Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Fall 2020
This thesis examines the impact of billionaires on their firms, equity markets and their countries’ economies. In Chapter 2, I use a hand-collected dataset of billionaire wealth from 1986 to 2015 and document that billionaire wealth over GDP has been increasing substantially around the world. As...
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Spring 2023
This dissertation consists of three essays concerning corporate economic efficiency. More specifically, I document how efficiently firms have used and allocated capital over the last three decades in the U.S. and worldwide. More importantly, I explore firm characteristics that affect their...
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Spring 2019
Paper 1 Although recent scholarship had faulted the constraining views of prior categories studies, there is no systematic theoretical analysis of how category membership influences the actions and reactions of categorized firms and their audiences. While previous arguments suggested that...
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Fall 2010
This thesis examines consumer behavior towards food risks in three different papers, focusing on two food concerns: genetically modified (GM) food and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The first paper investigates the roles of different measures of trust on consumers’ stated choices for...
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Fall 2011
This thesis is organized into five Chapters. In Chapter 1, we provide an introduction. In Chapter 2, we present a study on residential energy efficiency retrofits in Canada. We describe the EnerGuide for Houses data and model household decisions to invest in energy-efficiency retrofits....
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Fall 2020
This dissertation consists of three essays in the field of external financing. In Chapter 1, I explore how excess proceeds that arise from the capital-raising process during firms’ IPOs affect firms’ long-term performance. I document that there are often substantial differences between the filing...
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Fall 2015
This thesis consists of three essays. The first essay studies the ability of stock return idiosyncrasy to predict future economic conditions over time. The second essay investigates the technological innovation and creative destruction during the 1920s and the 1930s, one of the most innovative...