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Form follows finance? ...finance follows form?
This dissertation aims to develop a first understanding of the office market requirements of firms in the financial sector with a view to obtaining a better basis for public and private investment. The study also seeks to oiutline which areas in the Maltese Islands are most sought after by …
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Essays in Household Finance and Education Finance
… consists of three essays in household finance and education finance. The first essay studies how the portfolio allocation of college savings affects children's college attendance and student debt using novel data on 529 college savings accounts linked with student-level longitudinal …
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Islamic finance versus conventional finance and the taxation consequences.
… to discuss the underlying principles of Islamic finance and its tax implications for investors and financial institutions. The nature of Islamic financial products is compared to its conventional financial counterpart to identify whether differences exist between Islamic and conventional finance …
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Two Essays in Finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Financial Literacy
… examines two inter-related topics in finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Finance. Both Cultural Finance and Behavioral Finance assume that humans are boundedly rational or irrational, thus rejecting traditional or neoclassical notions of pure rationality. Specifically, this …
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Essays on finance
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Essays in finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Essays on finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994.
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Essays on finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Essays in Information Finance
… the central role of information in modern finance. It studies two types of flow: information moving between markets, and information moving from big data sources to investors. The first essay, "Cross-Market Price Discovery and Selective Delta Hedging in the Option Market," investigates the …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
<bold>This dissertation studies the effects of information asymmetry, financial constraints and stock market valuation on the behavior of firms. The first essay explores the role of deal initiation and bidder asymmetry in determining the use of auction and target premia in merges and acquisitions. …
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Essays in Household Finance
… education (including a semester-long personal finance class) and relevant financial experiences. Furthermore, preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial (N=117) suggest that an hour-long financial education workshop on the main financial aspects of college increases students' GPA by …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… consists of three chapters in corporate finance and private equity. Chapter 1, “Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising”, co-authored with Ji-Woong Chung, Berk Sensoy and Michael Weisbach, studies the incentives of private equity general partners (GPs). …
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Three Essays In Finance
<p>My dissertation is composed of two papers on R&D investment, and another paper on the cross section of stock returns.</p> <p>Chapter One investigates the effect of legal shareholder protection on the efficiency of corporate R&D investment. The main finding is that institutional protection of …
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Essays In Corporate Finance
… dissertation studies two questions in corporate finance: 1) Does knowledge sharing affect innovation? and 2) How do profit sharing and loss sharing affect the choice of underwriting fees and offer prices in the IPO market? In the first chapter, I investigate the impact of knowledge sharing on …
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Three essays in finance
There are three individual chapters in this dissertation. The first chapter studies the effect of monitoring by the lenders of a syndicated loan on the borrowing firm's ex post performance. In the syndicated loan market, the lead bank has an advantage on information collection. For that reason, …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… three essays that explore topics in corporate finance and banking. Chapter 1 studies the role of board's political connections in corporate misconduct. Leveraging a policy shock in China that mandated politically connected directors to resign from corporate boards, I find that following the …
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Essays in International Finance
… decision making in the global environment. Finance literature has established that investors do not allocate their investments in mean variance efficient portfolios. Instead, variables such as economic development and familiarity impact the portfolio allocation at home and abroad. In my …
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Essays in International Finance
During the last two decades, Europe has gone through an extraordinary period of economic, monetary, and financial integration, culminating in the introduction of the single currency in January 1999. These changes impacted on both the structure and functioning of the financial system. Recent …
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Essays in international finance
This thesis investigates three issues related to foreign exchange market. The fist issue is whether commodity prices can beat random walk benchmark by generating more accurate out-of-sample forecasts. The empirical results show that contemporaneous prices outperform the random walk at the daily …
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