This paper describes a graphical procedure that was used to select the length and placement of the announcement period, the number of securities in the comparison portfolio, and the length of the comparison period for an event study involving over 16,000 earnings announcements. The literature does not suggest a single “best” methodological approach for an event study. Plotting information conte...

Event-B is a formal method, based on set theory and firstorder logic, for specification and verification of reactive systems supported by the Rodin tool kit. Feature modelling is a well-known technique for managing variability and configuring products within software product lines (SPLs). Our objective is to explore whether we can use existing Event-B composition techniques and tooling for feat...

We calculate abnormal stock returns for Japanese non-financial companies around major events associated with the banking crisis (1995–2000), and find that not all companies were equally sensitive to the malaise of the banking sector: the most affected were small, leveraged, low-tech companies with low credit ratings and low market to book ratios. This is consistent with ‘‘credit crunch’’ theori...

Motion-event typology has moved into a “post-Talmian” terrain of approaches focusing on an open-ended number patterns across languages and constructions. Following proposal to distinguish between four typological clusters, we systematically compared the motion event descriptions in suggested exemplify these clusters: Swedish, French, Thai Telugu, with help elicitation-based study. 20 adult nati...