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Memorializing Milton Friedman: a review of his major works, 1912-2006
Introduction Milton Friedman was born in July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY, to Jewish immigrants, Jeno Saul Friedman and Sarah Ethel Landau, who immigrated to Brooklyn, in 1890, and 1895, respectively. Friedman's parents came from Barehovo, Ukraine, which was formerly part of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. When Milton Friedman was...
Tags: agent, Chicago, Columbia, economist, FINANCE, Friedman, hypothesis, income, inflation, Risk, Rose, theory, University of Chicago
Research articles 2008-03-22
Does the stock market under-react to the Federal Reserve bank's monetary policy actions?
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the reaction of the stock market to the monetary policy actions of the Federal Reserve Fed. Specifically, we examine the reaction of the stock market to the monetary policy announcements by the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC of the Fed. We show that the full...
Tags: anomaly, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve Bank, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, hypothesis, Investment, stock, Studies, YES
Research articles 2008-03-01
Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Temsamane units, External Rif (northern Morocco): implications for the evolution of the Rif and the Betic-Rif arc
Abstract: Located at an intermediate position in the External Rif nappe pile, the Temsamane units northern Morocco are characterized by an abnormally intense metamorphism and a penetrative ductile deformation. We present new metamorphic data showing that, in spite of their external position in the Rif, part of the Temsamane units...
Tags: agreement, analysis, BP Plc, C, CD-ROM, database, DES, domain, e-mail, financial, G., geology, hypothesis, M., University of Cambridge
Research articles 2007-07-01
The use of efficient market hypothesis: beyond SOX.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
This Article focuses on the regulatory use of finance theory, particularly the efficient market hypothesis ("EMH"), in two areas where securities pricing is at issue: shareholder appraisal cases and the use of employer stock in benefit plans. Regarding shareholder appraisal cases, the Article finds that the...
Tags: appraisal, Delaware, Delaware Chancery Court, director, ERISA, fiduciary, financial, hypothesis, merger, Paramount, security, shareholder, stock, U.S. Department of Labor, valuation, Van
Research articles 2007-06-01
Working Farm Participation and Acreage Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program
Among Conservation Reserve Program CRP participants, there is a distinction between farm households using the program to ease out of farming and those using the program to augment production receipts. We find evidence that factors other than crop or livestock revenue and environmental factors are associated with program participation and...
Tags: conservation, enrollment, FINANCE, hypothesis, income, payment, revenue, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2007-04-01
A REVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF ACM CODE OF CONDUCT ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MORAL JUDGMENT AND INTENT
ABSTRACTOne of the most widely recognized code of ethics in information technology IT is the ACM Association for Computing Machinery Code of Ethics. Adopted in 1992, the code covers many of the key ethical areas that are encountered in information technology practice. But this code has been lightly studied in...
Tags: ACM, agreement, computer, ethics, hypothesis, Leadership, M.
Research articles 2007-04-01
The relationship among creative individual personality, organizational commitment, and job performance evidence from ISO firms in Thailand
ABSTRACT Creativity in humans is emerging as the most important factor to influence business advancement in today's intensely competitive and dynamic environment. Creativity is the ability to generate original ideas and solve problems appropriate to the contexts a definition that echoes both idea of originality as a factor of...
Tags: Allen, Benefits, Hypothesis, ISO, job, M.
Research articles 2007-01-01
The unit root hypothesis for aggregate output may not hold after all: new evidence from a panel stationarity test with multiple breaks
1. Introduction Since the seminal work by Nelson and Plosser (1982), researchers have paid considerable attention to the presence of stochastic trends in macroeconomic variables. That work also changed the way macroeconomists think about secular trends and short-run fluctuations in business cycles. Since the existence of a unit root...
Tags: Annual, Capita, dependence, hypothesis, Im, OECD
Research articles 2007-01-01
Predators of Insect Pests Thrive in "Live" Mulch.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2006-US ARS: Predators of Insect Pests Thrive in "Live" MulchC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26102006 Living mulches help farmers improve soil quality and stave off weeds and erosion. But they may provide another benefit: habitat for beneficial predators that...
Tags: Benefits, habitat, hypothesis, Iowa State University, scientist
Research articles 2006-10-26
Study: Airbags, Antilock Brakes Not Likely to Reduce Accidents, Injuries.
Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 27 AScribe Newswire -- Researchers have determined that airbags and antilock braking systems do not reduce the likelihood of accidents or injuries because they may encourage more aggressive driving, thwarting the potential benefits of such safety ...
Tags: accident, brake, car, hypothesis, Purdue University, researcher
Research articles 2006-09-27
Tedious 'Six Degrees' a weak link for ABC
Six Degrees ABC, tonight, 10 ET/PT ** out of four --- Have the folks at Six Degrees been separated from their senses? Produced under the auspices of Lost's J.J. Abrams but created and written by others, Six Degrees is a theoretical construct trying desperately and futilely to become a TV...
Tags: ABC Inc., Games, hypothesis, MARKETING, TVs
Research articles 2006-09-21
Validation of the Digital Opacity Compliance System under regulatory enforcement conditions.
ABSTRACT U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Emission Measurement Center in conjunction with EPA Regions VI and VIII, the state of Utah, and the U.S. Department of Defense have conducted a series of long-term pilot and field tests to determine the accuracy and...
Tags: analysis, camera, compliance, emission, hypothesis, technology, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2006-09-01
Thomas J. Hixon.(RECOGNIZED)(National Institutes of Health)(Brief article)
Thomas J. Hixon, professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences at The University of Arizona UA, has been selected for inclusion in a study of top National Institutes of Health grantees and their impact on mentoring in the life sciences. A working hypothesis of this study...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, hypothesis, SOFTWARE, University of Arizona
Research articles 2006-07-11
Newspaper ideological bias or "statist quo"? The acid test
I Introduction FOR 30 YEARS, debate has swirled around the alleged "liberal bias" of U.S. journalists, and especially journalists who write for publications such as Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sutter (2001) has written that a veritable "cottage industry" has sprung up as...
Tags: Boston Globe, Bush, Government, hypothesis, journalist, Media, Monthly, New York Times Co., regression, Robert, scientist, SOFTWARE, Tribune Co., U.S., Washington Post Co.
Research articles 2006-07-01
Pathogenesis of Atrial Fibrillation-Potential Role of Inflammatory Response
A-71J. Fareed, D. Hoppensteadt, O. Iqbal, D. Farced, J, Cunanan, M. Florian, R. Bick, S. Kahn, B. Lewis, B. Lewis. Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL,Background: Atrial fibrillation AF is a complicated syndrome with multiple pathophysiologic triggers. Inflammatory processes are known to contribute to the pathogenesis of AF. Methods: To...
Tags: CD, hypothesis, Loyola University, protein, syndrome, trigger
Research articles 2006-06-01
Gut reaction to lies.(Brief Article)
Your gut knows a lie when it hears one. A University of Texas study suggests that changes in gastric physiology are better than standard polygraph methods at distinguishing between lies and the truth. To test their hypothesis that the gastrointestinal tract is uniquely sensitive...
Tags: hypothesis, researcher, University of Texas
Research articles 2005-12-01
Britain finds bird flu in quarantined birds
LONDON AFP — Tests on 32 birds which died in British quarantine up to mid-October have found that some had bird flu, Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett said, although the exact strain remains unknown. The birds in question died before October 16, a few days before the death in quarantine...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, hypothesis, strain
Research articles 2005-10-26
Document image analysis by probabilistic network and circuit diagram extraction
The paper presents a hierarchical object recognition system for document processing. It is based on a spatial tree structure representation and Bayesian framework. The image components are built up from lower level image components stored in a library. The tree representations of the objects are assembled from these components. A...
Tags: algorithm, analysis, Bayesian, hypotheses, hypothesis, IEEE, image, Image, Learning, network
Research articles 2005-10-01
BETTOR PREFERENCES AND MARKET EFFICIENCY IN FOOTBALL TOTALS MARKETS
Abstract The betting markets for totals in college football and arena football provide additional evidence of bettor preference for scoring. The results for college football and arena football markets are similar to those found in the professional football and professional basketball totals market. In all of these leagues, the overs...
Tags: football, Games, hypothesis, league, NFL, Paul, Strategy
Research articles 2005-10-01
Monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates.
A major puzzle in financial economics is the apparent drastic inconsistency of U.S. data with the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates. (1) As documented extensively by Campbell and Shiller (1991), both short changes in long rates and long changes in short rates...
Tags: analysis, bond, Campbell, coefficient, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, hypothesis, regression
Research articles 2005-09-22
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