This article focuses on the analysis of financial time series and their correlations. A method is used for quantifying pattern based correlations of a time series. With this methodology, evidence is found that typical behavioral patterns of financial market participants manifest over short time scales, i.e., that reactions to given price patterns are not entirely random, but that similar price ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether financial ties to one drug company are associated with favourable results or conclusions in meta-analyses on antihypertensive drugs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Meta-analyses published up to December 2004 that were not duplicates and evaluated the effects of antihypertensive drugs compared with any comparator on clinical end points in adults. Fi...

The present study aims at investigating the impact of the presence of audit committee and its characteristics on the corporate information environment. These characteristics include independence, financial expertise, size, and the gender of the audit committee. Although several methods have been discussed for measuring information environment in the accounting and finance literature, this resea...

Financial decision-making problems represent an important new set of applications for expert systems. While these problems share certain similarities with the scientific and engineering domains that have historically been the focus of expert system research and development, they have their own special characteristics. What distinguishes financial applications? What demands do they place on expe...

In this study, a hybrid synergy model integrating exponential smoothing and neural network is proposed for financial time series prediction. The proposed model attempts to incorporate the linear characteristics of an exponential smoothing model and nonlinear patterns of neural network to create a “synergetic” model via the linear programming technique. For verification, two real-world financial...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the relative contribution of health, job characteristics, skills and knowledge, and social and financial factors to the transition from work to (non-disability) early retirement. METHODS Employees aged 59-63 years (N=2317) were selected from the Study on Transitions in Employment, Ability and Motivation in the Netherlands (STREAM). Individual charact...

Britain is characterised by a low rate of post compulsory schooling compared to other European countries. To reduce this disparity, the British government has been testing an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) where 16 to 19-year olds are given financial support to attend schooling when the family income falls below a threshold. This paper attempts at first separating family and income effec...

Optimal working capital management can positively effect on the Firm performance, but this relationship can be affected by major characteristics of the firm, making an important subject for research. This research investigates the moderating role of firm characteristics on the relation between working capital management and financial performance of the firms listed in TSE during 2008 – 2017 per...