Browsing by Author "Linn, Scott"

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    • A Currency Union Odyssey: Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone 

      Strong, Christine (2019-08-01)
      This thesis focuses on one of the most important currency unions in the world known as the CFA zone. The goal of this thesis is to draw a comparison of African countries with their own national currencies to African countries ...

    • EMPIRICAL RESEARCHES ON PRICE AND QUALITY COMPETITION IN THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY 

      Shi, Long (2017-07)
      My dissertation chapters are empirical researches on the U.S. airline industry. In the first chapter, I use different discrete choice models to study major carriers’ decisions on outsourcing their service to smaller regional ...

    • Essays in Banking: Consolidation, Shock Transmission, and Payout 

      Pugachev, Leonid (2019-05)
      This dissertation comprises three essays. The first documents the equilibrating effect of bank M&As on deposit and loan markets; the second explores board interlocks as a means of bank-shock transmission across sectors; ...

    • Essays in Corporate Finance 

      Sitorus, Romora (2020-05-08)
      This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay documents a significant negative relationship between policy uncertainty and venture capital (VC) investment in startups across emerging venture capital markets ...

    • ESSAYS IN CORPORATE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION 

      Hoelscher, Seth (2016-05-04)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the role and importance of discretionary disclosures by managers, stock price comovement and government intervention into financial markets during a financial ...

    • Essays in Corporate Finance and Governance 

      Newton, Ashley (2015-05-08)
      This dissertation is a collection of essays that investigate the intersection of managerial behaviors, corporate governance quality, and financial outcomes. Chapter 1 explores the relationship between chief executive ...

    • Essays in Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation 

      Lin, Fang (2015-05)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the issues related to corporate governance and executive compensation. In Chapter 1 I employ a sample of U.S. public firms to investigate the effect of ...

    • Essays in Financial Markets 

      Cao, Wenbin (2016-08-16)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays that analyze the impact of economic uncertainty on financial market activities and evaluate alternative quantitative models for economic uncertainty based on financial asset ...

    • Essays in Market Microstructure and Information Networks 

      Black, Jeffrey R. (2017-05-12)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays which study the impact of make-take fees on market efficiency, the relevance of three dimensions of liquidity on bond yields, and the value of information flow through the ...

    • Essays in Product Market Competition, Intellectual Property Protection and Corporate Governance 

      Guernsey, Scott (2018)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the value implications of product market competition, the impact of trade secrets protection on capital structure decision-making, and the long-term value ...

    • ESSAYS ON CORPORATE BOND MARKETS 

      Chen, Fan (2014)
      The aim of my dissertation is to provide new insights into corporate bond markets from empirical corporate finance and bond market microstructure vintage points. The first chapter introduces the topic. The second chapter ...

    • AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF WELL ABANDONMENT DECISION 

      Alathur, Snigdha Phaniraj (2016-05-13)
      The Oklahoma Corporation Commission Oil and Gas conservation division reports that as of 2012, there have been roughly 500,000 wells drilled in Oklahoma since 1978. 350,000 of those have been plugged and abandoned. The ...

    • Three essays in corporate bond liquidity 

      Leal Gonzalez, Diego L (2020-05-08)
      This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, using proxies for conversion cost parameters in conjunction with a special set of default free corporate bonds, I empirically establish that the term ...

    • Three Essays in Corporate Finance 

      Abeysekera, Amal (2020-05-08)
      This dissertation comprises of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 1) looks at the incidence of sexual harassment in U.S. S&P 500 firms, and its relationship to shareholder value. The second essay (Chapter 2) is an ...

    • THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT & APPLIED MICRO 

      Duan, Huiqiong (2018-07-26)
      Chapter 1: China’s National Poor Counties (NPCs) program represents one of the largest anti-poverty efforts ever undertaken in a developing country. In spite of this, no causal analysis has been undertaken to examine whether ...

    • THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH 

      Yuan, Weici (2016-05-13)
      My research explores important issues associated with development and growth. Chapter 1 aims to obtain an accurate estimate of China's intergenerational income mobility and to present evidence on its distributional pattern. ...

    • Three Essays in Financial Economics 

      Lattanzio, Gabriele (2019-05-10)
      This dissertation comprises three essays. The first reports a macro-economic application of the synthetic control method developed in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) to assess the economic implications of the institutionalization ...

    • Three Essays on Contract Renegotiation 

      Jung, Hojin (2014-05-09)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays investigating renegotiation of procurement auctions in the road construction industry. The empirical analysis uses contracts procured by the Vermont Agency of Transportation ...

    • Three Essays on Credit Market 

      Yang, Zongfei (2015-05-08)
      My dissertation focuses primarily on credit markets from a corporate finance perspective, with a concentration on corporate bonds and security offerings. My dissertation consists of three essays. Essay One is titled ...

    • Three Essays on Energy Finance 

      Zhang, Huiming (2023-08-04)
      The field of energy finance is currently confronted with new challenges in the ever-evolving global landscape, characterized by dynamic changes in fundamental factors and shifting economic conditions. Understanding the ...