This paper examined the information content of financial columns. Since the stock market is informationally efficient, no investor can extract excess returns by blindly following the advice of financial column. However, the labor market for financial columnist is competitive, a surviving...

We propose a methodology of Genetic Programming to approximate the relationship between the option price, its contract terms and the properties of the underlying stock price. An important advantage of the Genetic Programming approach is that we can incorporate currently known formulas, such as...

In this article, the authors explore the linkages between the Ball-Brown effect and the information transfer effect in oligopoly. Using the data from the Wall Street Journal's "Digest of Earnings Report" column, they analyze how the stock market reacts to the subearnings information. The authors...

We applied the VARMA test to examine the dynamic relation between prices and interest rates. The dynamic relation, which is important to characterize the nature of the Gibson paradox, provides economists new insight in discriminating against competing theories. In light of our empirical...

In a capital budgeting decision, timing is often an important part of the decision-maker’s opportunity set. The ability of the manager to choose when to undertake an investment has similarities to the ability of the holder of a securities option to choose when to exercise that option. This...