… For each security j we used the market model to calculate an excess return, or prediction …
L j, where Lj is the number of trading days between press and completion for firm j. The …

… For each security j we estimate the market model and compute an excess return, or … To
measure abnormal returns over a specific interval for firm j we sum the prediction errors to give …

… James Owers Georgia State University … Chapter 1, by James Owers, Rod Carveth, and
Alison Alexander, is designed to provide a framework of reference in economics and business. …

… Owers J. The effect of executive succession on stockholder wealth of large corporations. …
Owers is an associate professor of finance at the University of Massachusetts. He received …

… Owers is an associate professor of finance and assistant chairman, Department of General
Business and Finance, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests …

… Verbally, the required ROR on security “j” is the sum of a risk-free rate of return (the “price of
… Betaj = The Covariance of returns of security “j” and the return on the market, standardized …

We analyze the costs and benefits of clawback provisions that enable firms to recover
incentive compensation from top management if financials are restated. In a simple contracting …

Background Although schools are an ideal location to conduct interventions that target children,
the emphasis on standardized testing makes it difficult to implement interventions that do …

Massive Open Online Courses represent a fertile ground for examining student behavior.
However, due to their openness MOOC attract a diverse body of students, for the most part, …

… the methodology described in Dodd and Warner [6], and Hite and Owers [7]. The test statistic
Z, described by Dodd … s2 = residual variance for security j from the market model regression; …