We analyse times between consecutive transactions for a diverse group of stocks registered on the NYSE and NASDAQ markets, and we relate the dynamical properties of the intertrade times with those of the corresponding price fluctuations. We report that market structure strongly impacts the scale-invariant temporal organisation in the transaction timing of stocks, which we have observed to have ...

The propensity for flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) leaves to retain or improve their visual quality and value over an extended period of time is referred as “holding-ability.” General holding-ability models that are specific popular cultivars not available commercial farmers. Research was conducted at five locations from 2009 2014 determine the effect cultivar upper-stalk harvest timi...

The number of countries experiencing very low fertility has been rising in recent years, garnering increasing academic, political and media attention. There is now widespread academic agreement that the postponement of fertility is a major contributing factor in the very low levels of fertility that have occurred, and yet most policy discussions have been devoted to increasing the numbers of ch...

In today’s intensely competitive business environment, pharmaceutical companies are augmenting their product pipelines by both developing drugs on their own and inlicensing proprietary compounds or drug discovery–related technologies from smaller biotechnology companies. In this work, the OptFolio model of pharmaceutical R&D portfolio management is extended to evaluate partnership opportunities...

A robust finding in the literature is that seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) are followed by negative long-run abnormal returns, which can be seen as evidence of market timing. In this paper I document the cost of market timing, based on the idea that investors view companies with the most negative abnormal returns in the year following a SEO, as most likely to have timed the issue. I find that ...

We study the timing of European Corporate Sector Purchase Program and its direct effect on corporate financing decisions. Consistent with goal reducing credit premia, more timely purchases are observed for eligible bonds characterized by higher risk. Firms effectively targeted increase their relative use market debt maturity newly issued than but not (yet) issuers. The estimated is driven verif...

in this study, trading patterns and constituents of trading performances of individual and institutional investors have been investigated in a weekly manner, using an auto regressive model and a grinblatt & titman portfolio performance measure spanning 2008-2012. the results show that while individual investors have a herding behavior, institutional investors take contrarian trading strategies....