The exchange maker-taker pricing scheme affects incentives to take or make markets resulting in narrower bid-ask spreads. This study traces the effect of maker-taker pricing on stock quotations. The analyses consider distributions of quotation sizes, values implied from these sizes, and changes in these sizes and values. The results help inform the current debate on whether tick sizes should be...

Computer-based assessments are becoming more commonplace, perhaps as a necessity for faculty to cope with large class sizes. These tests often occur in large computer testing venues in which test security may be compromised. In an attempt to limit the likelihood of cheating in such venues, randomised presentation of items is automatically programmed into testing software, such that neighbouring...

The accessibility of video technology has made it possible to utilize both the auditory and visual channels to present listening texts in the second language (L2) classroom and on L2 listening tests. However, there has been little research investigating the extent to which L2 listeners actually watch the video monitor when presented with a listening video text. The current study investigated te...

Over the last five decades, research in teaching and testing (academic) listening has investigated different foci. Initially, involved bottom-up approaches (Dirven Oakeshott-Taylor, 1984) then both higher- lower-level processes were integrated (Voss, 1984). In early 2000s, input formats (Read, 2002) discourse features of lectures (Thompson, 2003) subjects academic research. More recently, EAP t...

This study aimed to analyze the comparison of Tabela system rice farming with Tapin system. The research was conducted in East Tanjung Jabung Regency, Jambi Province. sample villages are Lagan Ulu Village and Simbur Naik Village. size 90 farmers, 45 farmers lowland farming, Sampling Simple Random Method. data analysis method used descriptive analysis, production function Cobb-Douglass Stochasti...

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose members are more than 200 law schools in the the Council was founded in 1947 to facilitate the law school admission process. The Council has grown to provide numerous products and services to law schools and to more than 85,000 law school applicants each year. All law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) ...