In the first chapter titled "CEOs’ Capital Gains Tax Liabilities and Accounting Conservatism", I study whether CEOs’ tax liability affect conservative accounting policy. [...]

In this study, I examine the Fannie Mae (FNMA) single-family mortgage loan modification process over the period from 1999 to 2021. Loan modification rates are higher duri[...]

This dissertation focuses on the general research topic: organizational structure, agency costs, and monitoring in financial institutions. The first topic is on the organ[...]

The first paper ("Does Executive Compensation Duration Generate Different Risk Incentives? Evidence on Corporate Hedging") investigates whether and how corporate hedging [...]

The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay examines how a tournament among CEOs to progress within the CEO labor market changes their tendency toward corp[...]

This dissertation consists of three essays on corporate finance and machine learning. The first essay investigates the relation between CEO conscientiousness and reserve [...]