Behavioral finance and its implications for stock-price volatility

RA Olsen - Financial analysts journal, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
An increasing number of academic and professional articles are being published about
research on and potential applications of behavioral finance. This article offers a more complete …

Comparison of methods for finding saddle points without knowledge of the final states

RA Olsen, GJ Kroes, G Henkelman… - The Journal of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Within the harmonic approximation to transition state theory, the biggest challenge involved
in finding the mechanism or rate of transitions is the location of the relevant saddle points on …

The influence of gender on the perception and response to investment risk: The case of professional investors

RA Olsen, CM Cox - The journal of psychology and financial …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
… Professor Olsen has business experience as a Financial Analyst and consulting experience
with small business start-ups. Professor Olsen’s research interests are focused on Risk …

Viability of soil bacteria: optimization of plate-counting technique and comparison between total counts and plate counts within different size groups

RA Olsen, LR Bakken - Microbial ecology, 1987 - Springer
Viable counts of heterotropic soil bacteria were 3–5 times higher on low-nutrient agar media
compared with a series of conventional agar media. Substantial amounts of …

Chemically Accurate Simulation of a Prototypical Surface Reaction: H2 Dissociation on Cu(111)

C Díaz, E Pijper, RA Olsen, HF Busnengo… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Methods for accurately computing the interaction of molecules with metal surfaces are
critical to understanding and thereby improving heterogeneous catalysis. We introduce an …

Investment risk: The experts' perspective

RA Olsen - Financial Analysts Journal, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Olsen is a professor of finance at California State University at Chico and a research scholar
… Prospect theory (see Kahneman and Tversky 1992, Olsen 1995), a leading contender …

Predicting catalysis: Understanding ammonia synthesis from first-principles calculations

…, U Manthe, JK Nørskov, RA Olsen… - The Journal of …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Here, we give a full account of a large collaborative effort toward an atomic-scale understanding
of modern industrial ammonia production over ruthenium catalysts. We show that …

Atomic and molecular hydrogen interacting with Pt (111)

RA Olsen, GJ Kroes, EJ Baerends - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
This computational study is motivated by the apparent conflict between an experiment on
dissociation of H 2 and D 2 on Pt(111), which suggests a rather corrugated potential energy …

Buoyant densities and dry-matter contents of microorganisms: conversion of a measured biovolume into biomass

LR Bakken, RA Olsen - Applied and environmental microbiology, 1983 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Hovland and RA Olsen, manuscript in preparation). Small parts of the insides of the caps
or stems were incubated on malt agar. Before being transferred to the culture collection, the …

Implications of herding behavior for earnings estimation, risk assessment, and stock returns

RA Olsen - Financial Analysts Journal, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Experts' earnings predictions exhibit positive bias and disappointing accuracy. These
shortcomings are usually attributed to some combination of incomplete knowledge, incompetence, …