Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a binocular visual odometry algorithm based on the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) in visual navigation systems. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a novel binocular visual odometry algorithm based on features from accelerated segment...

As the first comprehensive study on privatization in Malaysia, this paper compares financial and operating performance of a sample of 24 firms before and after privatization. The 24 firms were privatized via public listing on the Malaysian exchange -. Measures that improve following...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to try to identify the motivation of firms that announce share repurchase but do not follow it up with the actual purchase. The authors conjecture that the long-term earnings quality of such firms is low, which makes them poor candidates for actual stock...

The seminal Campbell et al. (2001) paper showing that idiosyncratic risk has increased considerably in recent years has spawned a large number of articles to explain the phenomenon. In this paper, we propose growing earnings noncommonality as a possible source of the increasing idiosyncratic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish two competitive models to explain why investors use technical analysis (TA). Design/methodology/approach – Information Discovery Model suggests that technical traders are able to infer non-public information; Herding Behavior Model argues...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to try to identify the motivation of firms that announce share repurchase but do not follow it up with the actual purchase. The authors conjecture that the long-term earnings quality of such firms is low, which makes them poor candidates for actual stock...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of acquirer's earnings quality on the choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies a simultaneous equations model to address the concern of endogeneity between...