This article examines UK University Vice Chancellors (VC) pay awards. The empirical analysis, covering the period 1997-2002, evaluates the impact upon VC pay awards of university performance measures, internal pay comparisons and two external pay comparisons, that is, the pay of other VCs and...

While an extensive literature exists on the market impact of accounting disclosures, there is little prior work on the market impact of accounting disclosures on investment trusts within the UK. The prior literature that exists suggests an absence of information content. This paper investigates...

This study uses the event study method to compare the information content of annual accounting releases in sectors that differ in respect of the proportion of market value that may be attributed to intangibles. The results demonstrate that there are differences between industrial sectors in the...

Pedestrians who cross streets during the red-man phase of traffic light signals expose themselves to safety and health hazards and hence are considered to be at risk. Pedestrians’ street-crossing behavior is in general the outcome of interaction between pedestrians and vehicles: the gaps...

Logistic regression analysis can provide an estimate of the odds ratio (OR), adjusted for a number of confounders. It is known that it is approximately equal to the associated adjusted relative risk (RR) if the incidence of an outcome of interest is rare in a cohort study or a clinical trial...