The U.S. Federal Highway Trust Fund has experienced significant shortfalls in revenue. This thesis develops three green transportation financing polices based on the fixed vehicle mileage traveled (VMT) fee concept, and analyzes their impact on revenue generation, congestion management,...

This dissertation studies inter-firm network formation and performance implication. Different from current network formation literature that focuses on the actor or dyad level, this dissertation examines network formation and its performance implication at the group level. Specifically, I...

The main objective of this thesis is to identify the reasons why firms choose to issue unit IPOs instead of share-only IPOs. Evidence is found that unit firms are smaller, riskier, with higher level of agency costs and higher levels of information asymmetry than share-only firms and unit IPOs...