Face Value: Trait Impressions, Performance Characteristics, and Market Outcomes for Financial Analysts

The Effect of Personality Characteristics of Capital Market Analysts on Investment Trends, Risk and Return of their Performance

The relationship between finance and other social sciences as known behavioural finance, evaluate investors to the decision-making process and their reaction to different conditions of financial markets deals. In this study assumed that analysts are specialist in fundamental and technical analysis and then influence their personality characteristics is evaluated on their performance. Statistica...

A Computational Model of the Trait Impressions of the Face for Agent Perception and Face Synthesis

This paper reports a first attempt at developing a computational model of the trait impressions of the face for embodied agents that accommodates the social perception and social construction of faces. Holistic face classifiers, based on principle component analysis (PCA), were trained to match the human classification of faces along the bipolar rating extremes of the following trait dimensions...

Predicting trait impressions of faces using local face recognition techniques

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.12.002 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] ( bo.it (L. Nanni). The aim of this work is to propose a method for detecting the social meanings that people perceive in facial morphology using local face recognition techniques. Developing a reliable method to model people’s trait impressions o...

Inflation and Financial Market Performance

Tournaments of Financial Analysts

We argue that financial analysts can be viewed as participants of two tournaments (the “All-star” tournament and the intrafirm tournament) and examine whether analysts are incentivized by the tournament compensation structure. Using data from 1991 to 2007, we find that interim losers are more likely to increase the boldness of their forecasts in the remainder of the tournament period than inter...