Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to extend the social loafing literature by investigating the role of group development process on perceptions of social loafing within groups. Building on extant literature, it is contended that group members’ association with the group development stages...

This thesis aims to contribute to monetary policy studies by conducting fundamental research and gathering empirical evidence on the effectiveness of monetary policy in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan. The financial crisis in 2007/08 highlighted the weakness of using nominal interest rates as...

The three essays in this dissertation examine issues related to corporate governance, investment, and financing. In the first essay, I analyze the consequences of CEO succession on board composition. I show that existing independent directors with no social ties to an incoming CEO are more...