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Showing 1 to 20 of 751 for “"investor"”.
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Essays on Investor Attention
This thesis investigates retail and institutional investor attention and their effects on the dynamics of asset pricing. First, it examines the attention implications on the liquidity of cross section of stocks, as well as seasonal patterns of investor attention. It documents that increased …
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INVESTOR ATTENTION AND SENTIMENT
Investor sentiment and attention are often linked to the same non-economic events making it difficult to understand why and how asset prices are affected. This thesis disentangles these two potential drivers of market behaviour by studying how investors react to sports outcomes, weather conditions …
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Essays on Investor Attention
… consists of three chapters that examine investor attention and its impact on corporate events and asset prices using a Google search-based measure of investor attention.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 1 </strong>This chapter investigates investor attention patterns and its determinants. I …
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Investor sentiment and stock returns
… doesn't seem to relate to previous proxies for investor sentiment, however, when I examine survey measures of interest rates and consumer confidence we find a relationship. I then examine how sentiment affects the cross section of stock returns, consistent with predictions I find that small …
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Merger activity and investor preference.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1970. M.S .
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Rethinking Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reforms
… second major proposed reform, which is to limit investor access to investment arbitration. This study uses the E.C.J. decision banning almost all forms of intra-EU investment arbitration to shed light on the ramifications of such limiting of investor access to arbitration, including the upward …
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Multiyear Cat Bonds and Investor Behavior
… contexts and by using results from the investor psychology literature.
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Corporate Bond Liquidity and Investor Sentiment
I evaluate the effect of firm-level investor sentiment derived from Twitter feed and news stories on a firm’s bond liquidity. I employ an ordinary least squares regression to examine the relationship between firm-level investor sentiment and corporate bond liquidity. The results indicate that a …
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TAX DISPUTES IN INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION
This thesis examines tax disputes adjudicated by investor-state tribunals. I argue that the nature of taxation – a compulsory levy – is unlike any other state regulatory measure such as an environmental or a public health measure. I suggest that tax-related investment disputes constitute a unique …
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Behavioral Finance: Factors Influencing Angel Investor Decisions
<p>Angel investors are individual investors who invest in high-risk projects without the assistance of professional portfolio advisors and are an important source of early-stage entrepreneurial financing. When providing financing, an angel must decide how much time to spend on due diligence, the …
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The Small Investor Vs. The Stock Market
… spare time. This type of person is the small investor. He can be described as the small investor because of his individual financial stature in the market and because the small investors of America amount for less than ten per cent of the daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange. | The …
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Essays on corporate governance and investor disagreement
… examining the roles of corporate governance and investor disagreement, respectively, in the performance and stock market valuations of firms. In the first chapter, I demonstrate that the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance varies with industry performance cycles. Firms …
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Investor preferences in the securities options market
… in different time periods. We propose that when investors maximize expected utility for Friedman-Savage-Markowitz utility functions, the option mispricing observed in the market will result. The theories and empirical tests in the literature of higher-order utility functions and risk-neutral …
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The impact of investor sentiment on IPO underpricing
We find that the abnormal trading by small investors is positively related to IPO underpricing. In addition to this firm specific investor sentiment, the market wide investor sentiment is also positively related with IPO underpricing significantly. Investor sentiment is positively related with IPO …
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Asset management--service quality : the institutional investor perspective
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.
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Investor relations: defender of the faith at Commerce Bancorp
<p>The study's results will show that the investor relations department at Commerce Bancorp Inc. helped to minimize damage to the company following the indictments of two of its officials in a Philadelphia corruption probe.</p> <p>Primary and secondary research will show that Commerce's IR …
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Investor protection and the costs of public policy failure
Competitive markets respond automatically to change. Corrective forces are delivered by the pricing mechanism, where price changes indicate new allocations in the consumption of economic resources. Those market participants that are unable to respond adequately to change fail, resulting in a …
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The mediating role of attitudes in using investor relations websites
… many different goals including serving their Investor Relations (IR) functions. These functions can be regarded as effective when their intended users are satisfied with the information and facilities provided on companies’ IR websites. Many studies indicate that user behaviours such as …
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