European research: Commission's new broom

Ockham's broom: A new series

Although it is increasingly difficult to gauge what people can be expected to know, it is probably safe to assume that most readers are familiar with Ockham's razor – roughly, the principle whereby gratuitous suppositions are shaved from the interpretation of facts – enunciated by a Franciscan monk, William of Ockham, in the fourteenth century. Ockham's broom is a somewhat more recent conceit, ...

New opportunities for European radiation protection research.

Time for Chocolate: Current Understanding and New Perspectives on Cacao Witches’ Broom Disease Research

1 Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, 3 Laboratório de Genômica e Expressão, Departamento de Genética, Evolução e Bioagentes, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas ...

John Broom

Purchasing IPOs with Commissions

We find direct evidence that institutions churn stocks, increase commissions per share and pay unusually high commissions on trades in order to send abnormally high commissions to lead underwriters of upcoming IPOs. These excess commission payments are a particularly effective way for transient investors to receive lucrative IPO allocations. Our results suggest that the underwriter’s concern fo...