And that makes it for me a very exciting time to study this because the problems aren't solved in the way that bridge building is largely a solved problem now.
There had been a lot of forums and papers published, she says, but the field had been handicapped by a tendency on the part of drug companies to approach the problem on a study-by-study basis, often not following up with communities after the work is done.
To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new studyto be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.
