This study finds that a strong bibliometric regularity exists in the publication pattern in the economics literature; the number of authors publishing n papers is approximately l/nc of those publishing one paper. The economics literature conforms very well to the model with c = 1.84 if data are...

This paper examines whether commercial success in the popular recorded-music industry, as measured by gold-record output, conforms to an empirical concentration. We find that Lotka's Law overestimates the number of artists with one gold record and underestimates the number of...

Purpose: Financial analysts have been found to be overconfident. The purpose of this paper is to study the ramifications of that overconfidence on the dispersion of earnings estimates as a predictor of the US business cycle. Design/methodology/approach: Whether aggregate analyst forecast...

This study examines whether investors overreact to bad news during good times and under react to bad news during bad times. We examine investors' reaction to bad news during economic cycles for a sample of 445 U.S. firms issuing voluntary disclosures of profit warnings prior to a quarterly...

This paper revisits the soybean crush spread arbitrage work of Simon (1999) by studying a longer time period, wider variety of entry and exit limits, and the risk-return relationship between entry and exit limits. The lengths of winning and losing trades are found to differ systematically, with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: discuss how reporting under a human resource liability paradigm fits into the traditional accounting framework of contingent liabilities; examine the financial effects of such reporting on market valuation and internal planning; and explore...

Recently published evidence of limited learning among American college students confirms the damage done when students, faculty, and institutions pursue interests that conflict with the educational process. The ‘disengagement compact' in which faculty tacitly trade lenient workloads and...

This paper is a more detailed description of data found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2317857' http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2317857.Additionally, A practical application is described here, so that the comparative process may be simplified, and a comparison may be made in the future as insurance...