Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has successfully been used for product and production planning in Total Quality Management (TQM) literature. Among the four phases in QFD methodology, product planning is the first phase. House of Quality (HOQ) is a customary technique used in product planning...

Short selling can be driven by various motivations, such as anticipation of negative returns, hedging, etc., which cause short positions to contain heterogeneous information. However, past studies focus primarily on short positions to predict negative stock returns. In this paper, we refine...