SIMPLIFYING MARKET ACCESS: A NEW CONFIDENCE-BASED INTERFACE

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Florian Teschner ◽  
David Rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Point Estimate ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Market Rule ◽  
Dispersed Information ◽  
Barrier To Entry

Markets are a strong instrument for aggregating dispersed information, yet there are flaws. Markets are too complex for some users, they fail to capture massive amounts of their users’ relevant information, and they suffer from some individual-level biases. Based on recent research in polling environments, we design a new market interface that captures both a participant’s point estimate and confidence. The new interface lowers the barrier to entry, asks market’s implicit question more directly, and helps reduce known biases. We further utilize a novel market rule that supplements the interface with its simplicity. Thus, we find that market participants using our new interface: provide meaningful information and are more likely to submit profitable orders than using a standard market interface.

scholarly journals Extraction of Meaningful Information from the Web: a Brief Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.19) ◽  
pp. 1041
Author(s):  
Santosh V. Chobe ◽  
Dr. Shirish S. Sane
Keyword(s):  
Information Extraction ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Extraction Techniques ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
The Web

There is an explosive growth of information on Internet that makes extraction of relevant data from various sources, a difficult task for its users. Therefore, to transform the Web pages into databases, Information Extraction (IE) systems are needed. Relevant information in Web documents can be extracted using information extraction and presented in a structured format.By applying information extraction techniques, information can be extracted from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This paper presents some of the major information extraction tools. Here, advantages and limitations of the tools are discussed from a user’s perspective.  

scholarly journals Macroeconomic News, Order Flows, and Exchange Rates

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Love ◽  
Richard Payne
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Order Flow ◽  
Macroeconomic News ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Macroeconomic Announcements ◽  
Information Assimilation ◽  
Micro Level

AbstractIn textbook models of exchange rate determination, the news contained in public information announcements is directly impounded into prices with there being no role for trading in this process of information assimilation. This paper directly tests this theoretical result using transaction level exchange rate return and trading data and a sample of scheduled macroeconomic announcements. The main result of the paper is that even information that is publicly and simultaneously released to all market participants is partially impounded into prices via the key micro level price determinant—order flow. We quantify the role that order flow plays and find that approximately one third of price-relevant information is incorporated via the trading process.

scholarly journals Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Koppmair ◽  
Menale Kassie ◽  
Matin Qaim
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Recall Data ◽  
Smallholder Farm ◽  
Farm Produce ◽  
Production Diversity

AbstractObjectiveThe association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household-level dietary diversity indicators calculated from 7d food consumption recalls. Herein, this association is revisited with individual-level 24 h recall data. The robustness of the results is tested by comparing household- and individual-level estimates. The role of other factors that may influence dietary diversity, such as market access and agricultural technology, is also analysed.DesignA survey of smallholder farm households was carried out in Malawi in 2014. Dietary diversity scores are calculated from 24 h recall data. Production diversity scores are calculated from farm production data covering a period of 12 months. Individual- and household-level regression models are developed and estimated.SettingData were collected in sixteen districts of central and southern Malawi.SubjectsSmallholder farm households (n408), young children (n519) and mothers (n408).ResultsFarm production diversity is positively associated with dietary diversity. However, the estimated effects are small. Access to markets for buying food and selling farm produce and use of chemical fertilizers are shown to be more important for dietary diversity than diverse farm production. Results with household- and individual-level dietary data are very similar.ConclusionsFurther increasing production diversity may not be the most effective strategy to improve diets in smallholder farm households. Improving access to markets, productivity-enhancing inputs and technologies seems to be more promising.

Accruals and Future Stock Returns: Tests of the Naïve Investor Hypothesis

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashiq Ali ◽  
Lee-Seok Hwang ◽  
Mark A. Trombley
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Relative Magnitude ◽  
Quarterly Earnings ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Flow Components ◽  
Reported Earnings

We explore whether the association between accruals and future returns documented by Sloan (1996) is due to fixation by naïve investors on the total amount of reported earnings without regard for the relative magnitude of the accrual and cash flow components. Contrary to the predictions of the naïve investor hypothesis, we find that the predictive ability of accruals for subsequent annual returns and for quarterly earnings announcement stock returns is not lower for large firms or for firms followed more by analysts or held more by institutions. Further, we find that the ability of accruals to predict future returns does not seem to depend on stock price or transaction volume, measures of transaction costs, also contrary to predictions of the naïve investor hypothesis. These results are robust to regression and hedge portfolio tests. We conclude that the predictive ability of accruals for subsequent returns does not seem to be due to the inability of market participants to understand value-relevant information.

scholarly journals Text Summarization

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 24940-24945
Author(s):  
A. Vikas ◽  
Pradyumna G.V.N ◽  
Tahir Ahmed Shaik
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Text Summarization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Era ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Automatic Text Summarization ◽  
Automatic Text

In this new era, where tremendous information is available on the internet, it is most important to provide the improved mechanism to extract the information quickly and most efficiently. It is very difficult for human beings to manually extract the summary of a large documents of text. There are plenty of text material available on the internet. So, there is a problem of searching for relevant documents from the number of documents available and absorbing relevant information from it. In order to solve the above two problems, the automatic text summarization is very much necessary. Text summarization is the process of identifying the most important meaningful information in a document or set of related documents and compressing them into a shorter version preserving its overall meanings.

scholarly journals The Digital Library and the Archiving System for Educational Institutes

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-117
Author(s):  
Atta ur Rahman ◽  
Fahd Abdulsalam Alhaidari
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Query Languages ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Primary Representation ◽  
Information Repository

At present, there are several formats that exist through which data is distributed among online stakeholders. An example of this is the XML, which like other such formats is helpful for traditional inquiry methods and for forming the foundation of query languages such as SPARQL and SQL. Information about primary representation demands a broader assistance for the languages where every piece of data from any resource can substantiate the original queries for searching. Such models are useful for XML based retrieval since several cooperative XML search engines have been developed already. These search engines perform semantic investigation of XML files with data surrounded by the important fields. Therefore, XML files are used to store and index data intended for competent retrieval. In this research, an attempt is made to fill this gap of customized representation and retrieval with a focus on the educational domain. An institute's repository of books, e-books, journals, articles and research theses has been used to retrieve results. A system has been proposed and developed to store the contents of Institute's Databank as an object of the Digital Library. A structured method has been proposed to organize all the data and a system has been developed which extracts meaningful information from the Data Bank. The information repository is established, and the entire data is represented in terms of a unit called Digital Object in the Digital Library. The single unit is represented by recording some quantitative data about it referred to as ‘Metadata'. The search is focused on extracting meaningful information from the repository by applying some filtration strategies to get relevant information, best matched with the query terms. At the end, a partitioning and parallelism focused architecture to archive the information for sharing, back-up and collaboration is also proposed. Comparison of the proposed scheme with state of the art schemes is provided in terms of computational complexity and recall measurement.

Adjusting to working away and as an expatriate: learnings on what organisations can do to promote the mental health and well-being of workers and their families

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Melanie L. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Building Capability ◽  
The Military ◽  
Health And Well Being

Adjusting to frequent separations and reunions can put pressure on the relationships and families of those who work away. Although the work context is different, there are similar effects and challenges for workers, families and organisations across the military, expatriate and fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) research domains. Mental health, work performance, job satisfaction, relationships and parenting are all negatively affected by the extended periods of deployment or posting and the regular and ongoing shorter periods of FIFO work. At the individual level, personality dimensions (emotional stability, sociability, openness to new experiences), locus of control, intelligence, self-sufficiency and cultural intelligence have been shown to significantly affect these impacts and provide organisations with starting points for both the screening of candidates for roles and coaching them to better adjust and cope cross-culturally. The recruitment and onboarding processes should be underpinned by the principles of managing expectations and building capability, and this means that realistic and relevant information should focus on the realities of the work, the work environment and host country. The onboarding process that seeks to socialise the worker into the organisation and the culture should assume the worker will take at least 6 months to settle into the role. Predeparture training should engage with the worker and their families to ensure the development of coping skills and practical strategies for managing communication, parenting and relationships. Effectively managing the psychosocial risks faced by workers across these domains will improve the mental health and well-being of workers and their families.

scholarly journals The importance of patient perspectives in pulmonary hypertension

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1801919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. McGoon ◽  
Pisana Ferrari ◽  
Iain Armstrong ◽  
Migdalia Denis ◽  
Luke S. Howard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Pulmonary Hypertension ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Timely Access ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
The Individual

The assessment of objective measurement of cardiopulmonary status has helped us achieve better clinical outcomes for patients and develop new therapies through to the point of market access; however, patient surveys indicate that more can be done to improve holistic care and patient engagement. In this multidisciplinary review, we examine how clinical teams can acknowledge and embrace the individual patient's perspective, and thus improve the care for individual patients suffering from pulmonary hypertension by cultivating the importance and relevance of health-related quality of life in direct clinical care. At the individual level, patients should be provided with access to accredited specialist centres which provide a multidisciplinary approach where there is a culture focused on narrative medicine, quality of life, shared decision making and timely access to palliative care, and where there is participation in education. On a larger scale, we call for the development, expansion and promotion of patient associations to support patients and carers, lobby for access to best care and treatments, and provide input into the development of clinical trials and registries, focusing on the patients’ perspective.

The Role of Newswires in Screening and Disseminating Value-Relevant Information in Periodic SEC Reports

2011 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 669-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Xuejun Li ◽  
K. Ramesh ◽  
Min Shen
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Equity Capital ◽  
Similar Reaction ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Major Market ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Key Events

ABSTRACT: We examine the role of newswires in identifying and conveying market-moving information in periodic SEC reports to capital market participants. Using data on Dow Jones Newswires, we find that newswires are more likely to send alerts on firms that do not release preliminary earnings, have credit ratings, are included in major market indices, have litigation exposure, or report losses. Reflective of the market’s focus on certain key events, firms with a nonstandard audit opinion, in the process of delisting, reporting unusual accounting items, or raising equity capital also receive alerts. Moreover, not only do we find significant price and volume reactions to the alerts at the daily level, but also we document immediate intra-day market activity triggered by the alerts, whereas we detect no similar reaction for SEC filings that trigger the alerts. Additional analysis suggests that the intra-day reaction is not driven by noise trading.

scholarly journals Determinants of Market Participation and Intensity of Marketed Surplus Among Maize Producers in Fogera District of South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia: Heckman Two Stage Equation Approach.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walelgn Yalew Beadgie ◽  
Ponguru Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Market Participants

Abstract The agricultural productivity is low due to use of low level of improved agricultural technologies, risks associated with or no access to market facilities and low participation of the smallholder farmers. Hence the study focused on the specific objectives were to identify factors that affect market participation decision of households and to determine factors affecting the volume of market supply of maize. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from primary and secondary sources. The cross-sectional survey was conducted using structured questionnaire, key informant interviews, and focus-group discussions. A stratified stage sampling technique was used to draw 150 sample units using systematic random sampling technique. Descriptive statistics and Heckman Two-Stage model was employed. The result indicated that 56% of market participant were male headed, while 30.67% were female headed. Whereas 15.58% of non-market participants were male headed households, while 5.84% of non-market participants were female headed households. Out of 17 potential variables, seven variables age, area of maize, oxen number, distance to market, access to market information, member of cooperatives and inverse mill’s ratio were significantly influence the decision & extent participation in maize marketing. Therefore, the following points are recommended to develop sustainable production and marketing of maize that is locally adaptable and acceptable to increase the competitiveness of smallholder farmers: improving access to credit to apply fertilizer, farmers should rely on intensive cultivation rather than extensive cultivation and strengthen extension service.

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