Marketing and strategy researchers have often studied how organizations navigate multiple identities in relation to category spanning but extant literature pays less attention to understanding how individuals do so. Moreover, current econometric approaches only scratch the surface with respect...

We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....

Based on the structural model, macroeconomic and liquidity factors are tested against credit spread changes in American OTC corporate bonds. I discovered that the volatility of long run Treasury yield has even greater explanatory power than the yield itself. Macroeconomic indicators, such as...