Our proposed project is a recommendations component for web-based announcements system to be used by Cal Poly portal users. The system may hold at any time hundreds of past, present and future announcements or events pulled from disparate sources for display. To facilitate display of announcements, we will develop a recommendation system to select and sort the top announcements for a given user.

This study examines stock market reactions to announcements of information technology investments in Poland, an emerging market and transition economy. Based on 68 announcements by companies traded at the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the period 2002 to 2009, our study confirms some previously published results, but also shows that specific characteristics of announcements play a more important role...

The paper analyzes the information and agency cost effects of bank equity stakes in a universal banking system where banks can also be shareholders in borrowing firms. We test the agency and signaling hypotheses explaining the bank motivations for holding equity of borrowing firms in the Spanish market and we analyze the share abnormal returns around the announcements of bank equity holdings. T...

This paper measures the effect of dividend initiation announcements on firms’ stock returns using a propensity score matching approach. Unlike the traditional event study methodology, propensity score matching can reduce the bias in the estimation of dividend initiation effects by controlling for the existence of confounding factors. Consistent with previous studies, the results show that divid...

The sharing economy model that was developed in the last decade has a major effect on different aspect of life. purpose this research is to test product its competitors. Specifically, study used event approach examine how Airbnb announcements affected hotel stock prices. To accomplish goal, we 180 investigate general Airbnb, and effects according type announcement audience. findings indicate ha...

We inspect how inflation target announcements are instrumental in building central bank credibility and shaping the public’s inflation expectations. Investigating the role of announcements in two early adopters of inflation targeting by using a time varying credibility measure, we find that both the accuracy and the frequency of inflation announcements have a positive impact on how much attenti...

We analyze the effect of patent pools on the incentives to file patents related to a comprehensive sample of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards. We measure a positive effect of the announcement of a pool on the filing rates for standard-related patents. We identify an exogenous policy change between 1997 and 1999, when antitrust authorities adopted a more permissive stance...