Data quality has been shown to be a major determinant of the value of systems that utilizeinput data feeds and transform them into valuable information under a variety of businesscontexts. For this study, we have chosen a financial risk management context to investigatethe relationship between...

Under circumstances where data quality may vary, knowledge about the potentialperformance of alternate predictive models can enable a decision maker to design aninformation system whose value is optimized in two ways. The decision maker can selecta model which is least sensitive to predictive...

Under circumstances where data quality may vary (due to inaccuracies or lack of timeliness,for example), knowledge about the potential performance of alternate predictive models can help adecision maker to design a business value-maximizing information system. This paper examines a...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasinginterest among Wall Street investment banking and brokeragefirms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stockmarket. As the knowledge of advanced technology applicationsin risk management increases, financial firms are...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasing interest among Wall Street investment banking andbrokerage firms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stock market. We present an overview of thebasic definitions and issues related to risk, and the management of financial risk and...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasing interest among Wall Street investment banking andbrokerage firms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stock market. As the knowledge of advancedtechnology applications in risk management increases, financial firms are finding...

We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets: weekly scanner data, and Internet data. We find that: “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at...

High-frequency trading (HFT) practices in the global financial markets involve the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially the capabilities of high-speed networks, rapid computation, and algorithmic detection of changing information and prices that create...

The importance of distinguishing between potential and realized value for IT investments has been recognized by senior managers and IS researchers since some time in the 1980s, when it became apparent that not all IT investments were likely to achieve equivalent levels of return on investment....

We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets - weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that (i) 9 is the most frequently used price-ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits, (ii) the most common price changes are those that keep the price...