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Sinha, Nitish Ranjan - 2010

The first essay examines news and the cross section of returns. Using a sentiment score provided by Thomson Reuters to measure the tone of news articles, this paper examines monthly portfolio returns constructed from information about past news articles. The sentiment score is obtained from the...

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The economic determinants of the time series properties of earnings, sales, and cash flows from operations

Krippel, Gregory Lee

An objective of both economic structural and accounting time-series literature has been to understand the economic … results in accounting time-series research regarding the barriers-to-entry and size variables is inconclusive for the former … accounting time-series research is the product differentiation variable. Due to its lack of variation across the sample no …

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Measures of firm performance, earnings changes, and the prediction of stock returns

Ortega, William Roland

This study extends the existing research on the use of financial statement variables to predict one-year-ahead earnings changes. A principal component analysis was conducted on 61 financial statement variables in an attempt to describe the dimensionality of the variables and facilitate the...

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Aspects of individual financial decisionmaking

Lu, Jun - 2011

The first chapter explores the determinants of people's decisions to take 401(k) loans. We model factors that rationally would induce people to borrow from their pension plans, and we explain why people do not often use 401(k) loans to replace their more expensive credit card debt. Next we test...

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Three essays on socially responsible investing: A summary look, eco-efficiency and measuring opportunity cost

Ma, Aixin - 2008

Over the study period of 1995 to 2006, performance disparities are reported between mutual funds engaged in socially responsible investing (SRI funds) and non-SRI funds. After introducing a social factor and firm specific risk variables, an extension to the Fama-French-Carhart four-factor model...

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Essays in finance.

Qi, Rong - 2002

This dissertation offers a microstructure-based model to explain two puzzles in finance: diversification discount and …

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Essays on sovereign debt valuation.

Warnes, Ignacio - 1997

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-02, Section: A, page: 0539.

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Financial impacts of changing technology on business case study : Hyflo Southern Africa (PTY) LTD

De Wet, Pierre - 2005

The era known as the Industrial Revolution was a period in which fundamental changes occurred in agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, transportation, the social structure and economic policies. The large number of unskilled people provided cheap labour and was used as easy replaceable...

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ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

Makaew, Tanakorn - 2010

My dissertation consists of three essays on international capital flows. In the first essay, titled "Do small firms benefit more from foreign portfolio investment? Evidence from a Natural Experiment," I test whether an increase in the supply of foreign portfolio capital benefits small firms by...

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Three essays on corporate pension underfunding, securities valuation and market efficiency

Zhang, Ting - 2009

This dissertation consists of three essays on corporate pension plan underfunding and securities valuation. The first essay presents evidence that sell-side stock analysts systematically underreact to pension underfunding information when they forecast firm earnings and such underreaction is...

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