User profiles for W. Brian Barrett

W. Brian Barrett

University of Miami
Verified email at miami.edu
Cited by 395

The adjustment of stock prices to completely unanticipated events

WB Barrett, AJ Heuson, RW Kolb… - Financial Review, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
This paper utilizes standard cumulative residual analysis to study the response of stock prices
to completely unanticipated events—fatal commercial airline crashes. Results indicate that …

The effect of Three Mile Island on utility bond risk premia: A note

WB Barrett, AJ Heuson, RW Kolb - The Journal of Finance, 1986 - JSTOR
ON MARCH 28, 1979, one of the two nuclear reactors operated by General Public Utilities (GPU)
at its Three Mile Island (TMI) power generating plant failed. The ensuing public uproar …

Banking Struture and the National Capital Market, 1869–1914

ME Sushka, WB Barrett - The Journal of Economic History, 1984 - cambridge.org
We examine (1) why, when a national capital market developed in the United States, regional
interest rate differentials existed and seemed to narrow toward 1900, and (2) the changing …

[PDF][PDF] Introducing the graph 500

RC Murphy, KB Wheeler, BW Barrett… - Cray Users Group …, 2010 - richardmurphy.net
In the words of Lord Kelvin,“if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”. One of the
longlasting successes of the Top 500 list is sustained, community-wide floating point …

The structural simulation toolkit

AF Rodrigues, KS Hemmert, BW Barrett… - ACM SIGMETRICS …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
As supercomputers grow, understanding their behavior and performance has become
increasingly challenging. New hurdles in scalability, programmability, power consumption, …

[HTML][HTML] Soil moisture retrieval from active spaceborne microwave observations: An evaluation of current techniques

BW Barrett, E Dwyer, P Whelan - Remote Sensing, 2009 - mdpi.com
The importance of land surface-atmosphere interactions, principally the effects of soil
moisture, on hydrological, meteorological, and ecological processes has gained widespread …

Evolution of neoplastic cell lineages in Barrett oesophagus

MT Barrett, CA Sanchez, LJ Prevo, DJ Wong… - Nature …, 1999 - nature.com
… diploid clones with somatic genetic abnormalities involving TP53, or both TP53 and CDKN2A,
were frequently found in multiple biopsies extending over large areas (2-11 cm) of Barrett

Reserve regulation and recourse as a source of risk premia in the federal funds market

WB Barrett, MB Slovin, ME Sushka - Journal of Banking & Finance, 1988 - Elsevier
In this paper we demonstrate that there is a pronounced and persistent daily pattern of returns
in the federal funds market, centered on Wednesday. We present evidence that explains …

Open MPI: A high-performance, heterogeneous MPI

RL Graham, GM Shipman, BW Barrett… - 2006 IEEE …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growth in the number of generally available, distributed, heterogeneous computing
systems places increasing importance on the development of user-friendly tools that enable …

Economic volatility and the demand for consumer durables

WB Barrett, MB Slovin - Applied Economics, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
Expenditures on consumer durables build up a stock of goods that are a form of savings
since future consumption services flow from such a stock. Overall, expenditures on consumer …