THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LXIV‚ NO. 5 • OCTOBER 2009 Driven to Distraction: Extraneous Events and Underreaction to Earnings News DAVID HIRSHLEIFER‚ SONYA SEONGYEON LIM‚ and SIEW HONG TEOH∗ ABSTRACT Recent studies propose that limited investor attention causes market underreactions. This paper directly tests this explanation by measuring the information load faced by investors. The investor distraction hypothesis holds that extraneous news inhibits market reactions to relevant news. We find
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I chose to interview my Grandma‚ Catherine Reda‚ for the Back Then assignment to get some insight into her life and understand what money was like when she was younger. The grandma I interviewed is my mom’s mom‚ she is currently 71 years old. She grew up in California‚ but then moved to Louisiana and then eventually to Michigan where she still resides today. Her very first job‚ other than babysitting‚ was when she went to LSU and worked at a local library making $.24 an hour. She went to school to
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nation has. The diversity in culture and tradition is well reflected in the folk dances. All the popular dances in India forms from different states portray some expression of life and almost every dance posture has a specific meaning. A D V E R T I S E M E N T Random : Best DJ Software to Mix Songs Top 10 Popular Dance Forms of India Source (Images‚ Text) : Wikipedia Kathak Kathak (Hindi: कथक‚ Urdu: کتھک) is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms‚ originated from northern India. This dance
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SHORT STORY TITLE: SHAME Shame is a short story by Shirley Lim‚ depicting the Chinese culture in Malaysia. Shame talks about how women in Baba Nyonya culture must behave according to their society’s expectation. The main character in this story is Mei Sim‚ 6 years old girl who was stuck in her society’s culture. The story took place in the most historic country‚ Malacca at early independence of Malaysia. It is about Mei Sim who always been nagged by her mother because of a small mistakes. Mei Sim’s
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How Is Catherine Morland presented in Volume one? Northanger Abbey’s primary trajectory is the development of the main female character. Even though Catherine Morland is not a typical female Bildungsroman‚ her realisations in who she is and who she is becoming are very evident throughout the novel. George Willis defines the Bildungsroman as “a novel which traces the spiritual‚ moral‚ psychological‚ or social development and growth of the main character towards maturity.” In this novel‚ the main
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Professor Catherine Orr teaches critical identity studies at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She says when she discusses whiteness her white students see race as‚ “What other people have.” Is this to say that they see themselves as having no race? Race is something other people have‚ but not me. While I don’t believe this‚ entirely‚ I do understand it. For me I don’t identify myself as being white‚ until I am asked directly‚ from a questionnaire. But‚ normally me being white it is not something I think
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Both Lim Goh Tong and Oprah Winfrey are similar in terms of how values and teachings from family has affected them and made who are them today. Definitely‚ family brings a huge impact on anyone’s development as everything will start from home at the first stage. They are also alike in a way they have faced a lot of deprivations back in their past whereby I believe these hardships which shaped them into someone they are today. They are in contrast of family backgrounds. Lim comes from a happy and
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Catherine the Great was the Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796. She was the longest ruling female monarch of Russia. Catherine‚ a German princess‚ was not expected to become Queen‚ let alone one of the most important and enlightened rulers in history because she had no legitimate claim to the throne. The first book that will be discussed is Catherine the Great: A Short History by Isabel de Madariaga‚ a professor emeritus of Slavic Studies at University of London (Madariaga). The second book
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Catherine‚ tells in her writing that‚ although “sin is more gravely punished after the passion of Christ than before; and how God promises to do mercy to the world. and to the Holy Church‚ by means of the prayers and suffering of His servants. Catherine understood the dialogue from God being expressed as such‚ I sent my Son here that shed Blood for my people. And it is like they are taking it for granted. Instead of them getting better they are getting worst. One has to have full knowledge of Christ
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Melanie Salgado 10-16-17 Jessica Edward and Amanda Edward St. Catherine of Siena "I desire‚ O Lord‚ to live here always conformed to your passion‚ and to find pain and suffering my repose and delight." Saint Catherine of Siena was born was March 25‚ 1347 and died on April 29‚ 1380. She was canonized on July 1341 by Pope Pius II. The date of her feast is on April 29th. Saint Catherine of Siena is the patron saint against fire‚ bodily ills‚ illnesses‚ miscarriages‚ and sexual temptations‚ and she
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