VOLUME 13(2) • 2018
COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM THE U.S.
ABSTRACT. This article reviews recent literature (e.g. Bargigli and Tedeschi, 2014; Barnett, 2017; Dumas and Louche, 2016; Noble, 2015; Tang and Tang, 2014; Zhao and Duan, 2014) concerning the relationship between cognitive performance and labor market outcomes. Using data from Current Population Su..
THE EARNINGS–RETURN ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY AND NON-FAMILY INDONESIAN FIRMS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
ABSTRACT. This study examines the association between reported earnings and stock returns in a sample of corporations listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during the 2009–2014 period. The sample of 476 firm-year observations are divided between family firms and non-family firms for comparative a..
PRICING A SWING CONTRACT IN A GAS SALE COMPANY
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we evaluate a swing option contract embedded in a real world gas sales agreement. Under special conditions, contracts of this kind can be seen as a strip of American spread options, where the spread is the difference between a calculated contract price and the market price f..
DRIVE-IN THEATRES, TECHNOLOGY, AND CULTURAL CHANGE
ABSTRACT. At their peak, in the 1950s, nearly 4,500 drive-in theatres existed in the United States. Rivaled by around 5,500 indoor cinemas today, only 319 drive-ins remain. I contrast how the nature of the audience itself has altered the use of space in drive-in theatres from family viewing environm..
APPLYING A COMBINED MAX-MIN SIMPLE MOVING AVERAGE TRADING STRATEGY TO MARKET INDEXES
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we propose and recommend a new combined moving average trading rule based on max-min strategy. It outperforms the traditional simple moving average trading rules for Buy and Sell-day returns by a factor of 10 to 20 in the DJIA, the NASDAQ, and the S&P. It also outperform..