

Abstract

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We study the impact of analysts’ foreign experience on their forecasting performance in emerging markets. Using a comprehensive hand-collected data set from China, we show that analysts with foreign experience tend to issue more accurate earnings ...