GRASP News Volume 9, Number 1

GRASP News: Volume 9, Number 1

The past year at the GRASP Lab has been an exciting and productive period. As always, innovation and technical advancement arising from past research has lead to unexpected questions and fertile areas for new research. New robots, new mobile platforms, new sensors and cameras, and new personnel have all contributed to the breathtaking pace of the change. Perhaps the most significant change is t...

GRASP NEWS: Volume 7, Number 1

Since its beginning in 1983, the GRASP News has chronicled the research efforts of the Grasp Laboratory. This edition, which covers developments for the year 1990, follows the format of previous editions. The Feature Article, however, in a departure from tradition does not highlight a particular research project. Helen Anderson presents a summary of the Laboratory research projects and activiti...

Time-Aware Content Summarization of Data Streams

Major media companies such as The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal or Reuters generate huge amounts of textual news data world wide on a daily basis. Finance specialists rely on this information to grasp the market sentiment and make decisions accordingly (e.g., buy or sell stocks). An important application for them is to mine this mass of information for extracting recurrent behaviors ...

A Perspective on Promoter Ownership and Market Reaction to Corporate News: Evidence from India

C orporate governance structures in the wake of observed differences in firm ownership structures in developed markets and emerging market economies are distinct. In this paper, we examine the effect of an ownership structure of firms on the market reaction to corporate news flows in the context of emerging market economies like India. We observe the price and volume movements associ...

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