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This dissertation investigates whether short sellers establish short positions prior to accounting restatement announcements and whether the levels of short interest are related to the severity of restatements. Using 565 firms with restatement disclosure during the period of 1995 to 2002 and...
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Valuation of corporate debt has been an extremely important, albeit imprecise task in asset pricing. Both structural models and reduced form models have had limited success in explaining the corporate yield spreads observed in actual markets. Taking advantage of a unique corporate bond dataset...
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In the first essay, I examine the impact of the introduction of exchange traded funds (ETFs) options on the information related trading of index options. Two option pairs, NASDAQ 100 index (NDX) and ETF (QQQ, currently QQQQ ) options, and Standard and Poor's 500 index (SPX) options and S & P...
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In the first essay, I examine the impact of the introduction of exchange traded funds (ETFs) options on the information related trading of index options. Two option pairs, NASDAQ 100 index (NDX) and ETF (QQQ, currently QQQQ ) options, and Standard and Poor's 500 index (SPX) options and S & P...
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heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation in asset returns are the primary sources of test mis-specification in these linearity …-in-the-mean hypothesis tests. To address this problem, an innovative approach is proposed to control heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation … the theme of the previous two studies, the effects of heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation are examined in the portfolio …
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We fit the Florida Model with an AR(1) error structure to pooled cross-country International Comparison Project (ICP) data of Seale, Walker, and Kim and estimate the model with the minimum information (MI) estimator. Point estimates obtained by MI are similar in value to those obtained by Seale,...
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Spatial dependence in individual-tree diameter, and growth model residuals was characterised for an even-aged Eucalyptus pilularis (Smith) experiment in New South Wales,. Australia. The magnitude of spatial dependence changed as the dominance of competitive mechanisms and micro-site influences...
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The Durbin Watson, DW, test for first order autocorrelation in regression residuals is among the most widely applied … errors in a seasonal model. Considering the PAR(1) process, we show such errors display both (seasonal) autocorrelation and …
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generalized residual-based tests. The tests exhibit impressive power to detect both autocorrelation and autoregressive conditional …?British pound exchange rate, with the finding that both autocorrelation and GARCH effects are needed to adequately fit the data. …
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