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Title: A Public Policy Approach to Status Interventions and Unintended Consequences.
Author: Jamil, Cayce
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Social structure, Government policy
Description: 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 ...

Title: A Unified Treatment of Derivative Pricing and Forward Decision Problems Within HJM Framework
Author: Zou, Wenhua
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Finance
Description: We study the HJM approach which was originally introduced in the fixed income market by David Heath, Robert Jarrow and Andrew Morton and later was implemented in the case of European option market by Martin Schweizer, Johannes Wissel, Rene Carmona...

Title: BCRA: BEFORE CAMPAIGNING RETAIN AN ATTORNEY. AN INSTITUTIONAL STUDY OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE CONTRIBUTION LIMITS ON CANDIDATE EMERGENCE IN THE 50 UNITED STATES
Author: Shepherd, Mary Jo
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science
Description: This study looks at campaign finance statutes and their effect on candidate decisions in a novel way. Using institutional theory as a backdrop, this study uses the language of the campaign finance statutes as measured with plain language utilities...

Title: DYNAMIC CONVEX OPTIMAL POWER FLOW APPROACHES FOR MODERN POWER GRID
Author: Moghadasi, Seyedmahdi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: 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...

Title: Durability, Indirect Bankruptcy Costs, and Capital Structure
Author: Shah, Dhara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: 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...

Title: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, AGENCY COSTS, MONITORING, AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Author: JIN, LICHENG
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

Title: THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE: A THREE-ARTICLE STUDY ON THE DECISION TO JOIN AND THE IMPACTS OF A CAP AND TRADE MARKET
Author: Jones, Brian
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Environmental economics
Description: This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary view of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon dioxide cap and trade market. Specifically, I analyze both the factors contributing to state participation within the Initiative and the mult...

Title: Three Essays in Corporate Finance
Author: Piao, Taichun
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

Title: Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies
Author: Villatoro Godoy, Karla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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...

Title: Three Essays on Managerial Compensation
Author: Lonare, Gunratan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: 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 ...

Title: VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
Author: Canales, Kristine Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Government policy, Economics
Description: Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...