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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ESSAYS ON CORPORATE BOND MARKETS
(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 ...
IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS VIA LOGIC DIVERSITY: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA NARRATIVES AND USE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR
(2015-05-08)
Over the last decade, social media has diffused widely through society, increasingly impacting aspects of our lives. In the private sphere, we use social media to develop and maintain personal relationships. In the civic ...
Essays on State Ownership
(2012)
The aim of my dissertation is to provide insights into the rationale and impact of government investments. The first chapter introduces the topic, from a corporate finance perspective. The second chapter (Why Do Governments ...
The Linkages Among Firm Strategies, Firm Reputation, and Performance: A Three Essay Dissertation
(2012)
No one would question that firm reputation is a quality commonly ascribed to successful firms in the market. However, the premise of the relationship between firm reputation (FR) and firm performance (FP) has not been ...
Three Essays on Credit Market
(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 ...
Inter-Organizational Implantation: An Empirical Examination of Logistics Service Provider - Customer Relationships
(2010)
The current research examines an inter-organizational relationship structure that has not received much attention in prior studies: inter-organizational implantation. This phenomenon is explored in this dissertation using ...
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, ...