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ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCE ACQUISITION AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL INVESTING AND CROWDFUNDING
(2016)
Crowdfunding – an open call on an internet platform for money – is becoming an important source of financial capital for entrepreneurs. Compared to traditional sources of financial capital, the phenomenon of crowdfunding ...
Manager-Debtholder Alignment and Opportunistic Income Smoothing
(2016-05-13)
Managers’ risk preferences are typically greater than those of debtholders. Managers have the potential to gain from risky activities, but debtholders share only in the losses. Debtholders recognize their misalignment with ...
Essays in Financial Markets
(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 CORPORATE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
(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 ...
Strategic Non-disclosure of Major Customer Identity
(2016-05)
This study investigates firms’ decision to withhold the identity of their major customers. I first document that the extent of private firms in the industry (private firm intensity) relates positively to non-disclosure of ...