How People Update Beliefs about Climate Change: Good News and Bad News

Good News and Bad News about Share Repurchases*

We estimate the cross-sectional relationship between open market repurchases and accounting data for a large sample of dividend-paying and non-dividend-paying firms over a twelve year period (1984-95). Consistent with the hypothesis that firms use open market repurchases to reduce the agency costs of free cash flow, we find that repurchases are positively related to proxies for free cash flow a...

hiv/aids good news and bad news

Good and Bad News about Ebola

Filoviruses have been known to science and medicine since 1967 (Marburg virus) and 1976 (Ebola virus). Since then, more than 30 independent transmission events have been documented between the zoonotic world and the human world, and more than 2,300 human cases have been recorded [1]. The outbreak that began inWest Africa in 2014, however, has changed the equation considerably; although it began...

Good News vs. Bad News: What are they talking about?

Today’s massive news streams demand the automate analysis which is provided by various online news explorers. However, most of them do not provide sentiment analysis. The main problem of sentiment analysis of news is the differences between the writers and readers attitudes to the news text. News can be good or bad but have to be delivered in neutral words as pure facts. Although there are appl...

Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big

Lisp has done quite well over the last ten years: becoming nearly standardized, forming the basis of a commercial sector, achieving excellent performance, having good environments, able to deliver applications. Yet the Lisp community has failed to do as well as it could have. In this paper I look at the successes, the failures, and what to do next. The Lisp world is in great shape: Ten years ag...