This paper outlines a number of key lessons learned from an investigation into the techniques malicious executable software can employ to hinder digital forensic examination. Malware signature detection has been recognised by researchers to be far less than ideal. Thus, the forensic analyst may be required to manually analyse suspicious files. However, in order to hinder the forensic analyst, h...

This study demonstrates that standard analyst coverage proxies contain information about firm-level expected returns. I decompose analyst coverage proxies into abnormal and expected components using a simple characteristic-based model and show that firms with abnormally high coverage outperform firms with abnormally low coverage by approximately 80 basis points per month. Abnormal analyst cover...

Considering the product is not enough in SQA you must also consider the development process. This model addresses both needs. B ecause software affects more and more aspects of our life, the costB effective development and maintenance of high-quality software is increasingly important. Software quality assurance (SQA) has become an indispensable dimension of software development, designed to gu...

Building on prior results that financial analysts have an information advantage relative to managers at the macroeconomic level, we show such is important source of what learn from in making investment decisions. Specifically, sensitivity corporate capital analyst forecasts firm earnings or long-term growth positively associated with exposure a firm’s operations factors, including business cycl...

We examine whether exogenous and extremely negative events, such as terrorist attacks mass shootings, influence the sentiment forecasts of sell-side equity analysts. find that analysts who are local to these issue relatively more pessimistic than consensus forecast. This effect is stronger when analyst closer event located in a low-crime region. Impacted also around one- two-year anniversaries ...

It is well known that equity analysts choose to cover firms about which they have favorable views. We exploit this fact and use analysts’ coverage decisions to infer their preferences for corporate policies. Next, we show that firms cater to analysts’ preferences. Firms exogenously losing analyst coverage subsequently change their corporate policies away from the preferences of the analyst that...

Most intelligence analysis tasks require the analyst to have a mastery of a sequence of events. Tools supporting intelligence analysis must aid the analyst in untangling a variety of time related problems, including overlapping durations for events, and imprecise, incomplete, or conflicting information. Tools require both strong date and time identification/extraction and a flexible presentatio...