Science & Speculation

Science and speculation. Studies in Hellenistic theory and practice

childhood and adolescence left by male historians such as John Gillis, whose chapter on Victorian adolescence in Youth and history (1974) is tellingly entitled 'Boys will be boys'. Gorham provides a thorough summary of recent secondary material, and an illuminating introduction to the use of autobiographical sources. The complex and sometimes contradictory requirements of the feminine role as i...

Speculation Spillovers Speculation Spillovers

This paper demonstrates that investor irrationality can be contagious across markets. Supplementing existing studies on resale option theory, we illustrate that warrant speculation could spill over to the underlying stock market. Our findings indicate that high turnover of underlying stocks is associated with previous day’s high unexpected turnover of warrants, or previous day’s larger price de...

Food Speculation

Speculation Spillover

This paper demonstrates that investor irrationality can be contagious across markets. Studies addressing the pros and cons of opening derivatives markets have failed to pay sufficient attention to the roles of speculative activities. This paper investigates how trading activities that are unrelated to fundamentals affect the impact of derivatives on stock markets. By using unique data from the ...

Understanding Method Level Speculation

Method level speculation (MLS) is an optimistic technique for parallelizing imperative programs, for which a variety of MLS systems and optimizations have been proposed. However, runtime performance strongly depends on the interaction between program structure and MLS system design choices, making it difficult to compare approaches or understand in a general way how programs behave under MLS. H...