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Do Non-GAAP Exclusions Impact the Extent to Which Current Returns Reflect Future Earnings Information?
(2017-05-12)
Motivated by regulators’ concerns about non-GAAP financial measures and building on research that finds more informative disclosures allow current stock returns to better reflect future earnings, I examine whether non-GAAP ...
The Effects of Audit-Firm Monopoly Within Local Audit Markets
(2017-05-12)
This study examines auditors who monopolize audit markets (monopolist auditors), defined as a particular industry within a city (Numan and Willekens 2012), and their pricing strategy as well as audit quality. I document ...
SALESPERSON COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: A STUDY OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF COMPLEXITY, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND PERSONALITY-RELATED ANTECEDENTS
(2017-05)
Recent events suggest that counterproductive salesperson behavior—a behavior with the possibility of damaging the organization and its related partners—is a common phenomenon in the professional selling context. Considering ...
CRAFTING AN EFFECTIVE STORY: A NARRATIVE THEORY APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURIAL FUNDRAISING IN CROWDFUNDING
(2017-05-12)
The stories told by organizations have long played a critical role in furthering our understanding of organizational culture, the implementation of firm strategies, and the creation of new venture legitimacy. Recently, ...
Essays in International Finance
(2017-05-01)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays on the theme of international finance. Chapter 1 compares the takeover premia paid by government-owned and private sector bidders in the oil and gas industry. Using the ...
Essays in Market Microstructure and Information Networks
(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 Chinese Security Issuance and Privatization
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays which study the impacts of different types of government ownership on a firm’s post-privatization performance, the underlying cause for the change in Chinese share-issue ...