This study tested the effects of perceived t ime pressure on subjective visual vertical (SVV) perception in co llege healthy male students. Delayed down-weighting of inaccurate visual cues has been implicated in age-induced overreliance on visual informat ion, which may be disruptive for postural control. Accordingly, I hypothesized that under time pressure, participants may not have enough tim...

This article explores implications of the transition to an environment in which users have become secondary gatekeepers of the content published on media websites. This expanded user role, facilitated by technology and enabled by digital news editors, includes assessment of contributions by other users; communication of the perceived value or quality of userand journalist-produced content; and ...

Prior research has shown that negative affect directed at the self follows from intergroup evaluation. Building on social identity theory, we hypothesized that ingroup identification impacts on felt self-directed negative affect after making intergroup differentiating evaluations. Additionally, prior work has demonstrated that people downgrade the outgroup to the extent that they identify with ...

Derivatives exposures across large financial institutions often contribute to – if not necessarily create – systemic risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk contributions. In this paper, the author explains how a transparency standard, in contrast to the current standard, would facilitate such risk analysis. He al...

This paper presents AgentFSEGA experience at the Automated Negotiation Agents Competition 2010. AgentFSEGA is a time-constrained negotiation strategy that learns the opponent’s profile out of its moves. Having at the baseline the Bayesian negotiation strategy [3], AgentFSEGA considers the negotiation time as a resource, being prepared to concede more as time passes. While AgentFSEGA performs we...

This paper combines the GCC and Convention Theory frameworks to compare the value-chains for agro-commodities before and after the decade 1980-90. Crudely, this period was a watershed between producer-driven and buyer-driven forms of organisation. Subsequently, two types of buyer-driven chain have become differentiated: one with low entry barriers that is experiencing downgrading, and one with ...

The GM and Ford downgrade to junk status during May 2005 caused a wide-spread sell-off in their corporate bonds. Using a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market-makers, as evidenced by a significant imbalance in their quotes towards sales. We also document that simultaneously, there was excess comovement in the fixed-income s...

IZA DP No. 11241 DECEMBER 2017 Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants* This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country’s population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants’ labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Surve...

Rating agencies are often subject to the criticism of being slow in adjusting their rating to current conditions. This paper examines the timeliness of rating changes and identifies factors which result in ’stickiness’ of rating actions. Stickiness is characterized by not adjusting the rating even when a market-based estimate of default probability changes. Introducing an extended econometric m...

The cornerstone of bank supervision is a regular schedule of thorough, on-site examinations. Under rules set forth in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA), most U.S. banks must submit to a full-scope federal or state examination every 12 months; small, well-capitalized banks must be examined every 18 months. These examinations focus on six components of ban...