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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 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...
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Fall 2014
The first essay of the thesis examines the effect of legal insider trading intensity on stock price informativeness. Open market transactions by corporate insiders are considered informative because they predict future stock returns and future firm-specific cash flows. As a result, it may seem...