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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Financial decisions"”.
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Financial decisions of households
… digit of numerical information when making decisions. This paper tests for the existence of left-digit bias in the consumer credit card market. Using a regression-discontinuity design, I find sharp increases in credit card repayments around $1,000 monthly balance thresholds. The estimated …
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Manager Personal Traits and Financial Decisions
… they are expected to make value-enhancing decisions based on their professional knowledge and skills. However, economic agents’ decisions are heavily influenced by their preferences, which are often related to their personal characteristics. Therefore, studying manager personal traits could …
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Three essays on corporate financial decisions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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The impact of the global financial crisis and institutional settings on corporate financial decisions.
… this study explores the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009 and institutional settings in determining corporate financial decisions. The recession on the supply of credit and demand for credit affects the corporate financial channels. The credit recession causes more …
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Analyzing factors that AVID students perceive important in making financial decisions about paying for college
… AVID students perceive as important in making financial decisions about paying for college. This study analyzed the factors college-bound students perceive as important in making decisions about paying for college. Trends in higher education include the rising cost of attendance, longer degree …
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The impact of capital market imperfections on capital and R&D Investment and financial decisions
… (R&D/TINV) ratio. This thesis uses non-financial US and UK publicly listed firms. Our work consists of a number of important and original aspects that potentially contribute to the literature on capital market imperfections.The study of the ICFS comprises one of the largest literatures …
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The impact of corporate governance and ownership structure on performance and financial decisions of firms : evidence from Jordan
… performance, foreign investment and corporate financial decisions. For this purpose, it uses firm-level corporate governance and ownership data from Jordan. Jordan is an economy in which the prevailing corporate structures and regulatory mechanisms provide a data set that lends itself …
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Changes in Shared Decision-Making Roles and Perceived Stress in Syrian Refugee Parents Resettled in the Greater Toronto Area: A Cross-Sectional Study
… in shared decision-making roles (day-to-day, financial, and major life decisions) and the relationship of those changes to perceived stress among 148 Syrian refugee parents after resettling in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) using a generalized estimated equation (GEE) model. An acculturative …
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
… between product market competition and firms’ financial decisions has been a subject of interest (e.g., Khanna and Tice (2000), Xu(2012), Jiang, Kim, Nofsinger, and Zhu (2015)), the lack of exogenous variation has hindered definitive inferences. This thesis explores the impact of the …
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Financial Decision Making Under Stress
… is to examine the link between individuals' financial decisions and stress. In a laboratory experiment, Holt and Laury lottery was used to elicit participants risk preferences. The Cold Pressor Test was used to induce a safe level of stress. In the treatment group, 62% of participants are …
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance and Banking
Chapter III examines how a firm's financial decisions are influenced by both its corporate tax status as well as the personal tax status of its particular investors. Using the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as exogenous shock to firms' tax status, I model how a firm with a specific investor tax clientele …
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The Determinants of Microinsurance Demand in South Africa
… face significant risk that influence their financial decisions and perpetuate poverty. This population group is adversely affected by illnesses, natural disasters, unemployment, and accidents than other groups because, among other things, they lack proper insurance. Microinsurance was …
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Accounting expertise and decision-making through the lens of Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT)
… with experience in a domain, experts base their decisions on the meaning of the information (gist) rather than the verbatim details, reflecting the use of domain knowledge. FTT studies demonstrate that experts and novices construct different levels of memory representation. Experts are more …
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The development of a life cycle cost model for railroad tunnels
… more insight to make better and more appropriate financial decisions. In addition, a separate analysis called Sensitivity Analysis can also be applied to predict any changes that may affect the Life Cycle Cost of a certain investment. These tools if used together can effectively evaluate any …
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The Design Plan for a Comprehensive Financial Literacy Program
The need for financial literacy among Americans has become a national topic of interest. Economists, financial professionals, educators, and government officials recognize there is an overall deficit of financial knowledge. More specifically, higher education administrators have become increasingly …
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Essays in financial economics
This dissertation consists of three essays in financial economics, with a focus on household financial decisions and their implications for asset pricing and macroeconomic dynamics. In Chapter 1, I use data on the portfolio holdings and income of millions of US retirement investors to show that …
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Cash-Flow Risks, Financial Leverage and the Cross Section of Equity Returns
What is the cross-sectional relationship between financial leverage and expected equity returns? How is the empirical relationship associated with firm's financial decisions? This dissertation investigates the potential explanations for the flatness relation between financial leverage and expected …
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