We investigate the profitability of the quantitative market timing technique of candlestick technical analysis in the U.S. equity market. Despite being used for centuries in Japan and now having a wide following amongst market practitioners globally, there is little research documenting its...

In this paper we seek to measure Australian university accounting departments based on the productivity of their current faculty. Measurement is based on published journal articles for the period 1992-1997. Publication data is obtained from the Accounting and Tax Index, ABI Inform and directly...

The psychometric and classification literatures have illustrated the fact that a wide class of discrete or network models (e.g., hierarchical or ultrametric trees) for the analysis of ordinal proximity data are plagued by potential degenerate solutions if estimated using traditional nonmetric...