We explore the role of comparables in price formation. Using data on corporate loans, we exploit the lag between loans’ closing dates and their inclusion in a widely-used comparables database to identify the causal effect of past transactions on new transaction pricing. We find that comparables pricing is an important determinant of individual loan spreads, but a failure to account for the over...

Visual Cognition Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713683696 Offsets and prioritizing the selection of new elements in search displays: More evidence for attentional capture in the preview effect Jay Pratt a; Jan Theeuwes b; Mieke Donk b a University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada b Vrije Universite...

The pyloric network of the stomatogastric ganglion of the lobster generates motor patterns with speciic phase-lags between single neurons. This network inspired us to investigate a simpliied model consisting of three mono-directionally coupled Morris-Lecar oscillators. We have systematically analyzed the high-dimensional space of the synaptic parameters and identiied parameter combinations whic...

Operator monotone functions play an important role in economics. We show that 2-monotonicity is equivalent to decreasing relative risk premium, a notion recently introduced in microeconomics. We also show that an operator monotone function is risk vulnerable, a notion introduced by Gollier and Pratt.

A palstar (after Knuth, Morris, and Pratt) is a concatenation of even-length palindromes. We show that, asymptotically, there are Dkα n k palstars of length 2n over a k-letter alphabet, where Dk and αk are positive constants with 2k−1 < αk < 2k − 1 2 . In particular, α2 . = 3.33513193.

The Diverse Japanese: Local History's Challenge to National Narratives in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction Jonathan Dresner 2 Community and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Re-consideration Edward Pratt 5 Lost in History: Aizu and the Meiji Restoration John E. Van Sant 14 Meiji Education and the Uses of Local History Brian Platt 20 Sacred Sites and the Dynamics of Identity Sarah T...

N. Theodoropoulou, A. Sharma, W.P. Pratt Jr., and J. Bass Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Fundamental Materials Science, and Center for Sensor Materials, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-2320, USA Mark Stiles, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6202, USA. Jiang Xiao* School of Physi...