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

The purpose of this study is to extend the body of Agency Theory Literature to the class of relatively small firms that use the revolving Asset-Based Loan (ABL) as their major source of debt financing. Specifically, the revolving ABL structure is examined and implications for both the resolution...

The structure of United States security markets and information systems create incentives for managers to time strategically the release of accounting information when security markets are open or closed. This research tests two theories that offer predictions about when managers will release...

This study extends Pourciau (1993) by examining the link between executive succession and the capital market's response to earnings announcements. Two competing predictions are proposed. First, prior studies have shown that executives manage earnings downward in the year of management change and...

This paper reexamines data on major industrial countries to investigate the dynamic interaction between money supply shocks and the real exchange rate. Specifically, this paper shows the relationship of observed comovements between money supply, industrial production index, interest rates,...

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...

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...

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...

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...