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Extending Becker's time allocation theory to model continuous time blocks : evidence from daylight saving time

Wolff, Hendrik; Makino, Momoe - 2012

Most activities in life require a certain amount of continuous time. Yet, in the traditional economic model of time allocation, the time block is not taken into account. Hence, the same amount of utility is derived from an activity regardless of whether it is performed continuously over one time...

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Firm Heterogeneity and Calendar Anomalies

Narayan, Paresh Kumar - 2012

While the calendar anomalies and financial market relationship is one of the oldest relationships in financial economics, we treat this relationship differently by addressing two unknown issues: do calendar anomalies have a heterogeneous effect on firm returns and firm volatility depending on...

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An Anatomy of Calendar Effects

Swinkels, Laurens - 2012

This paper studies the interaction of the five most well-established calendar effects: the Halloween effect, January effect, turn-of-the-month effect, weekend effect and holiday effect. We find that Halloween and turn-of-the month (TOM) are the strongest effects fully diminishing the other three...

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Investigation About the Presence of the Day-of-the-Week Effect in the Bucharest Stock Exchange

Stefanescu, Razvan - 2012

In the last decades the specialized literature revealed the seasonal effects on the financial markets evolution. Among them there is the day-of-the-week effect, which consists in significant differences from the average returns on some days of the week than others. This paper investigates the...

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Let’s stop trying to be “sexy” – preparing managers for the (big) data-driven business era

Carillo, Kevin - In: Business Process Management Journal 23 (2017) 3, pp. 598-622

educational challenges inherent to the advent of a data-driven business world. It presents an analysis of the implications of … preparing future managers for the new data-driven business era. Design/methodology/approach The approach involves analysis and …: managers. In the data-driven business era, managers turn into manager-scientists who shall possess skills at the crossroad of …

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Customer engagement in a Big Data world

Kunz, Werner; Aksoy, Lerzan; Bart, Yakov; Heinonen, Kristina - In: Journal of Services Marketing 31 (2017) 2, pp. 161-171

sustainability of data-driven customer engagement requires a dynamic and iterative value generation process involving customers … perspectives to data-driven customer engagement. …

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How do top- and bottom-performing companies differ in using business analytics?

Cao, Guangming; Duan, Yanqing - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 30 (2017) 6, pp. 874-892

. Findings Top- and bottom-performing companies differ significantly in their use of BA, data-driven environment, and level of … fit between BA and data-drain environment. Practical implications Extensive use of BA and data-driven decisions will lead …

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The data-driven analytics for investigating cargo loss in logistics systems

Wu, Pei-Ju; Chen, Mu-Chen; Tsau, Chih-Kai - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 47 (2017) 1, pp. 68-83

Purpose Cargo loss has been a major issue in logistics management. However, few studies have tackled the issue of cargo loss severity via business analytics. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to provide guidance about how to retrieve valuable information from logistics data and to develop...

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Revisiting the resource-based view on logistics performance in the shipping industry

Yang, Chung-Shan; Lirn, Taih-Cherng - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 47 (2017) 9, pp. 884-905

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the impact of intrafirm resources, interfirm relationships, and logistics service capabilities on logistics performance (LP) in the context of container logistics. Design/methodology/approach Factor analysis was employed to identify...

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No More Weekend Effect

Robins, Russell P. - 2017

Before 1975, the mean weekend rate of return on the equal-weight (value-weight) stock market portfolio is significant -18bp (-19bp). After 1975, it is insignificant -5bp (-1bp). This break date is determined by a structural break test with unknown break date. The weekend effect is no longer an...

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