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Title: The Price of Control: An empirical investigation of the control premium in M&A transactions, pre and post the financial crisis of 2007/2008.
Author: Dietz, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: This paper investigates the control premium in change of control transactions. Ithas taken a large-scale approach to the subject while also adding a pre- and post-crisisperspective. A regression model is built based on financial theory and previou...

Title: The Influence of Reference Group Contributions on Individual Charitable Giving
Author: Skeate, Keegan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The act of giving to charity seems to arise from interpersonal comparisons of relative well-being. The purpose of this study is to test if reference group comparisons of charitable contributions influence the propensity to give to charity. Apart f...

Title: The Influence of Local Professional Sports Teams on Bureaucratic Productivity
Author: Readhead, William
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Public administration
Description: The correlation between state government output and the performance of local sports teams is used to assess the degree and direction of the relationship. The goal is to identify a nationally preferred sport using granular data (state level vs nati...

Title: The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Unintentional Shootings Perpetrated by Children
Author: Nussbaum, Sofia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: Holding gun owners responsible when a child accesses a firearm is one of the reasons Child Access Prevention Laws emerged. Previous studies have focused on fatal shootings in which the victim is a child without identifying the age of the perpetrat...

Title: Tax Structure and Economic Growth: An OECD Analysis
Author: Raynor, Luke
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide an analytical analysis on how different tax structures of OECD countries affect their rates of economic growth from the period 1980-2004. This thesis attempts to gather results so that governments may bette...

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE BREXIT REFERENDUM ON VARIOUS WORLD STOCK MARKETS
Author: Arora, Jasleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The event study methodology is employed to analyze the impact of the British decisionto leave the European Union on various stock market indexes, namely Australia -ALL ORDINARIES; Canada - S&P TSX Composite Index; India - BSE Sensex; NewZealand - ...

Title: THE IMPACT OF STRESS TESTING ON THE SYSTEMIC RISK OF BANK HOLDING COMPANIES
Author: Konstantopoulos, Theodoros
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The impact of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 on the global banking system raised concerns regarding the capital adequacy of banks. While the banks were already conducting internal stress tests before the financial crisis that was not enough to ...

Title: THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL CHANGE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SOCCER TEAMS – AN EVENT STUDY ON THE TWO TOP TIER SWEDISH DIVISIONS
Author: Roskors, Andre
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This research examines the impact of managerial changes on Swedish soccer teams from the first and second Swedish soccer league. The research is conducted similar to an event study and regression analysis is employed to investigate the impact of t...

Title: Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
Author: Nelson, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Economics
Description: From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...

Title: Rebalance and Reallocation Behavior Patterns Within Retirement Plans
Author: Graham, Quentin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: I evaluate the determinants that influence the likelihood that an individual rebalances the amounts held in their retirement plan or reallocate the investments they use for future contributions. I do this by analyzing quarterly administrative reco...

Title: REDUCING ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Author: Hamilton, Austin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper estimates the effect wage transparency had on Major League Baseballpitcher’s salaries in the mid to late 1980s. The paper implements a conventionalmethod of wage estimation as previously used in the literature. The data, in partare from...

Title: Quantifying Bias of the U.S. Media: A Spatial Analysis of Product Differentiation on Social Media
Author: Williams, Emily
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: In this study, I create a measure of ideological bias as a means for U.S. news sources to differentiate their products in the growing digital space. In addition to traditional media platforms, such as newspapers and television broadcasts, I includ...

Title: Price and Prejudice: An Empirical Look at the Value Formation of Bitcoin
Author: Doster, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: Bitcoin price formation has been the topic of many studies due to the recent rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies around the globe. The problem not only lies with attempting to find how the value of this currency is established, but finding a fr...

Title: Predicting Startup Success in U.S
Author: Lopes Veloso, Felipe Augusto
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Artificial intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Description: This thesis consists of the creation of a reliable model to predict the success of Startups located in U.S. Previous researches have been focused either on the accuracy of different algorithms, without investigating the real effect of the risk and...

Title: Peer Effects In the Professional Golf Association
Author: Couch, Preston
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: In this analysis I will determine the execution of professional golfers in the final two rounds of a four round tournament. This paper investigates if a player’s performance influences another player’s performance using tee shots on par three hole...

Title: PREDICTING CREDIT DEFAULT RISK VIA STATISTICAL MODEL AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Author: Choubey, Anand
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Financial institutions need to measure risks within their credit portfolios (homeloans, credit card, auto loans, etc.) for regulatory requirements and for internal riskmanagement. To meet these requirements financial institutions increasingly rely...

Title: OPERATIONAL LOSSES: LESSONS FROM SEVEN OF THE LARGEST ROGUE TRADING EVENTS IN HISTORY
Author: Morat, Patricio
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics, Industrial management
Description: Operational losses: Lessons from seven of the largest rogue trading events in history. (Under the direction of DR. ROB ROY MCGREGOR)Operational risk is the risk of losses arising from the failure of people, processes, and systems, and from externa...

Title: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
Author: Robbins, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...

Title: Measuring the Constraint of the Zero lower Bound on Monetary Policy in the United States
Author: Hecksher, Samuel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: After the financial crisis in 2007-2008 the Federal Reserve lowered its target interest rate down to the zero lower bound (ZLB) forcing itself towards unconventional monetary policy. Attempting to mitigate the constraint that is the ZLB, the Fed e...

Title: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...