Mine companies' profits higher. - Hecla and federal dividends for quarter are sharply higher. - Hecla Mining company, operating lead, zinc, silver and copper properties in Idaho, reported for the quarter ended March 1, net income of $176,660 after depreciation and depletion, but before provision...

Three local mines declare dividends. - Dividends of 1.2 cents per share on stock of the Sherman Lead company; one cent per share on stock of the Dayrock Mining company and of four-tenths of one cent pershare on stock of the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining company where announced this...

This paper mainly aims to extend the philosophy of capability development at the micro level for achieving individual happiness as a part of a community through social transformation and to achieve happiness at individual and community level. One of the main indicators for Gross National...

the group- and the individual-based micro-lending contracts. The success of group lending has been attributed to the ability of the lender to alleviate asymmetric information problems. The existing theoretical literature offers a number of explanations for this phenomenon including the building...

This dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter shows that the measurement errors in betas for stocks induce corresponding measurement errors in alphas and a spurious negative covariance between the estimated betas and alphas across stocks. This negative covariance between the...

This dissertation examines whether simultaneously conditioning on themultidimensional characteristics of information signals can help predict returnsthat are of economic significance. We use large price changes, publicannouncements, and large volume increases to proxy for the...

Theoretical models suggest that ownership structure may be an important determinant of securities' market characteristics. For example, the presence of informed traders leads to greater bid-ask spreads (Copeland and Galai (1983), and Glosten and Milgrom (1985)), and strategic trading of informed...