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Essays on asset pricing and financial econometrics

Kang, Qiang - 2002

The dissertation is focused on studying the behavior of aggregate asset market and its relationship to real economic activity. Chapter 1 offers a new empirical perspective on the relationship between the conditional mean and volatility of stock returns. Chapter 2 builds a general equilibrium...

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Some financial implications of United States pension actuarial methods and assumptions

Gold, Jeremy - 2000

management while ignoring and contradicting contemporaneous developments in finance. This has distorted the accounting, tax and … finance lessons of Black (1980) and Tepper (1981) to "cash balance" pension plans, concluding that these plans can best serve … investing and smooth away the risks incurred without causing bias. Modern finance may correct this and inform future actuarial …

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Hyperbolic utility consumption-CAPM with time variation

Hong, Seung-Mo Jeff - 2000

In the past the studies done about consumption and the financial market generally produced results that would only work to discount the credibility of consumption-based asset pricing models. This study was motivated by the idea that a model based on hyperbolic utility risk aversion mechanism...

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International financial networks and global supply chains: A unified framework for decision-making, optimization, and risk management

Cruz, Jose M - 2004

electronic transactions. I utilized tools from both management science and finance to identify the commonality in the structures …

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Social interaction and economic institution

Park, Yongjin - 2004

borrowing firms, banks may increase the number of firms they initially finance by offering lower loan rates. At the same time …

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Financial liberalization and its distributional consequences: An empirical exploration

Jayadev, Arjun - 2005

Although there has been growing interest in the social impacts of financial deregulation in economies across the world, a large research gap persists. Despite voluminous literature, there has been very little empirical work addressing the distributional consequences of a liberal financial...

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Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy

Zarsky, Lyuba - 2006

This dissertation probes the interface between foreign direct investment (FDI) and sustainable industrial development in the context of the neo-liberal institutions governing the global economy. Comprised of three essays, it defines sustainable industrial development as simultaneous evolution...

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Three essays on China's state owned enterprises: Towards an alternative to privatization

Li, Minqi - 2002

A common theme in the analysis of the contemporary Chinese economy is that the Chinese state owned enterprises fail to operate efficiently because of ambiguous property rights, soft budget constraints, and government intervention. These authors advocate an economic reform program based on...

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Essays in Property Taxation and Multinational Tax Avoidance

Bradley, Sebastien J. - 2011

This dissertation exploits variation in tax policies in order to better understand the incentive effects of taxation on individual and firm behavior. The results presented herein are intended to inform policy debates in the two areas examined--property and multinational taxation--as well as the...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...

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