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- 1Amerongen, Loretta Mary.
- 1Anderson, Clarence Glen.
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Fall 2009
This thesis presents three separate essays on capital investment and corporate governance. They include: (a) the consequences of acquiring overinvested firms during the post-bubble period in the US economy, (b) the appropriateness of corporate leadership structure in the US, and (c) the...
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Fall 2014
This thesis consists of three archival studies in capital markets. The introductory chapter briefly summarizes the literature, motivation, research methodology, and main findings in each study. Chapter 2 examines the differential trading activities of small traders (i.e., traders initiating small...
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Fall 2009
There are two opposing views on the role of regulation of financial markets examined in the academic literature. There is a large body of evidence that suggests that the efficiency of capital markets in North America is in large part due to investors’ confidence in the regulatory system. However,...
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Spring 2013
This thesis presents three essays on earnings management of firms with a string of consecutive earnings increases for at least five years (labelled an earnings string). In Chapter II, I examine the accrual management practice of firms with an earning string (labelled ES firms) along the string,...
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Fall 2010
This thesis presents three essays on credit ratings of regulated utilities, dividend signaling, and asymmetric information and security issuances and repurchases. Chapter 2 investigates the practices of credit rating agencies by using the regulated utility industry as a natural testing ground. ...
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Fall 2014
This thesis contains three separate essays on headquarters relocations, insider trading informativeness and CEO education. We (1) study the headquarters relocation event and understand who benefits from the relocation decisions; (2) investigate the role of firm opacity in determining insider...
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Spring 2011
This thesis presents three essays on audit quality tied up by a common thread: the implication of closeness in auditor-client relationship on audit quality and beyond. In Chapter II, I investigate the implications of close auditor-client relationships arising as time passes on clients’ operating...
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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...