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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Pledging"”.
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Insider Share-Pledging and Firm Investors
… investors and analyze agency conflicts between pledging managers and (a) outside shareholders, and (b) bondholders. Pledging potentially influences investor risk through changing managerial incentives and/or contingency risk from ill-timed margin calls. Findings suggest influential insiders …
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Three Studies on Hedging Activities and Managerial Opportunism
… second study investigates the impact of share pledging by corporate insiders (i.e. directors, executives) on non-GAAP reporting. Using a hand-collected dataset covering publicly listed U.S. firms for the period 2006-2019, I find that share pledging is positively associated with the likelihood …
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Three Studies on Hedging Activities and Managerial Opportunism
… second study investigates the impact of share pledging by corporate insiders (i.e. directors, executives) on non-GAAP reporting. Using a hand-collected dataset covering publicly listed U.S. firms for the period 2006-2019, I find that share pledging is positively associated with the likelihood …
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Essays on the Thai Economy
… analyses the effect of the government's rice pledging scheme. The insurgency in the southern region of Thailand, including Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, and some parts of Songkhla province, began in 2004. As the end of 2017, the total number of deaths was 6,686 persons, including military, …
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Undergraduate Members Perceptions of the Current Membership Intake Process: Among Selected Black Greek-Lettered Organizations
… 1997, 2003; Ruffins, 1999). Despite the end of pledging, BGLO members instituted 'underground pledging,' unsanctioned events that occurred before, during, and/or after the membership intake process as a way to continue the pledge process (Kimbrough, 2003). As a result, students still perceive …
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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and CEO Dismissal
… Services (ISS) policy changes on share pledging, focusing on financially constrained (FC) firms. It finds that the 2012 prohibition on share pledging leads to a greater decline in shareholder value for FC firms compared to non-financially constrained (NFC) firms. In response, FC firms …
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Building brotherhood: An examination of race, violence, sexuality and black fraternity membership
… sexual and racial meanings throughout the pledging and hazing processes. We present the various strategies that black members use to construct their own sense of masculinity unique to their experiences as black men in American society.</p>
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Assessing the Persistence to Graduation of Students Joining Fraternities at Western Kentucky University
… race, initiation status, year in school when pledging, and organizational affiliation. Pearson Product-Moment Correlations and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data. The results illustrated that students who join fraternities graduate at a higher percentage than the …
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Do share pledges by insiders influence firm performance and value?
… demonstrates the prevalence and importance of pledging of shares by insiders in the U.S. I create the first comprehensive database of share pledges by insiders in the U.S. to reveal the prevalence of this practice and its role in encouraging earnings management. I find that, during the fiscal …
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Pledges and Agreements in Old English - A Semantic Field Study
… terms. One important aspect of the language of pledging is the formulaic word pair að and wedd which comes to stand for the entirety of legal interactions, as no single word for ‘legal agreement’ is used by authors of legal prose. Possibly in part influenced by this development, the meaning of …
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An exploratory study on the perceptions of Zimbabwean women activists regarding the Domestic Violence Act (2007)
… tests and forced marriages, as well as the pledging of the girl child as a form of payment, practices which hitherto were not classified as criminal offences.
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The status of racial integration in men's social fraternities at a select sample of southeastern universities
… at each university and consequently few blacks pledging non-black fraternities. Black fraternities had been established at three of the six universities. Black students at those universities had rushed and occasionally pledged non-black fraternities prior to the formation of the black chapters; …
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Operations of Innovative Business Models
… a high target potentially deters backers from pledging due to the cost of participating in a failed campaign. </p><p>The third chapter explores how to design such crowdfunding campaigns when contributors choose not just whether to contribute, but also when to contribute. We show that strategic …
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Carlo Cattaneo: The Religiosity of a Relunctant Revolutionary
… preferring exile in Switzerland over pledging allegiance to the Savoyard monarchy during the Risorgimento. Historians have almost unanimously declared that Carlo Cattaneo was anticlerical and irreligious. This was not true. CARLO CATTANEO: THE RELIGIOSITY OF A RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY …
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Feasibility of selective multiple boosting in the planning of intracranial radiation therapy
… to sculpt radiation dose in three-dimensions, pledging potential to improve local disease control via conformal dose escalation as well as better normal tissue sparing via conformal avoidance. In this thesis, the feasibility and practicality of delivering high doses to intelligently-defined …
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“I Use Because I'm in Pain”: Perspectives on Harm Reduction Services and Unmet Needs Among People Who Use Fentanyl
BackgroundDespite King County pledging over $10 million to harm reduction measures in 2021, overdose deaths in the area have steadily risen with increasing rates predominantly caused by an increase in use of illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid much stronger than heroin. Previous studies have shown …
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Le nuove tutele contrattuali dei legittimari nella circolazione giuridica
… scholars to question this kind of legal rules pledging for a reform of them. Another question that we have analysed is the so called “family pact”, which is a contract through which an entrepreneur transfer a productive good to a family member. These kinds of transactions are excluded from the …
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Incorporating range uncertainty into proton therapy treatment planning
… the knowledge base in light of HM Government pledging £250 million to build two proton centres in England, to treat NHS patients from 2018. Use of methods described in this dissertation will aid in the establishment of clear and pre-defined protocols for treating patients in the future.
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Quantifying barriers to recycling plastic packaging in the United States
… innovative technological solutions and companies pledging circular measures to nations setting ambitious recycling targets. Yet, recycling rates for plastics remain abysmally low (<8\%). In this dissertation, I use a supply-demand approach to investigate why we don’t recycle more plastics and …
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