This paper examines newly-available intra-day data from the interdealer government bond market to investigate the effects of economic-news announcements on prices, trading volume, and bid-ask spreads. The use of this new data set together with data on market expectations allows us to obtain new and different results regarding which announcements are important relative to previous studies. In fa...

The Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach (CSO) connects university scientists to the K-12 community to enhance and improve science education. The Virtual Scientist program utilizes interactive videoconference (IVC) to facilitate this connection, providing 40-50 sessions per academic year to a national audience. Scientists, defined as research faculty members, clinicians, postdoctor...

In this paper, we explore the impact of delay announcements using an empirical approach by analyzing the data from a medium-sized call center. We first explore the question of whether delay announcements impact customers’ behavior using a nonparametric approach. The answer to this question appears to be ambiguous. We thus turn to investigate the fundamental mechanism by which delay announcement...

Our proposed project is a recommendations component for web-based announcements system to be used by Cal Poly portal users. The system may hold at any time hundreds of past, present and future announcements or events pulled from disparate sources for display. To facilitate display of announcements, we will develop a recommendation system to select and sort the top announcements for a given user.

This study examines stock market reactions to announcements of information technology investments in Poland, an emerging market and transition economy. Based on 68 announcements by companies traded at the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the period 2002 to 2009, our study confirms some previously published results, but also shows that specific characteristics of announcements play a more important role...

We inspect how inflation target announcements are instrumental in building central bank credibility and shaping the public’s inflation expectations. Investigating the role of announcements in two early adopters of inflation targeting by using a time varying credibility measure, we find that both the accuracy and the frequency of inflation announcements have a positive impact on how much attenti...