An Enquiry into Self-Monitoring: its relationships to physical illness and psychological distress

A major general purpose of this paper is therefore to identify the principal aggregate and structural impacts which result from a substantial switch to petroleum products excise revenue from crude oil levy revenue. Industrial ·sector interfuel substitution effects are explicitly allowed for, under conditions of no net change in nominal or real liquid fuel tax receipts. Specific account is also taken of two important strands of the Australian government's pre-1988 oil regulatory framework, namely the import parity pricing (IPP) and domestic allocation systems for crude oil

COMPUTER TRAINING AND COMPUTER ANXIETY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

The 1980s witnessed the widespread introduction of microcomputer technology into educational institutions and the workplace. Microcomputer software training has achieved mixed results due to both training methods and individual factors, such as computer anxiety. The present research addresses the topic of software training by presenting the results of two studies. The first study validates a measure of computer anxiety, while the second study contrasts the effects of training method and computer anxiety on training outcomes. The training method demonstrated stronger relationships with training outcomes than did computer anxiety. In addition, the second study contrasted two training methods and found that training labelled as play resulted in enhanced training outcomes as compared with training labelled as wor

Difference of Opinion, Overconfidence, and the High-volume Return Premium

We argue that both differences of opinion and overconfidence lead to high-volume shocks. However, a high-volume shock induced mainly by differences of opinion (overconfidence) will lead to superior (inferior) stock returns. Empirically, Asian financial markets, in contrast to U.S. markets, reveal weaker and inconsistent high-volume premiums. The inconsistency may be attributable to investor\u27s overconfidence. Additional evidence based on U.S. data supports this view, as a high-volume shock accompanied by increased institutional ownership yields substantially higher high-volume premiums than otherwise, and high-volume premiums generally are much stronger in down-market states than up-market states