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Publication date: 3 September 2019

Corey A. Shank

This paper aims to examine market inefficiencies in the National Football League (NFL) betting market from the 2003 season to the 2016 season.

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Purpose

This paper aims to examine market inefficiencies in the National Football League (NFL) betting market from the 2003 season to the 2016 season.

Design/methodology/approach

The author examines the impact that division rivals and previously known determinants of inefficiencies have on the current NFL gambling market.

Findings

The results show that games against division rivals have a lower chance of the home team covering the spread and the chance the game will result in an over. This result demonstrates that the sportsbooks underestimate the familiarity that teams have with each other’s players, coaches and tendencies from playing each other twice per year. Moreover, using this result in conjunction with previous known inefficiencies, the author puts forth a model to test out of sample predictions. The results from these tests show profitable strategies in the point spread and totals market with a win rate of nearly 57 per cent.

Originality/value

Overall, this paper demonstrates inefficiencies in the NFL betting market that future bettors may be able to take advantage of.

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Studies in Economics and Finance, vol. 36 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1086-7376

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Publication date: 11 June 2018

Corey Allen Shank

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether business students deceive others more often than non-business students.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether business students deceive others more often than non-business students.

Design/methodology/approach

A cheap talk experiment and an ethics questionnaire are employed to examine the subject’s behavior. Fundamental differences, such as psychopathic personality, are used to examine their role in deceptive and unethical behavior.

Findings

The results show that business students deceive others for personal gain more often than non-business students when there is the most to gain; however, business students find deception committed by others as unethical. Business students exhibit more psychopathic tendencies compared to non-business students, including being more likely to fit the prototypical psychopath profile. This fundamental difference in psychopathy can help explain why individuals deceive others and behave unethically.

Practical implications

These results have important implications for the business industry and the design of policies.

Originality/value

Thus, this study endeavors to advance the literature on fundamental distinctions between those who work in high levels of organizations and how this fundamental difference impacts decision making.

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Review of Behavioral Finance, vol. 10 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1940-5979

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Publication date: 19 June 2020

Corey A. Shank, Brice Dupoyet, Robert Durand and Fernando Patterson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between psychopathy and its underlying traits and financial risk and time preferences.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between psychopathy and its underlying traits and financial risk and time preferences.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors measure risk and time preferences using both the cumulative prospect theory and quasi-hyperbolic time discounting in a sample of business majors. The Psychopathic Personality Inventory – Revised test is then used to measure the global psychopathy and eight primary and two secondary traits of the sample of business majors. The measures of psychopathy are used as explanatory variables to model variation in subjects’ time and risk preferences.

Findings

The authors find that the overall score on the continuum of psychopathy is positively related to the linearity of the cumulative prospective utility function. A breakdown of psychopathy into its secondary and primary traits shows a more complex relation. For example, the secondary trait of self-centered impulsivity is statistically significant in models of financial risk preference determinants under the cumulative prospect theory. The authors find that the primary traits of self-centered impulsivity and stress immunity are related to a higher time preference discount rate under quasi-hyperbolic time preferences.

Originality/value

This paper adds to the literature on personality and financial decisions and highlights the importance of psychopathy in finance.

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Studies in Economics and Finance, vol. 38 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1086-7376

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Publication date: 11 February 2022

John Nofsinger, Fernando M. Patterson and Corey Shank

The authors examine how local firms, regardless of industry, influence each other's corporate policies. The authors argue that there are two motives for why local firms may have…

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Purpose

The authors examine how local firms, regardless of industry, influence each other's corporate policies. The authors argue that there are two motives for why local firms may have similar corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. First, the peer effect argues that a firm's chief executive officer (CEO) will likely interact regularly with fellow CEOs of local firms, especially those of similar size, influencing each other's firm to make similar decisions. Second, firms may believe that CSR policies can be used to attract local talent. That is, if there are many firms in the area, employees may elect to work for the firm that treats their employees better or shares their values. Thus, to compete for labor resources, local firms will herd in similar CSR policies.

Design/methodology/approach

Through regression analysis, the authors compare a firm's CSR policies to the policies of other firms in the geographic area (within 100 miles).

Findings

The authors find support for the peer effect hypothesis, as local firms of the same size positively and significantly affect a firm's own CSR score. In contrast, local firms of different sizes have a negative relationship. The combination of CSR scores being related to the CSR scores of similar sized firms and not to other size firms suggest that the peer effect dominates the labor pool effect.

Originality/value

Through regression analysis, the authors compare a firm's CSR policies to the policies of other firms in the geographic area.

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International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol. 19 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1743-9132

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Publication date: 13 March 2007

Jane Scales, Danel Wolf, Corey Johnson and Lara Cummings

The purpose of this paper is to model a practical solution to the lack of library modules within commercial courseware.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to model a practical solution to the lack of library modules within commercial courseware.

Design/methodology/approach

A comprehensive examination of the technical, political, and practical issues surrounding this problem provides the framework for designing a dynamic administrative tool that facilitates information access for distance courses.

Findings

There are many different programming languages and models librarians can use to implement similar course modules. If librarians lack the skills to build these applications, student workers skilled in computer science can help.

Practical implications

This and similar models of organizing resources and information for distance students has an immediate impact on services to online users, leveraging of resources and tangible benefits to the student.

Originality/value

Librarians need to build their own technological solutions to serve their users when the commercial world is not addressing a real need.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 23 June 2020

Andrew Ssemwanga and Enakshi Sengupta

The early twenty-first century saw a rise in corporate scandals with Enron and WorldCom grabbing the newspaper headlines. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools in Business…

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The early twenty-first century saw a rise in corporate scandals with Enron and WorldCom grabbing the newspaper headlines. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools in Business realized the significance of imparting education in ethics mainly to the students studying business management and thus a task force was established to examine and report on the current status of ethics education in business schools (Waples, Antes, Murphy, Connelly, & Mumford, 2009). The task force published a report that strongly advocated a course in business ethics that will help business management students cope with ethical dilemmas in their decision-making process. In Eastern Africa, Business Ethics as a subject of teaching and research has expanded at a significant level mainly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. This chapter presents an evaluation and critical discussion of current business ethics education in St Lawrence University in Uganda. The chapter will discuss issues related to teaching business ethics in an African context and the relevance of the subject to the current students enrolled in business courses and how it can contribute to promoting social responsibility through higher education.

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Civil Society and Social Responsibility in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Curriculum and Teaching Development
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83909-464-4

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Publication date: 1 March 1983

Anita M. Kennedy

I. INTRODUCTION This study attempts to extend and expand previous research conducted by the Department of Marketing at Strathclyde on the adoption and diffusion of industrial…

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I. INTRODUCTION This study attempts to extend and expand previous research conducted by the Department of Marketing at Strathclyde on the adoption and diffusion of industrial products.

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European Journal of Marketing, vol. 17 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0566

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Publication date: 1 April 2004

Corey H. Brouse, Charles E. Basch, Randi L. Wolf and Celia Shmukler

The purpose of this study was to describe barriers to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among a low income, urban sample. Participants were active members, or dependents, of a…

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The purpose of this study was to describe barriers to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among a low income, urban sample. Participants were active members, or dependents, of a health care workers' union the New York City metropolitan area. The sample comprised 60 men and women of various ethnicity. A panel design was used with telephone contacts for up to 6 months. Data were collected during each telephone interaction regarding barriers associated with receipt of CRC screening. The majority of the barriers were based on influences of significant others and social environment, time constraints, other health problems, stress, and crisis.

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Health Education, vol. 104 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-4283

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Publication date: 1 July 1930

WE write on the eve of an Annual Meeting of the Library Association. We expect many interesting things from it, for although it is not the first meeting under the new…

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WE write on the eve of an Annual Meeting of the Library Association. We expect many interesting things from it, for although it is not the first meeting under the new constitution, it is the first in which all the sections will be actively engaged. From a membership of eight hundred in 1927 we are, in 1930, within measurable distance of a membership of three thousand; and, although we have not reached that figure by a few hundreds—and those few will be the most difficult to obtain quickly—this is a really memorable achievement. There are certain necessary results of the Association's expansion. In the former days it was possible for every member, if he desired, to attend all the meetings; today parallel meetings are necessary in order to represent all interests, and members must make a selection amongst the good things offered. Large meetings are not entirely desirable; discussion of any effective sort is impossible in them; and the speakers are usually those who always speak, and who possess more nerve than the rest of us. This does not mean that they are not worth a hearing. Nevertheless, seeing that at least 1,000 will be at Cambridge, small sectional meetings in which no one who has anything to say need be afraid of saying it, are an ideal to which we are forced by the growth of our numbers.

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New Library World, vol. 33 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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