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An analysis of trading in options on Eurodollar futures: Trade types, risks, and profits.
(1999)
Turning to profit distributions, I find most are not normal. Specifically, puts and calls are leptokurtotic, while straddle distributions are mesokurtotic. I find bullish trades have significantly positive profits and ...
An investigation into the effects of birth order, sex, and personality on the likelihood of engaging in unethical behavior.
(2003)
Recently revived interest in the role of birth order in the development of personality has resulted in research investigating the relationship between birth order and the five-factor model (FFM) of personality. One ...
Effects of venture capital social advice networks on escalation of commitment.
(2006)
Characteristics of focal VC firms and the various advice network indices attached to their position in the network were used to predict escalation of commitment in new start-ups where the first round of funding was between ...
THE EFFECT OF AMBIGUITY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
(2019-08)
Mergers and acquisitions rarely deliver on expectations, yet organizations continue to pursue these strategic decisions. Scholars have researched acquisitions extensively as decisions under risk (Kumar, Dixit, & Francis, ...
Three essays in corporate bond liquidity
(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 ...
A financial analysis into the nature of corporate giving.
(1982)
The analysis of giving is based on the reaction of giving to the following financial variables: the cost of giving, liquidity, financial leverage, advertising, unemployment level, return on equity, dividend payout, and ...
An examination of the factors affecting the judicial assessment of continuity of interest in corporate reorganizations.
(1983)
While this approach might appear to be sustainable on a theoretical basis, a flaw exists in the reorganization environment which has prevented the attainment of widespread equitable results. That is, given the very high ...
An analysis of the development process of LDC with particular reference to Iran.
(1983)
Initially, the long-run patterns of association among the economic and non-economic variables were tested through the analysis of factorial structure for the entire thirty-six year period. Then, the short-run factorial ...