Organizations providing enhanced electronic services to their customers have exponentially increased in past years. The benefits of web-portals to companies and to customers are well evident and are considered an IT artifact manifested in entry points to Internet-based information presentation and exchange by communities of common interest. Despite much research done on the benefits of web port...

This paper focuses on the effect of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) announcements stocks Latin American banks their rivals between 2000 2019. We evaluate two impacts M&A announcements: cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) event-induced variance (EIV). use GARCH-based event-study method, finding that acquirers target have a statistically significant CAR targets are not affected by announcements. ob...

Previous studies have shown that many users do not use effective data deletion techniques upon sale or surrender of storage devices. A logical assumption is that many users are still confused concerning proper sanitization techniques of devices upon surrender. This paper strives to measure this assumption through a buyback study with a survey component. We recorded participants’ thoughts and be...

Beijing attempted to host both the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games, being unsuccessful in 2000 and successful in 2008. This paper analyzes the influences the Olympic host announcements on Chinese stock market indices. Olympic host announcements may impact the bidding countries’ investors’ sentiments (mood effect) and their rational economic expectations (economic effect); thus, the bidding countrie...

O April 28, 1996, in the historic Tasmanian penal colony of Port Arthur, a lone gunman killed thirty-five persons with a semiautomatic rifle. Following that incident, which was the largest of a series of mass homicides, the federal and state governments of Australia agreed on a broad plan of gun control, implemented over the following twelve months. The new controls included prohibitions on cer...

We address the issue of manipulating games through communication. In the specific setting we consider (a variation of Boolean games), we assume there is some set of environment variables, the values of which are not directly accessible to players; the players have their own beliefs about these variables, and make decisions about what actions to perform based on these beliefs. The communication ...