According to the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer (BC) is one of the most deadly cancers diagnosed among middle-aged women. Precise diagnosis and prognosis are crucial to reduce the high death rate. In this paper we present a framework for automatic malignancy grading of fine needle aspiration biopsy tissue. The malignancy grade is one of the most important factors taken into cons...

Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by foreign investors and by Hungarian institutional investors.. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneus equity structures, where dominant categories of owners aim at achieving controlling stakes. Here, the foreign investors...

This chapter provides an empirical analysis of interactions between FDI flows and domestic investment in capacity. As a motivation for the empirical analysis, I provide highlights of a new theory of FDI. The theory captures unique feature: hands-on management standards, that enable investors to react in real time to ongoing changes in the economic environment, which surrounds investors. Equippe...

The conjecture that investor sentiment leads important groups of investors to act similarly and thereby affect prices is an important ingredient of models of noise trading and style investing. In contrast to Lakonishok et al. (1992), who find only weak evidence of herding among institutional investors and conjecture that retail investors will herd even less, we document that a sample of over 30...

Anchor Investors in IPOs In July 2009, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) permitted a version of bookbuilding in which IPO managers solicit bids from and allocate allocations to anchor investors in the IPO pre-market, subject to disclosure of the price, quantity, and identity of anchors participating in the pre-market bookbuilding. We obtain share allocation data in anchor IPOs. ...

This paper examines responses from a survey of 2,000 randomly selected mutual fund investors who purchased shares from six different distribution channels. The survey provides data on the demographic, financial, and fund ownership characteristics of mutual fund investors. It also provides data on investors’ knowledge of the costs and investment risks of mutual funds and the information sources ...

Abstract To profit from price oscillations, investors frequently use threshold-type strategies where changes in the portfolio position are triggered by some indicators reaching prescribed levels. In this paper we investigate context of ergodic control. We make first steps towards their optimization proving properties related functionals. Assuming Markovian increments satisfying a minorization c...

This research aims to investigate the effect of conservative reporting on the investors' opinion divergence at the time of earnings announcement in a 5 year period during 2012-2016; the required data have been collected from Tehran Securities and Stock Exchange Organization and the population is consisted of 585 corporates-years which have been selected by the systematic removal sampling. To in...

In this paper, we are examining the relationship between stock trading costs and commitment components and find both abnormal and normal commitments associated with these costs are associated. Moreover, stock trading costs have a greater influence by both abnormal and normal negative commitments more than positive commitments. Further analysis has shown that in general, investors are unable to ...

In today's investment world there is emphasis on the role of accounting information. Behavioral factors always play an important role in financial markets. All investors are not rational and their demand for riskiness of assets is influenced by their beliefs and feelings. Optimism, pessimism, self-confidence, ambiguity-aversion, etc. help changing the manner of decision-making process over time...