Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to determine if banks that solved the Y2K problem early created value for their shareholders. Design/methodology/approach – The method of analysis is an event study. Findings – The primary finding of the analysis is that solving the Y2K problem did not...

Purpose: This study investigates the relation of bank loan delinquencies to Fed Survey delinquency data from 2003 to 2017. Bank-generated loans have lower delinquencies than all Fed Survey loan types. Survey mortgage and auto loan delinquencies are positively related to bank loan delinquencies...

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to determine if banks that solved the Y2K problem early created value for their shareholders. Design/methodology/approach -The method of analysis is an event study. Findings - The primary finding of the analysis is that solving the Y2K problem did not create...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to detail how the adoption of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems creates major distortions in the corporate decision‐making process. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to focus on the distortion in the capital – budgeting process...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of the role of computer usage in determining the credit score for small business owners. Design/methodology/approach – Bitler, Robb, and Wolken report over three‐quarters of all small business use computerized...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the OpenIPO process, vis‐à‐vis traditional bookbuilding, and evaluate the suitability of the OpenIPO for various types of companies, market conditions, and assets. Design/methodology/approach – This paper develops the pros and cons of...

Purpose – New technologies have provided new tools we may use as finance professors to communicate with our students. Instant messaging (IM) has become a common communication tool in industry and among students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of IM as a communication tool...