Delivering flexible and effective products to the small to medium enterprise SME market has been a difficult feat, as obviously those SMEs want the functionality of the products that are developed for large enterprises but often do not have the personnel or budgets for the integration mammoth CRM implementations require....
This paper examines the trading of individual investors around stock splits and find that splits are associated with a change in investor clientele. A higher fraction of post-split trades is made by less sophisticated investors. The paper also finds that individual investor's trade more frequently after splits and that trade...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7 -- Debbie Roberts well knows that it takes time to build a beauty salon clientele. And she's pleased with the growth of Sunset Hairlines since she opened the shop in Sunset Plaza a month ago. ...
If the sales at two residential projects ar a good indicator, the trends on tony Longboat Key near Sarasota point toward a growing international clientele and even more upscale living. Richard Sheets, managing director of two high-end projects for Yale Properties, The Sanctuary and...
VILNIUS AFP — Smokers in European Union member state Lithuania were forced to indulge their habit in the streets after a ban on smoking in public establishments took effect at the start of the year. A law against smoking in cafes, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, discotheques and other public establishments --...
Initiations and omissions of dividend payments are important changes in corporate financial policy. This paper investigates the market reaction to such changes in terms of prices, volume, and changes in clientele.However, the post dividend omission drift is distinct from and more pronounced than that following earnings surprises. A trading rule...
If Litu Island is exotic, is it fascinatingly foreign, or frighteningly alien? Expedia.com helps its clientele find out-before they book the trip-in spots from ... If Litu Island is exotic, is it fascinatingly foreign, or frighteningly alien? Expedia.com helps its clientele find out-before they book...
This article argues that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity methodology to estimate the effect...
This paper offers a novel explanation for why some firms prefer to pay dividends rather than repurchase shares. It is well-known that institutional investors are relatively less taxed than individual investors, and that this induces dividend clientele effects. It is argued in the paper that these clientele effects are the...
The paper uses forecast errors made by the Federal Reserve while preparing open market operations to identify a liquidity effect at a daily frequency in the federal funds market. Unlike Hamilton (1997), the paper finds a liquidity effect on many days of the reserve maintenance period besides settlement day. The...
The medical establishment has long held that a substance can have a medicinal effect simply because a patient believes it will. The conventional wisdom about this placebo effect, which harks back to a paper published in 1955, has been that it works for one patient in three. That's not a...
Merrill Lynch & Co. has become bullish on the millionaire next door, but reaching him or her required a new game plan. The financial services company set out to expand its clientele from its traditional multimillionaires and corporations, to inve Merrill Lynch & Co. has become...
The medical establishment has long held that a substance can have a medicinal effect simply because a patient believes it will. The conventional wisdom about this placebo effect, which harks back to a paper published in 1955, has been that it works for one patient in ...
There are various paths through which globalization are channelled to the labour market. One of these is the effect on labour demand elasticity. Trade might induce an increase in this elasticity via a scale effect due to the increased competition on the output market and/or via a substitution effect generated...
Dec. 15--Phoenix East Aviation Inc., a flight school with international clientele, plans to spread its wings in Jacksonville. Dec. 15--Phoenix East Aviation Inc., a flight school with international clientele, plans to spread its wings in Jacksonville.
WHEN Citigroup bought Associates First Capital last September, it probably thought that it was taking no great risk. Here was a wonderfully profitable business, albeit one with a rather low-grade clientele. America's largest bank paid a cool $31 bill WHEN Citigroup bought Associates First Capital last...
As a professional wedding photographer meeting the needs of an increasingly demanding high-end clientele, you shouldn't have to sacrifice picture quality in your quest for speed. Now you don't have to. The Nikon D2x is a breakthrough in digit ...
Byline: Brooke Southall SAN FRANCISCO - In a huge survey of its clientele, Schwab Institutional documented what financial advisers have been screaming about for years. Accounts that clients transfer from wirehouse brokers have investmen ...
