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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Informational content"”.
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The informational content of new security issues.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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The informational content of trading statement releases on the JSE
A prevalent finding in prior literature, both internationally and domestically, is the association between earnings information, contained in earnings announcements, and share returns leading up to and following the publication. This study pulls together evidence across stock exchanges worldwide on …
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Politicians and the Internet
… new communication tool. Three different areas of content will be examined: informational content, interactive content and audio-visual content. Those three areas will be used to examine the differences between Senators in several different ways: gender and race, party affiliation, length of …
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Information transmission in dynamic Bayesian duopoly models
… optimal decisions when they take account of the informational content of their decisions. The first is when informed agents manipulate the informational content of observed market variables through their own decisions in order to influence the learning of uninformed agents. The second is when …
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Directiveness in promotional communications
… responses as well as the message's factual, informational content. The degree to which a promotional communication attempts to control a receiver's responses can be defined as a relational and therefore a stylistic variable. This dissertation operationalizes a stylistic variable, …
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A Comparison of Implied Standard Deviations and Historical Estimates of Volatility During and After the Participation of the British Pound in the ERM
… historical volatility are found to have greater informational content and predictive power about future actual volatility than implied volatility. In particular, a time series estimate, specifically a GARCH(1,1) model, had the most informational content and predictive power about realized pound …
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The impact of selected dividend announcements on daily stock returns
… market price. While empirical analyses of the informational content of dividends hypothesis have resulted in conflicting conclusions, there is substantial evidence which indicates that the market generally reacts favorably when the dividend rate is increased and unfavorably when dividends are …
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The Aesthetic Use of Syntax: Studies on the Syntax of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings
… (perceptually, emotively, and conceptually) the informational content of a text of discourse--these effects being the syntactic realizations of more general aesthetic effects (i.e., iconicity, focus, emphasis, pace, tension, surprise, ambiguity, development, parallelism, transcendence, and …
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Tools and Techniques for Effective Distributed Requirements Engineering: An Empirical Study
… reducing social distance, but are less rich in informational content.
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High-level Cognitive and Neural Contributions to Conscious Experience and Metacognition in Visual Perception
… of signal detection theory for analyzing the informational content of subjective ratings of perceptual clarity and confidence (Appendix A). We constructed a wide array of signal detection theoretic models capturing different hypotheses on the relationship between objective and subjective …
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An investigation into the association between accounting variables and stock market returns: the Mexican case
… to such statistical dependence as "information content." In order to satisfy the above objective, three different abnormal performance indexes were used and the following hypothesis were tested: Hypothesis One: H : There is no relationship between the sign of the forecast error and the sign of …
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Emergent information from low-resolution representations. Methods and applications from protein simulations to artificial neural networks.
We live in an age characterised by informational abundance, in which not only scientific research but also contemporary society in general is shaped by the unprecedented production, availability, and diffusion of data. On the one hand, advances in measurement techniques, simulation methods, and …
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An examination of bond rating, beta and value-at-risk as financial risk measures.
… Efficient Market Hypothesis point of view, the informational content of the downgrade depends on whether or not the reasons for it can improve the uncertainty about the financial outlook of the downgraded companies. Studies of bond rating downgrade result in mixed empirical evidence and hardly …
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Empirical studies on economic consequences of accounting standards
… standards. The first study jointly examines the informational value of pension liability recognition mandated in France under IFRS and its effect on firms’ financing decisions. We argue that changes in pension accounting information have affected firms’ required cost of capital and/or investing …
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Essays on the microstructure of US equity options
… trading day. The second essay investigates the informational content of options order flow through a new proxy of predictive information. It finds that the options trades contain predictive information about the future price movements of underlying stocks. This predictive power is varied across …
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Content-aware compression for big textual data analysis
… of this work include the following. Firstly, a Content-aware Partial Compression (CaPC) scheme is developed. CaPC makes a distinction between informational and functional content in which only the informational content is compressed. Thus, the compressed data is made transparent to existing …
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Improving the decision usefulness of the corporate annual report
… existing empirical evidence casts doubt on the informational content of any part of the annual report. This study offers a partial explanation of this anomaly by demonstrating the decision usefulness of annual report disclosures, focusing on improvements made possible by a more detailed analysis …
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Testing for Structural Change: Evaluation of the Current Methodologies, a Misspecification Testing Perspective and Applications
… relies on resampling techniques to enhance the informational content of the observed data in an attempt to capture heterogeneity 'locally' using rolling window estimators of the primary moments of the stochastic process. This provides an e¤ective way to enhance the sample information in order …
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Beyond Broadcasting: The Strategic Power of Personalized Brand Responses on Social Media
… environment, brands face challenges in crafting content that resonates with users who are quick to spot or evade marketing attempts. Drawing on persuasion knowledge model, this dissertation investigates how consumers react to distinct forms of firm-generated content (FGC) under varying …
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Second Language Comprehension and Processing Grammatical Form: The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Mode, and Pausing
… the input only if they are able to process the informational content at little cost to attentional resources. Using this principle of input processing as a point of departure, this study examines possible ways of decreasing L2 learners' processing demands by increasing comprehensibility of the …
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