Most information research devoted to on-line discussion forums involves content analysis of postings, and is thereby skewed to those participants who actively post. The research reported in this paper aims to uncover the information behaviour of people who participate more passively in these...

"Expectations regarding the economic development might be correlated due to various reasons: because individuals use the same public information and similar evaluation methods, and because of social learning or herding amongst peers. We analyse to what extent expectations are driven by herd...

Our paper deals with aspects regarding risk and uncertainty.Using content analyze in this paper we survey the disclosure level of risk management information in the annual report of top Romanian listed companies.

Foundation of economic decisions on the manufacture and sales of products in the construction materials industry is influenced by many factors. Among these may be included also: pollution control, national priorities, moral factors, policies and even weather conditions. Each of these factors can...

Banks are supposed to respond to imperfect information in credit markets. They are thought to access private information and to create additional information through credit granting.This means two things. First, mandatory accounting information is not sufficient to create a state of perfect...