OBJECTIVE A mixed methods study was conducted to determine the views of Aboriginal people on their experiences of a brokerage model for access to community-based health services in an urban setting. METHODS A broad range of approaches, using surveys, semi-structured interviews and community forums with Aboriginal people were used to find out people's views and experiences of using the brokera...

We examine whether analyst independence contributes to analysts’ monitoring role in deterring accruals earnings management. first report a negative association between management and the ratio of independent analysts brokerage covering firm. Next, through lens promotion sell-side research institutions by 2003 Global Research Analyst Settlement, we document significant decrease on firms affected...

This paper examines key drivers of consumers’ intention to continue using business-to-consumer e-commerce services. Multiple theoretical perspectives are synthesized to hypothesize a model of continuance behavior, which is then empirically Ž . Ž . tested using a field survey of online brokerage OLB users. Salient results include: 1 consumers’ continuance intention is determined by their satisfa...

Using an experimental design that exploits exogenous reductions in coverage resulting from brokerage house mergers, we find that a reduction in coverage causes a deterioration in financial reporting quality. The effect of coverage on disclosure is more pronounced for firms with weak shareholder rights, consistent with a substitution effect between analyst monitoring and other corporate governan...

New e-markets try in a number of ways to attract a critical mass of participation and usage. Two innovative, all-electronic options exchanges, the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and the Boston Options Exchange (BOX), opened for trading in 2000 and 2004. In contrast to rival floor markets, they offered immediate order execution, direct user access, and reduced costs. ISE and BOX grew tr...

This study examines performance measurement in online financial services in the Australian marketplace, specifically in online securities companies. Seven online stock brokerage companies from Melbourne and Sydney were interviewed, and their strategies and approaches were systematically reviewed and analysed. The findings suggest that only two companies used performance measurement in strategic...

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles intermediation has the potential to improve social welfare. However, since intermediation reduces insu...

This paper examines institutional trading in momentum portfolios. The key result is that institutions engage in momentum trading over the subsequent 3 quarters, buying winners and selling losers, in response to past returns but not past earnings news. Momentum trading is strengthened, however, when returns are accompanied by earnings news of the same sign. While past high returns predict future...

This paper examines human motivations underlying individual acceptance of business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce services. Such acceptance is the key to the survival of firms in this intensely competitive industry. A modified theory of planned behavior (TPB) is used to hypothesize a model of e-commerce service acceptance, which is then tested using a field survey of 172 e-brokerage user...