Browsing by Author "Craig M. Lewis"

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    • Commodity price dynamics: evidence and theory 
      Wang, Chih-Wei (2008-10-10)
      Department: Economics
      My dissertation studies the dynamics of primary commodity prices empirically and theoretically. In Chapter II, I provide empirical evidence on the time series behavior of commodity price movements. Employing monthly prices ...
    • Essays in Corporate Finance 
      Wang, Cong (2007-06-25)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter examines the valuation effect of information asymmetry and the role of financial intermediaries as information gathering and processing experts. In a sample of ...
    • Essays in corporate governance 
      Reza, Syed Walid (2013-08-05)
      Department: Management
      The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay finds that corporate giving is associated with CEO characteristics, but not with measures of firms most likely to benefit in terms of increased profitability. This ...
    • Essays in Corporate Governance 
      Guo, Lixiong (2012-05-18)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation uses forced CEO turnover events to provide new evidence on three important questions in finance and economics. Chapter one studies the causal relation between board structure and effectiveness of internal ...
    • Meta-Standards and Order-Qualifiers: An Event Study of the Impact of ISO 9000 Certification on the Market Value of a Firm 
      McGuire, Stephen John (2005-12-05)
      Department: Management of Technology
      While ISO 9000 has been shown to improve internal metrics of firm performance, external measurements may be unaffected. This thesis examines the economic value of ISO 9000 by assessing the equity returns and risk parameters ...
    • Money and finance in dynamic models with search for informational frictions 
      Zhang, Jun (2005-04-08)
      Department: Economics
      The presence of severe search frictions undermines technological development since the long waiting period for the subsequent trade would discourage the selectiveness of product qualities. The introduction of money will ...
    • Three essays in empirical corporate finance 
      Zhang, Shage (2012-06-22)
      Department: Management
      My dissertation consists of three essays that address two topics: (1) the compensation gaps among top corporate executives; (2) the effects of institutional arrangements on firm debt financing decisions. The first essay ...
    • Three essays on market microstructure 
      Kim, Sukwon (2009-06-19)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation studies price discovery processes, stock order imbalances, and trading patterns around seasoned equity offerings. First chapter studies how the volatility of a stock is affected by the trading activity ...