This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing the administrative data of students from a city in the...

This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing the administrative data of students from a city in the...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2011. Major: Bussiness administration. Advisor: Pervin shroff. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 68 pages, appendix A.

SWD-Schlagwörter: Unternehmen, Industrieobligationen, Anleihe, Publizität, Kommunikation. - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): Corporate Bond, Bond Market, Corporate Disclosure, Bondholder Relations Market,

Theories of delegated monitoring predict that when public disclosure is costly, monitoring by a large investor leads management to supply more private information to that investor, and less public disclosure to other similarly aligned investors who free-ride off the monitor. We test this...