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A Public Policy Approach to Status Interventions and Unintended Consequences.
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Author
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Jamil, Cayce
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Social sciences--Research, Social structure, Government policy
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Description
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This dissertation examines whether there are unintended consequences that emerge from status interventions in task groups in relation to cohesion and solidarity. Past theorists have argued that inconsistent status structures produce weaker levels ...
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Analysis of tanking in the National Football League
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Author
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Nance, William
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Sports economics literature has recently explored the idea that there is an incentive to intentionally lose games in some professional sports leagues. This process is known as "tanking" and is largely related to a league’s amateur draft policies. ...
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Corruption, Inequality, or Growth: Illuminatic Trinity or Nature?
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Author
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Fowler, Joe
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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This paper explores popular economic, political, and social conceptions of the relationshipbetween income inequality and corruption. Contemporary politics have become heavily divided on income inequality. Therefore, using current econometric metho...
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DYNAMIC CONVEX OPTIMAL POWER FLOW APPROACHES FOR MODERN POWER GRID
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Author
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Moghadasi, Seyedmahdi
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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Non-convexity of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem in power systems poses difficulties in reaching optimal solutions which can adversely affect the overall solution efficiency, convergence and appropriate scheduling of generators. Dynamic convex OP...
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Durability, Indirect Bankruptcy Costs, and Capital Structure
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Author
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Shah, Dhara
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance, Economics
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Description
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I contribute to the literature by formally modeling the indirect bankruptcy costs for a firm that sells durable goods. Consumers concerned about warranties or future product services penalize the distressed firm by putting off purchases or leaving...
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Title
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FBS CONFERENCE SIZE AND ITS EFFECT ON PROFITABILITY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
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Author
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Moore, Christopher
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Previous studies have explored the dynamic between member schools and the conferences to which they belong, particularly regarding optimal alignment and profit maximization. Conference members have to decide whether switching is worthwhile, and as...
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HAS THE SHRIMPING INDUSTRY BOUNCED BACK SINCE DEEPWATER HORIZON?
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Author
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BROWNSTEIN, JONATHAN
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Nearly fifteen months after the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill of April 20, 2010, later characterized as one of the largest accidental oil spills in United States history, BP submitted findings showing that the Gulf economy reached pre-spill act...
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How High School Location Affects Your Odds to Make it to the NBA
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Author
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Chopra, Rajat
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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Some states or metropolitan statistical areas produce more professional athletes when compared to their representation in the population whereas some areas produce less than their represented population. Figure 1 shows the geographical distributio...
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, AGENCY COSTS, MONITORING, AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
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Author
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JIN, LICHENG
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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This dissertation focuses on the general research topic: organizational structure, agency costs, and monitoring in financial institutions. The first topic is on the organizational structure change in the insurance industry. Using data of demutuali...
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Tax Structure and Economic Growth: An OECD Analysis
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Author
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Raynor, Luke
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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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...
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
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Author
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Piao, Taichun
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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The first paper ("Does Executive Compensation Duration Generate Different Risk Incentives? Evidence on Corporate Hedging") investigates whether and how corporate hedging policy is affected by compensation duration. I find a positive and significan...
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Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies
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Author
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Villatoro Godoy, Karla
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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KARLA NATALIA VILLATORO GODOY. Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID C. MAUER) In the first chapter ("Brand Equity and Corporate Debt Structure"), we develop measures of brand equity based on firms’ portfo...
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Three Essays on Managerial Compensation
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Author
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Lonare, Gunratan
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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In the first chapter titled "CEOs’ Capital Gains Tax Liabilities and Accounting Conservatism", I study whether CEOs’ tax liability affect conservative accounting policy. Recent studies show that the tax-induced lock-in effect discourages CEOs’ to ...
