Bond Rating Agencies and Stock Analysts: Who Knows What When?

When Security Analysts Talk Who Listens?

Regulators’ interest in analyst recommendations stems from the belief that small investors are unaware of the conflicts sell-side analysts face and may, as a consequence, be misled into making suboptimal investment decisions. We examine who trades on security analyst stock recommendations by extending prior research to focus on investor-specific responses to revisions. We find that both large a...

Comparing Market and Supervisory Assessments of Bank Performance: Who Knows What When?

This paper compares the timeliness and accuracy of (confidential) government assessments of bank condition against market evaluations of large U.S. bank holding companies. We find that supervisors and bond rating agencies both acquire some information that would help the other group forecast changes in bank condition. In contrast, supervisory assessments and equity market indicators are not str...

Who, What, and When:

Instant Messaging, or IM, has been growing in popularity for personal and work-related communication. The limited awareness provided by current IM systems combined with the asynchronous nature of IM result in messages often arriving at inconvenient or disruptive times. The goal of my research is to alleviate some of the shortcomings of IM through the understanding and modeling of IM interaction...

ACGME core competencies: Who knows what and does it matter?

Honeybee memory: A honeybee knows what to do and when.

Honeybees have the ability to flexibly change their preference for a visual pattern according to the context in which a discrimination task is carried out. This study investigated the effect of time of day, task, as well as both parameters simultaneously, as contextual cue(s) in modulating bees' preference for a visual pattern. We carried out three series of experiments to investigate these int...