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Market meltdown likely to impact IT spending

August 9, 2011 10:51am PDT

The folks who control IT budgets -- chief financial officers -- are not going to be very enthusiastic about spending on tech projects amid the current market volatility.

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Smartphones with stock Android (photos)

August 8, 2011 4:00pm PDT

Android smartphones that are free of fancy skins are scarcer than you may think.

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Rare Macroeconomic Disasters

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The potential for rare macroeconomic disasters may explain an array of asset-pricing puzzles. The authors' empirical studies of these extreme events rely on long-term data now covering 28...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Carry Trades And Risk

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Carry trades, in which an investor borrows a low interest rate currency and lends a high interest rate currency, have been profitable historically. The risk exposure of carry traders might explain...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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An Evaluation Of The Forecasting Performance Of Three Econometric Models For The Eurozone And The USA

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper compares the forecasting performance of three different econometric models for the Eurozone and the USA: a Vector Auto Regression (VAR), a Bayesian Vector Auto Regression (BVAR), and a...

Provided by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research

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Recurrence Quantification Analysis Of Financial Market Crashes And Crises

July 27, 2011 12:00am PDT

Financial markets are systems with the complex behavior that can be hardly analyzed by means of linear methods. Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) is a nonlinear methodology, which is able...

Provided by: Cherkasy State Technological University

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Getting Closer to the Customer: Overcoming Common Sales AnalysisChallenges

July 15, 2011 12:00am PDT

Because of this, many retailers struggle with limited visibility into real-time trends from day to day - not to mention during seasonal and promotional campaigns. It becomes hard to implement the...

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Dangers and Joys of Stock Trading on The Web: Failure Characterization of a Three-Tier Web Service

July 13, 2011 12:00am PDT

Characterizing latent software faults is crucial to address dependability issues of current three-tier systems. A client should not have a misconception that a transaction succeeded, when in...

Provided by: Purdue University

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Tech boom (and bust) 2.0

July 7, 2011 6:39am PDT

Rather than making painful attempts to woo top talent, offer current and potential employees a raft of compelling alternative benefits like stability, proven leadership, and opportunities to learn...

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Review on Main Memory Database

July 7, 2011 12:00am PDT

The idea of using Main Memory DataBase (MMDB) as physical memory is not new but is in existence quite since a decade. MMDB have evolved from a period when they were only used for caching or in...

Provided by: Interscience Open Access Journals

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Mobile Communication

July 6, 2011 12:00am PDT

Consumers demand more from their technology. Whether it be a television, cellular phone, or refrigerator, the latest technology purchase must have new features. With the advent of the Internet,...

Provided by: Interscience Open Access Journals

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Role Of Diversification Risk In Financial Bubbles

July 5, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors present an extension of the Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette (JLS) model to include an additional pricing factor called the "Zipf factor", which describes the diversification risk of the stock...

Provided by: ETH Zurich

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The Influence of Global Constraints on Similarity Measures for Time-Series Databases

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

A time series consists of a series of values or events obtained over repeated measurements in time. Analysis of time series represents and important tool in many application areas, such as stock...

Provided by: University of Novi Sad

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Which Market Drives Credit Spreads In Tranquil And Crisis Periods? An Analysis Of The Contribution To Price Discovery Of Bonds, CDs, Stocks And Options

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Credit spreads can be derived from the prices of securities traded in different markets. In this paper, the authors investigate the price discovery process in single-name credit spreads obtained...

Provided by: University of Reading

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Financial Reliability And Firms' Export Activity

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

In this paper the authors assess the importance of internal financial resources related to the sunken entry costs, which characterize a firm's export activity. They propose a new methodology to...

Provided by: Lessius

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Wealth, Labour Income, Stock Returns And Government Bond Yields, And Financial Stress In The Euro Area

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The author shows that when the ratio of asset wealth to human wealth falls, investors become more exposed to idiosyncratic shocks and demand higher stock and government bond risk premia. The...

Provided by: University of Minho

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Capital Flows: Catalyst Or Hindrance To Economic Takeoffs?

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper applies a probit estimation to assess the relationship between economic takeoffs during 1950-2000 and inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Stock Trend Prediction Using Regression Analysis - A Data Mining Approach

July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Organizations have been collecting data for decades, building massive data warehouses in which to store the data. Even though this data is available, very few of these organizations have been able...

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Was The Worldwide Asymmetry In Current Accounts Caused By The Macroeconomic Policy Of The Global Economy's Leader?

June 27, 2011 12:00am PDT

Some authors sketch the causal chain that produced the current account surplus in China and the current account deficit of the US (as a part of global imbalances) as follows: declining interest...

Provided by: University of Leipzig

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On The Implementation Of Markov-perfect Monetary Policy

June 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

The literature on optimal monetary policy in New Keynesian models under both commitment and discretion usually solves for the optimal allocations that are consistent with rational expectations...

Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia