Wei Song

Marcello Locatelli

Bin Chen

Shuai Ji

Wenzhi Yang

Xionghao Lin

Therapeutic Effects of Herbal Medicines: How Can We Best Investigate Bioactive Metabolites?

This thesis empirically investigates financial and investment decisions of banks and bank holding companies in a managerial behavioural approach with a view to ascertaining to what extent managerial psychology is as important as managerial incentive a determinant affecting the process of instituting an efficient bank governance mechanism. A large sample of US banks and bank holding companies over 1996-2006 is examined for the effects of irrational and powerful bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Integrating the analyses of both corporate governance and corporate finance, the thesis uncovers evidence that overconfident, dominating and overconfident-dominating bank CEOs have negative impact on bank financial decisions, such as M & As, payout policy and risk taking as they tend to overestimate their ability and underestimate possible risks of invested projects. Cognitive failures of this origin would have the worst fallout effects when the overconfident CEOs are also dominating the boards. Deploying Holder 67 and CEO-Chair as proxies for overconfidence and dominance factors respectively, the study shows that overconfident, dominating and overconfident-dominating CEOs are more likely to perform mergers with dubious quality, particularly in activity and geography diversifying mergers. The one- and two-year negative post-merger performance of banks ran by overconfident, dominating and overconfident-dominating CEOs bolsters the argument that mergers undertaken by these CEOs are economically undesirable. For the effects of psychological and cognitive biases on bank payout policy, results show that overconfident and overconfident-dominating CEOs are negatively related to the dividend payout ratio and total payout ratio. The negative association becomes stronger when the banks under examination have a higher degree of information asymmetry or with less growth opportunity. Evidence also confirms that CEO overconfidence, dominance and especially overconfidence-dominance have negative effects on bank risk control. CEOs with these attributes have a higher propensity for taking some bank-related risks, such as market-based risk, earnings volatility, credit risk and default risk. Overall, findings of this research suggest the essentiality of taking account of managerial psychological biases in reforming the existing bank governance mechanism, especially in designing appropriate compensation packages for executives and the desirable board composition for banks with overconfident-dominating CEOs.

The US Evidence

CEO Overconfidence and Dominance in Bank Financial Decisions

Doug Edwards (Supervisor.)

University of Manchester. School of Computer Science

Spatial Parallelism in the Routers of Asynchronous On-chip Networks

James Hendler

Xuemin Lin

Guojun Wang

Zhuoming Xu

Genggeng Liu

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2020, held in Guangzhou, China, in September 2020. The 42 full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 165 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on world wide web, recommendation, query processing and algorithm, natural language processing, machine learning, graph query, edge computing and data mining, data privacy and security, and blockchain.

17th International Conference, WISA 2020, Guangzhou, China, September 23–25, 2020, Proceedings

Web Information Systems and Applications

Xin Wang

Weiwei Ni

Yukun Li

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2019, held in Qingdao, China, in September 2019. The 39 revised full papers and 33 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 154 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on machine learning and data mining, cloud computing and big data, information retrieval, natural language processing, data privacy and security, knowledge graphs and social networks, blockchain, query processing, and recommendations.

16th International Conference, WISA 2019, Qingdao, China, September 20-22, 2019, Proceedings

Ling Feng

Weiyi Meng

Stephane Bressan

Werner Winiwarter

This two volume set LNCS 7825 and LNCS 7826 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in April 2013. The 51 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote talks, 1 invited paper, 3 industrial papers, 9 demo presentations, 4 tutorials and 1 panel paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 227 submissions. The topics covered in part 1 are social networks; query processing; nearest neighbor search; index; query analysis; XML data management; privacy protection; and uncertain data management; and in part 2: graph data management; physical design; knowledge management; temporal data management; social networks; query processing; data mining; applications; and database applications.

18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings

Database Systems for Advanced Applications

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