One of the greatest disaster relief resources available to emergency management officials is the disaster victim community. Contrary to a popular image of social and psychological breakdown in the aftermath of a sudden catastrophic event, impacted communities do respond rationally and...

Agribusinesses firms were surveyed to assess the competencies of their recent college-graduate employees according to whether the employees had agricultural or business degrees. Both graduate types received high average ratings for their computer skills and low average ratings for their...

Stocks added to the S&P 500 generally experience positive abnormal returns following the announcement. Several competing explanations exist for this reaction, but small sample sizes and other issues make it difficult to distinguish among them. We examine this subject using the small-cap Russell...

I examine the effect of demand on stock prices by analyzing the conversion of the TIPs 35 and TIPs 100 exchange-traded funds into the i60 Fund. This conversion occurred at the Toronto Stock Exchange on March 6, 2000. Forty stocks of the TIPs 100 Fund that were not members of the new units of the...