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(2011-10-21)This dissertation studies the effects of female labor market participation on fertility spacing in U.S., and the impact of special language programs on academic achievement of English language learners in Texas public ...
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(2012-10-19)Past research documents a positive link between momentum and firm-level default risk, yet this anomaly is not connected to default risk at the macro level. Namely, there is no documented momentum during recessions, when ...
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(2020-07-23)This dissertation attempts to address two research questions. In the first essay "Bank Regulation, Cost of Borrowing, and Product Market Predation on Borrowers", I study the effect of bank regulation on the microeconomic ...
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(2018-05-01)In the first essay, I document the richness of CEO compensation packages and show that boards learn about the desirability of the many complex package features through observing how these features are associated with firm ...
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(2015-06-25)In this dissertation, we answer two research question in corporate finance. In the first essay, “A New Benchmark: Relative Performance Evaluation with Total Returns”, we revisit the question of relative performance evaluation ...
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(2012-07-16)In the first essay, "Why Won't You Forgive Me? Evidence of a Financial Misreporting Stigma in Bank Loan Pricing," we examine the relation between bank loan pricing and intentional financial misreporting. Firms that misreport ...
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(2012-02-14)CEO succession decisions are an important part of boards of directors’ responsibilities to shareholders. I study two aspects of these decisions. First, I examine whether or not forced CEO departure decisions are based on ...
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(2012-12-10)The first essay studies the long term trend of internal migration in the United States. Over the last forty years, there has only been a modest change in the overall interstate migration rate in the United States. However, ...
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(2018-07-27)This dissertation includes two essays on ambiguity and stock return volatility. The first essay focuses on the degree of ambiguity in the firm news, and studies the impact of ambiguous information regarding dividends and ...
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(2015-06-05)This dissertation includes two essays on corporate finance. The first essay investigates why bank debt contracts are frequently renegotiated outside default. I test empirical implications from several theories by looking ...
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(2019-05-21)The dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter studies the effect of ownership by long-term passive institutions on CEO compensation duration. I exploit the exogenous variation in passive ownership associated ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)I examine two sets of incentives faced by corporate CEOs to determine how they respond to those incentives. I compare firms that restate financial statements to firms that do not restate to test the hypotheses that bank ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)In this dissertation, two questions concerning monetary policy under the Taylor rule have been addressed. The first question is on, under the Taylor rule, whether a central bank should be responsible for both bank ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This dissertation studies the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its effects on foreign exchange markets and corporate cash holdings. These two potential effects are examined in the dissertation in two separate essays. The ...
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(2016-04-28)The effectiveness of patent system design has been studied for decades from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. The existing literature demonstrates that innovations provide product diversity, supporting the ...
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(2013-12-09)This dissertation studies the effect of premarital cohabitation on women’s propensity to divorce and women’s divorce risk. The dissertation focuses on various selection issues in a woman’s decision to start a relationship ...
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(2023-08-03)The dissertation consists of two essays on shareholder activism. In the first essay, I study the effect of hedge fund activism on total firm value and on wealth transfers between financial claimants, as well as the channels ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation contains two essays. The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 was intended to stimulate the economy by expediting the repatriation of foreign earnings and requiring that those repatriations be invested in ...
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(2017-05-19)The dissertation investigates an average bid auction, in which the bid closest to the average wins the auction. In the first study, I investigate the equilibrium bidding strategy in the average bid auction, when cost ...