BOND RATINGS ARE THE principal source of investor information about the" quality" and
marketability of various bond issues. As such, they have been subjected to considerable …

Recent empirical studies have found ex post common stock returns to be consistently positively
skewed. The frequency of positive skewness in this study is found to be relatively stable …

… Baker, Singleton, and Veit catalog and discuss the most important contributions to the field
and provide a longitudinal perspective unavailable anywhere else. They offer an objective …

The problem of how best to configure and train a network to rate bonds on the basis of financial
parameters which characterize corporations is addressed. 126 bond patterns, each with …

… Singleton does not let his case rest with the ethnographic description of this single school
and its locale. The larger context of education in Japan is also considered. He gives us an …

Explanations for the day‐of‐the‐week effect are either market‐specific conventions (timing
delays in settlement and clearing, dividend payout arrangements) or cross‐market events (…

… Clay Singleton is a doctoral candidate in finance at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Ali Jahankhani is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. …

In this research we employ two statistical approaches not previously used to examine the
Monday effect: exploratory data analysis and content analysis. While most previous Monday …

The Prudent Investor Rule (Rule) gives personal representatives and fiduciaries both the
authority and the requirement to consult the well-established principles, strategies, and tools of …

Capital budgeting models for analyzing real assets typically are based on a set of restrictive
assumptions that influence financial managers' decisions and may prevent optimization of …