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This paper develops insights gained from a project that brought together an interdisciplinary team to conduct a one year joint study of information management within the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community. We discuss memory and its relationships to data, information, and knowledge. Memory practices (Bowker, 2005) are at the center of LTER work – the community is aiming to build very long baselines of environmental data, baselines suited to the life of the ecosystem rather than (as is currently the case) to the lifetime of the researcher.
Stock returns have been observed to be anomalous compared to the predictions of various models which assert that firm-level characteristics, such as size (ME) and book-to-market equity (BE/ME), should not influence the cross-section of stock returns. Since the seminal works of Chan and Chen (1991) and Fama and French (1992), the concept of financial distress has been used extensively to explain such anomalous pattern in stock returns. The literature has also documented a number of asset pricing anomalies that persist following their discovery. These include the last return (short term momentum and long run reversal), earnings momentum, dispersion, accruals, credit risk (level and changes), and idiosyncratic volatility effects.
Flexible financial markets appear to stimulate growth (Levine, Loayza and Beck, 1998). They help allocate existing resources to their most efficient uses. Most importantly they help fund competing experiments and innovations and ultimately select the most successful among them. World-wide there is now a trend towards deregulation and liberalisation of financial markets. However, deregulated financial markets can exhibit severe volatility and disrupt economic activity as exemplified by the recent emerging market crises originating in East Asia, partly as a result of herd behaviour and panic. Some of the policy innovations of the 20 th century have been aimed at creating safety nets against systemic failure in financial systems such as deposit insurance and liquidity support.
