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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Four Essays on Managerial Incentives

Abstract

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"In chapter 4, we consider the unexpected share price reaction to corporate news announcements. We first consider whether there is more information content in similar corporate news announcements for different types of firms. Second, we investigate whether the value of news information about these firms has declined over time using a variety of empirical methods. We use 31 years of data on corporate dividend announcements, stock split announcements, and earnings announcements for a large set of U.S. firms to investigate these topics. The investigation of the entire distributions of returns using kernel density estimators rejects the ""news is no longer newsworthy"" idea."

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Economics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Mashayekhi, Farzad
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Kevin F. Hallock

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3101917
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85538

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Mashayekhi, Farzad. Four Essays on Managerial Incentives. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85538