HE record one-day decline in stock prices on October19, 1987, stripped roughly 22 pet-cent from stock values. More disconcerting, however, wet-c the speed of the adjustment, the tumultuous ti-ading activity in financial markets and the uncertainty that prevailed during the week of October 19. These aspects of the crash bore a surprising resemblance to previous financial panics that many thought...

In Switzerland, annual surveys to substantiate freedom from infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) and enzootic bovine leucosis (EBL) are implemented by a random allocation of farms to the respective survey as well as blood sampling of individual animals at farm level. Contrary to many other European countries, bulk-tank milk (BTM) samples have not been used for active cattle disease surveilla...

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We examine the value of jumbo certificate-of-deposit (CD) signals in bank surveillance. To do so, we first construct proxies for default premiums and deposit runoffs and then rank banks based on these risk proxies. Next, we rank banks based on the output of a logit model typical of the econometric models used in off-site surveillance. Finally, we compare jumbo-CD rankings and surveillance-model...

Financial compliance requires banks to maintain sophisticated customer screening and transaction surveillance systems that pose data quality and data availability challenges. Effort is concentrated on data collection and data consolidation, leaving less time for higher-level analysis. NA platform leverages the power of semantic technologies in three different areas (Domain, Regulation, Process)...

After the Shewhart method was suggested for industrial applications, other applications such as surveillance for bioterrorism and financial transactions have come into focus. Also other methods for surveillance have followed. The relation between the Shewhart method and the followers is examined. A uniform presentation of methods, by expressions of likelihood ratios, facilitates the comparisons...

Exploring Financial Reporting Fraud with GHSOM Rua-Huan Tsaih, Wan-Ying Lin, Shin-Ying Huang Identifying Firm-Specific Risk Statements in News Articles Hsin-Min Lu, Wan-Hsin Huang, Zhu Zhang, Tsai-Jyh Chen Predicting Future Earnings Change Using Numeric and Textual Information in Financial Reports * Kuo-Tay Chen, JuChun Yen, Tsai-Jyh Chen 11: 35 AM Session 3: Emergency Response and Surveillance...

Electronic markets and automated trading have resulted in a drastic increase in the quantity and complexity of regulatory data. Regulatory analysis now includes detailed analysis of all messaging and communications related to electronic limit order books. New order types, intra-market behavior and other exchange functionality further complicate analysis. Data visualizations have proven to be a ...

BACKGROUND Previous efforts to forecast future trends in obesity applied linear forecasts assuming that the rise in obesity would continue unabated. However, evidence suggests that obesity prevalence may be leveling off. PURPOSE This study presents estimates of adult obesity and severe obesity prevalence through 2030 based on nonlinear regression models. The forecasted results are then used t...