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Fall 2014
Capital markets play an important role in the modern economy. This thesis consists of two essays on capital markets. In the first essay (Chapter 1), I study the effect of systematic news on a prominent capital markets anomaly, post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD), and use the effect to...
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Spring 2022
Consumer wastefulness continues to be one of the most pressing issues in achieving sustainable development. While research on wasteful consumer behavior garners increasing attention, most of it is significantly limited by how we conceptualize waste, and consequently how we identify and reduce...
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Spring 2016
People buy extended service contracts (ESCs) or extended warranties for their purchased products to protect them against break-down or failure beyond the duration or coverage of base manufacturer warranties. In this thesis, I study two factors that affect ESC purchase decisions, namely brand...
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Spring 2016
This dissertation consists of three separate essays on health care operations management. Abstracts of the three essays are as follows: Essay 1: We model emergency medical services (EMS) as Erlang loss systems and study ambulance shortage periods, intervals with few or no ambulances available to...
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Spring 2017
This thesis presents two essays. I (1) study the effect of short selling regulation SHO on informational efficiency of naked short selling activity; (2) analyze the role of reference demands in traders’ decision-making. In these essays, I highlight the informative role of transaction quantities....