Financial regulations require publicly traded firms to disclose firm-specific information relating to their financial performance as well as forecasts of future prospects disclosed to anyone outside the firm. Profit warnings present important market information as to the recent past firm...

The dissertation consists of three research works about special topics of financial intermediation. The main goal of the first study is to determine the effect of some corporate governance-related variables on bank initial public offerings (IPOs). The testable hypotheses involve three dependent...

This dissertation extends previous research on bubbles by investigating whether changes in the financial asset prices of the S&P500 reflect changes in fundamentals. We propose that if this is not the case the volatility is due to a bubble. Hence, this is the general hypothesis from which several...

This dissertation examines the effect of variables specific to different industries on initial public offerings (IPOs). It has been widely accepted that IPOs perform well in the immediate aftermarket and perform poorly in the subsequent months. The uncertainty surrounding IPOs has been a...

This thesis takes a theoretical and analytical look at the implicit prices of housing characteristics in a South Florida submarket. Chapter II analyzes some of the vast body of previous studies that employ Econometric Techniques. Chapter III presents the information revealed by an examination of...

This thesis is a study of the monetary control system in Hong Kong. One unique feature of that system is that it is without a central bank. Most economists have supposed that a monetary system without a central bank will be subject to price instability and inflation. The Hong Kong situation...

Aspects of the relationship between the term structure of interest rates and bank failure from 1984 to 1989 are explored in the context of a bank-failure-prediction model. For this, the logit technique is employed. Interest rate variables used to characterize the term structure include Treasury,...

This thesis examines as well as compares three oligopoly models. In Seade (1980), the effect of entry on outputs and profits is analyzed. Firms may respond to entry in a perverse way by increasing their outputs. The equilibrium price set by firms always rests above marginal costs. In Perloff and...

This thesis contains an empirical study of nonprofit cultural organizations in the state of Florida. Transcendental and Cobb Douglas functions are compared for a sample of 76 organizations. The organizations produce under conditions of decreasing returns to scale and both labor and capital are...

This thesis theoretically and empirically analyzes the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Third World countries. The competing theories of the impact of FDI on developing countries are examined. The contradictory results of former econometric tests and empirical surveys measuring the impact...