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How Important are Earnings Announcements as an Information Source?

In a competitive information market, a single information source can only dominate other sources individually, not collectively. We explore whether earnings announcements constitute such a dominant source using Ball and Shivakumar’s (2008) R metric: the proportion of the variation in annual returns explained by the four quarterly earnings announcement returns. We find that the earnings announce...

Announcements Editorial Letters on Privacy in Location - based Services Privacy - Preserving Techniques

This article presents an overview of privacy problems and solutions to date in location basedservices, with the emphasis on understanding location privacy issues, alternative models, andarchitectures. It concludes with an outlook in location privacy research and its impact on mobileInternet, pervasive computing, and geo-spatial data management. Privacy Risks in Location Based Servic...

News/Announcements

The Massage Therapy Foundation presented the second Highlighting Massage Therapy in CIM Research conference, May 13 – 15, 2010. This three-day conference (supported in part by RI3AT005420 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) brought together massage and manual therapy practitioners, educators, CIM researchers, allied health professionals, and others interested in...

Editorial: Health Disparities—An Important Public Health Policy Concern