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Showing 1 to 20 of 271 for “"Information content"”.
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The Information Content of Discretionary Disaggregation
I examine the information content embedded in firms' decision to disaggregate financial statement line items. I find that the level of disaggregation predicts both current and future performance. I also find that significant changes in discretionary disaggregation are indicative of weak …
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Information Content and Communication in Virtual Reality
The results were that it was important to provide a mechanism for determining the subjects' visual perspective of the stimuli, but under the test conditions it was not compelling that head tracking was significantly more effective than simulated head tracking.
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On the spectral information content of vowels
This thesis explores the human perception of vowels in a consonant-vowel (CV) context by examining the data of two experiments. The first experi- ment, CV06-SWN, examines the effects of speech-weighted noise (SWN) on vowel perception. The vowels examined are /A/, /o/, /u/, /U/, /E/, /æ/, /3~/, and …
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The information content of interim financial reports: U.K. evidence
… financial reports in the United Kingdom conveys information that affects share prices. The major objective for reporting the financial affairs of business enterprises is assumed to be the provision of information to help investors make investment decisions. Interim reports fulfil an important …
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The information content of narrative disclosures in financial statements
… thesis is to analyse the impact of narrative information in annual reports on financial markets. While the effect of textual corporate information on stock returns is well examined in the literature, other firm characteristics are far less investigated. The current body of literature also …
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The dependence of human reliability upon task information content
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1994.
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Shareholder litigation and the information content of management voluntary disclosure
In this paper I study the information content of managers’ voluntary disclosures in a shareholder litigation environment. I model the litigation mechanism in which the legal liability is based on the actual damages shareholders incur from buying a stock at an inflated price. I find that the optimal …
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Methods for Analyzing the Information Content of Large Neuronal Populations
… their activity at fine time scales. The information content in the population is modified from neural interactions across space and time. While this emphasizes the need to examine population responses across space and time, analyzing a population of hundreds of neurons is challenging when …
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The incremental information content of the annual report and accounts
… UK of firms' accounting disclosures and other information contained in the annual report and accounts for share valuation purposes. 2. Using daily share price data and a large sample of actively traded UK firms the relative information content of four major information releases, the preliminary …
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The Information Content of Standard & Poor's Common Stock Ranking Changes
<p>This study examines the information content of Standard & Poor's common stock ranking changes. These rankings are derived from a system which begins with a computer-generated score for per-share growth, stability, and cyclicality of earnings and dividends for the most recent ten years of …
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Incremental information content of cash flow variables: A spanning approach
… cash flow measures have an incremental information content over accounting measure. This study employes the arbitrage argument to establish an economic model which makes it possible to incorporate raw accounting variables into a return generating process. Based on the economic model, a …
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The information content of asset prices and emerging market crises
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, c1999
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The information content of the cash flow statement : an empirical investigation
… present study is to investigate and assess the information content of cash flow disclosures as required by the AASB 1026 "Statement of Cash Flows". The information content is measured in terms of the degree of the relationship between cash flow variables and security returns. In examining the …
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The information content of cash flows versus accrual-based income numbers
Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-123).
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Efficient Computational Tools for Variational Data Assimilation and Information Content Estimation
… This work proposes techniques to quantify the information content of observations used in assimilation; information-theoretic metrics are used. The four dimensional variational approach to data assimilation provides accurate estimates but requires an adjoint construction, and uses considerable …
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Pursuing shareholder value : comparing the information content of EVA and accounting earnings
… annual share returns is assessed. This relative information content issue is tested on a sample of 758 company year-ends from 1991 to 1997. Results indicate that accounting earnings explains 26% of the variation in cumulative abnormal returns. The comparative figure for EVA is less than 12%. This …
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Influence of gene expression gradients on positional information content in fly embryos
The concept of positional information was introduced to qualitatively explain how individual cells are involved in forming patterns. Recent experimental and theoretical developments have made studying specific biological systems in a quantitative manner possible using the framework of positional …
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Information Content of Insider Trades, IPO lockup Expiration and long-run IPO performance
… have assessed whether insider trades convey information to the market. Whilst lots of research has been undertaken in the past three decades, the issue is still contentious and there is ongoing debate concerning the legality and profitability of insider trading. Regulators restrict insider …
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