This paper studies how board structure changes with CEO characteristics. I estimate a structural model that endogenizes board structure, CEO firing, and firm performance to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Adopting such an ...

Organizational identification research demonstrates only weak support for the central hypothesis that organizational identification motivates employees to pursue organizational goals. I show that the influence of organizational ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Over the past decades, network technologies across supply chains have been introduced and promoted with the premised benefits for all participants. However industry experience with an adoption process of some technology ...

In this dissertation, I model generalized second price (GSP) auction for keyword search to analyze the optimal bidding strategies of the participating advertisers. The results also apply to a more general setting where ...

I use an experiment to examine how varying levels of similar or dissimilar detail between risk oversight disclosures influences nonprofessional investors' judgments and decisions. Investors evaluate the risk oversight ...

Credit ratings on certain structured finance products significantly underestimated default risk prior to the recent financial crisis. Rating agency executives acknowledge that these failures damaged the agencies' credibility ...

Academic research and marketing practice emphasize the role of advertising and R&D in building brand equity to achieve superior financial performance. Yet, prior research fails to consider that these marketing mix variables ...