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Showing 1 to 20 of 1207 for “"empirical studies"”.
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Empirical Studies in Asset Management
The dissertation presents three empirical studies in the field of asset management. The first essay investigates whether within-firm connections alter manager career concerns and if investment distinctiveness, employee risk-taking and fund performance are affected. I measure connectedness using a …
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Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
This dissertation consists of three empirical studies in entrepreneurial finance around the world. The first essay empirically compares the impact of entrepreneurship on GDP, unemployment, exports, and patents by examining three international datasets. The findings of this essay point to …
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Empirical Studies of Novices Learning Programming
… other different problems.<br></br><br></br>An empirical study was carried out to study the transfer effects of learning two of the languages, a high level and a low level language, sequentially. There was no evidence for such transfer effects. The difficulties novices have in learning the four …
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Engaging with Uncertainty: Three Empirical Studies
… wealth. My dissertation, comprising three empirical studies, investigates management decision-making and firm performance under uncertainty. The first study examines how organizational stress represented by resource constraints impacts firm performance. Drawing from the psychology-based …
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Empirical studies of taxes and capital
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Three Essays in Empirical Studies on Derivatives
This thesis is a collection of three essays in empirical studies on derivatives. In the first chapter, I investigate whether credit default swap spreads are affected by how the total risk is decomposed into the systematic risk and the idiosyncratic risk for a given level of the total risk. The risk …
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Empirical studies on changes in oil governance
… access rights like other oil companies. However, empirical literature on these changes in oil governance is quite thin. Thus, this dissertation will explore three research questions to investigate empirically these changes in oil governance. First, I investigate empirically the impact of the …
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Empirical studies of financial and labor economics
… in financial and labor economics. It provides empirical evidence for testing the efficient market hypothesis in some financial markets and for analyzing the trends of power couples’ concentration in large metropolitan areas. The first chapter investigates the Bitcoin market’s efficiency by …
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Empirical Studies on Early Childhood Education in Germany
… education in Germany. It aims at providing an empirical contribution to four issues in early childhood education: the development of cognitive and noncognitive skills (chapter 1-3), institutional child care (chapter 4), the intergenerational transmission of a child's health (chapter 5), and the …
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Empirical studies on economic consequences of accounting standards
This thesis consists of three self-contained studies on economic consequences of accounting standards. The first study jointly examines the informational value of pension liability recognition mandated in France under IFRS and its effect on firms’ financing decisions. We argue that changes in …
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The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies
… the determinants of housing renovation in an empirical framework that is comparable to previous studies. The consistency of the results across the two cities and time periods attests to the conclusions' robustness. Using an aggregated version of the Chicago data, the third chapter estimates …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
This thesis consists of three empirical studies that address issues of public economics in developing countries. Two broad questions motivated me in turn: one, the effect of household institutions on the provision of old age security; and two, the effect of political institutions on government …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
To be human is to experience biology, culture and the necessity of economic interaction. My research interests answer a broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
To be human is to experience biology, culture and the necessity of economic interaction. My research interests answer a broad question, "How do biological and cultural commitments interact with economic incentives to shape day-to-day choices?" Social welfare functions should take into account how …
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Empirical studies of oligopolistic pricing and heterogeneous consumer search
… (Chapter 3). Chapter 1 seeks to establish the empirical importance of price dispersion due to costly consumer search by examining retail prices for prescription drugs. Posted prices in two geographically distinct markets are shown to vary considerably across pharmacies within the same market, …
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Empirical studies of marketing, product differentiation, pricing, and competition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Empirical Studies in Financial Econometrics: Market Functioning, Forecasting, and Reform
… comprises three chapters at the intersection of empirical finance and public policy. The chapters are linked by their examination of how financial markets and information transmission within these interact with macroeconomic modelling, regulatory intervention, and institutional design. The first …
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Empirical studies of new markets in the U.S. electronics industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Empirical Studies in Production Economics and International Agricultural Development Issues
This dissertation is composed of two manuscripts in Production Economics and two manuscripts in International Agricultural Development. The first two manuscripts focus on production economics, and both are an exploration of nitrogen use and its impact on continuous corn production and profitability …
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Empirical Studies of Mobile Apps and Their Dependence on Mobile Platforms
… such apps by performing three quantitative studies. First, we study differences in the size of the code bases and development teams of desktop/server applications and mobile apps. We then study differences in the code, dependency and churn properties of mobile apps from two different mobile …
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