Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to answer a fundamental question – are individual stock picks by a particular internet investment community informative enough to beat the market? The author observes that the stock picks by the CAPS community are reflective of existing information and...

This dissertation studies the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and itseffects on foreign exchange markets and corporate cash holdings. These two potentialeffects are examined in the dissertation in two separate essays.The first essay examines the validity of the purchasing power parity...

This dissertation provides a comprehensive analysis of shareholder rights plans and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for a unique class of securities, i.e., the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) between 1988 and 2000. This research seeks to establish what form of management, ownership...