This paper examines the timing and profitability of insider trading in Canada from 1987 to 2000. In contrast to studies done on earlier time periods, we find that insiders are net sellers of shares. This is especially true of senior officers who sell nearly seven shares for every share they purchase. We attribute this change to the increased use of stock options as compensation. Insiders are sh...

Of course, I do not mean by the title of this paper to deny the existence of something called ‘the mind’. But I do mean to call into question appeals to it in analyzing cognitive notions such as understanding and knowing, where its domain is taken to be independent of what one might find out in cognitive science. In this respect, I am expressing the skepticism of Sellars in “Empiricism and the ...

This paper reviews and assesses the privatization of the banking sector in Hungary. Most of the important developments in the area took place in the period between 1995-98. Nevertheless, the choices made by Hungarian policy makers reflect both internal constraints stemming from the end of central planning to the adoption of market-determined mechanisms as well as external macroeconomic shocks a...

F. Wilfrid Lancaster has earned a reputation for greatness in the evaluation of information storage and retrieval systems. Many of his extensive contributions stem from his early experience with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) MEDLARS system. His evaluation of the MEDLARS Demand Search Service in 1966 and 1967 was an important landmark as one of the earliest evaluations of a computer-bas...