KnowledgeWorks@UB: Recent submissions
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An Intraweek Seasonality in the Implied Volatilities of Individual and Index Options
(Wiley, 1991)This paper studies intraweek seasonalities in the implied volatilities of options on stock market indices. One-way analysis of variance isolates the daily behavior of implied volatilities. The differential between call ... -
The Efficient Market Hypothesis in Personal Finance: Choosing an Adjustable or a Fixed Rate Mortgage
(2008)Homebuyers and commercial real estate investors who obtain funds using mortgages face the choice of a fixed or an adjustable rate mortgage. Fixed rate mortgages have constant payments, but a high initial rate: adjustable ... -
The Rate Decision: Adjustable vs Fixed Rate Mortgages
(2011)Homebuyers and commercial real estate buyers who borrow funds using mortgages all must face the choice of whether to assume a fixed or an adjustable rate mortgage. Other mortgage forms with alternative characteristics are ... -
Transaction Costs And The Information Content Of Dividend Cuts
(The Clute Institute, 2011)This paper models security price reaction to dividend cut announcements in the presence of informed traders and transaction costs. A transaction costs barrier prevents the attainment of a full information equilibrium price ... -
An Examination of the Day-of-The-Week Trading Patterns of Individual and Institutional Investors
(People and Global Business Association, 2012)This study examines the day-of-the-week trading patterns of individual and institutional investors. Consistent with previous evidence, we find an increase in the proportion of trading volume accounted for by individual ... -
The Effect of Earnings Announcement Timing on Liquidity
(People and Global Business Association, 2013)The proportion of after-market-close (AMC) earnings announcements has recently increased to more than 40% of the total number of earnings announcements (Berkman & Truong, 2009). Doyle and Magilke (2009) conclude that ... -
Cognitive style and Plebe turnover at the U.S. Naval Academy
(Sage, 2005)Students entering (N = 1,134) the U.S. Naval Academy class of 2000 were administered the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory on the first day of Plebe Summer, a 7-wk. nonacademic training program completed by all entering ... -
A unified architecture for intelligent DSS
(IEEE, 1988)A unified architecture for an intelligent decision-support system (IDSS) is presented. The incorporation of the central intelligence manager (CIM) in the architecture makes the system intelligent. The CIM comprises an ... -
End-user support in information centers: A contingency perspective
(University of Pittsburgh, 1992)End-user support is one of the most important determinants of end-user computing (EUC) effectiveness. Information centers (ICs) are widely recognized as being the primary source of EUC support. Few EUC research studies ... -
Effects of LAN and Manager Characteristics on Perceived Issues of Concern for LAN Managers: The Distinctive Impact of Budget
(1993)This paper reports the perceived problems, issues, or concerns of eighty-one LAN managers surveyed in as many U.S. corporations. The most frequently perceived issues were: managing LAN capacity or coordinating LAN users, ... -
Anticipated benefits of new information systems: the role of the proposer
(ACM, 1994)The assessment of the anticipated benefits of new information systems is important to the process of information system planning. A study of the anticipated benefits of 178 projects revealed nine benefits factors: improved ... -
Impacts of End-User and Information Center Characteristics on End-User Computing Support
(Taylor & Francis, 1994)In a cross-sectional survey of 114 information centers, it was found that support needed by end-users varied with their computing sophistication and the maturity of the information center. However, information centers did ... -
Information System Cost Estimating: A Management Perspective
(Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1990)Information systems cost estimating is an important management concern. An estimate helps to cost justify individual proposals, to schedule their development, to staff them, to control and monitor their progress, and to ... -
MAKING PROMISES-THE KEY BENEFITS OF PROPOSED IS SYSTEMS
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Macro issues in the development of organizational decision support systems
(IEEE, 1995)Many tasks in the organization require organization-wide support. This support may be in the form of data, model, tools or people. A “seamless” communication environment is needed to facilitate this support. This paper ... -
Anticipating the benefits of proposed information systems
(Springer, 1995)The assessment of the anticipated benefits of new information systems (IS) is important to IS planning. A study of the anticipated benefits of 178 projects as seen by IS managers and analysts revealed nine benefit factors. ... -
Policy implications of organizational decision support systems
(IEEE, 1996)Many organizations are consolidating their data, models and information resources to create an organization wide system, called organizational decision Support system (ODSS). The paper discusses issues related to ODSSs and ... -
Personal Computing
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)The sections in this article are 1 Hardware 2 Software 3 Home-Related Computing 4 Work-Related Computing 5 End-User Computing 6 Future