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(Debt) Overhang: Evidence from Resource Extraction
I study the empirical importance of debt overhang using a unique dataset on resource extraction firms, which provides ex ante measures of investment opportunities and important variation in the terms of a firm's obligations. ... -
Digital Healthcare: Individual Engagement and IT-Enabled Design
In this dissertation, I study the transformational effect of information technology on healthcare. I take two main perspectives to investigate the topic: individual engagement and IT-enabled design. Along the first ... -
Distal and Historical Constraints on Leadership: Loneliness and Leniency from the Leader's Perspective
Contextual factors – environmental stimuli external to individuals – are historically understudied loci of leadership. This dissertation comprises two chapters exploring characteristics of distal and historical context ... -
Dividend capture and the Tax Reform Act of 1986
(1991)This dissertation develops direct tests for the presence of dividend capture trading in NYSE stocks. The empirical method also separates stocks with dividend capture trading from those whose ex-day returns are set by the ... -
Dividends and earnings: their effect on firm value
(1992)This dissertation investigates the relation between firm value, dividends, and earnings. It develops a model of firm value which distinguishes between the operating activities of the firm, in which the average return on ... -
Division or Solidarity: The Double-Edged Sword of Workplace Gossip
Despite the ubiquity of gossip, current scholarly perspectives of gossip conceptualize gossip as a largely uniform behavior, which simplifies its inherent complexity, ambiguity, and broader consequences in organizations. ... -
Do Commissions Cause Investment Adviser Misconduct?
Sales commissions may present a conflict of interest that allows investment advisers to obtain rents from uninformed clients. Alternatively, commissions might be a contracting solution to motivate information provision. ... -
Do two Libor reforms reduce the effect of incentives on submitted rates?
Libor is a set of survey-based reference interest rates for an estimated $350 trillion in financial instruments. In 2013, administrators adopted several reforms designed to improve Libor. Two key reforms were (1) eliminate ... -
Dynamic Management of Loyalty Program Strategies
Loyalty programs are a major strategy used in firm CRM efforts, with resources in excess of $48 billion spent in 2013 on loyalty programs in the U.S. alone (Berry 2013). Yet inconsistent returns still result in costly ... -
Dynamic Scheduling Policies in Production-Inventory Systems with Returns or Two Classes of Demands
(2013-11-14)A major concern in operations and supply chain management research has been to determine optimal policies to minimize costs in production and inventory systems. This dissertation consists of two applications of ... -
The Effect of Passive Investment on a Firm’s Information Environment
Passive investment strategies (i.e., indexing) have grown substantially over the past twenty years to over $3 trillion in assets, but there is little empirical evidence on the effect of indexers on a firm’s information ... -
The Effects of Punishment on Observers: A Model and Empirical Demonstration
(2012-09-13)Punishment is an unpleasant but necessary part of organizational life. Common wisdom suggests that punishing employees for undesirable behaviors is not as effective as rewarding them for desirable behaviors, leading managers ... -
The effects of securitization on consumer mortgage financing costs
(1997)Although previous studies have found that securitization reduces primary mortgage rates by 30 basis points or more, I find these benefits disappear when fixed and adjustable rate spreads are unbundled and measured separately. ... -
Effects of Social Context and Linguistic Formality in Consumer Behavior: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Investigation
This dissertation is a two-fold examination of the persuasiveness of language formality in brand communication. The first section reviews the extant literature on language formality, organizes a framework of how persuasiveness ... -
Effects of Temporal Self-Comparisons on the Pursuit of Improvement
This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter one reviews the current state of knowledge on temporal self-comparisons and distills different theories and findings into three key principles that can guide future ... -
Ego Depletion and Behavioral Ethics
In this dissertation, I examine ego depletion’s effects on ethical decision making. Chapter One first provides a brief introduction and a coherent framework of my work in the area of ego depletion and behavioral ethics. ... -
Elementary accounting principles and bookkeeping methods
(1930)Property is Necessary for Business Operations. ”Men are engaged in business activities for the purpose of earning a livelihood. The first essential for the conduct of business operations is the possession of property. ... -
Employee stock ownership incentives and contracting efficiency: with evidence from employee stock ownership plan adopters
(1999)This dissertation develops a microeconomic rationale for the use of broad-based stock incentives in the presence of a central monitor. I show that the ability of stock to align owner and employee interests is a function ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
This dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter studies the spillover effect of fire sales transmitted by dealers in the corporate bond market. I use the monthly exclusion events from the Bloomberg Barclays ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
This thesis consists of four empirical essays in financial economics, and the central theme is learning in financial markets. The first essay delves into retail investors' learning within an information market, which is ...