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  • Essays in Stock Markets and Transparency

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    Description:
    This thesis examines the role of the media in stock markets and the role of transparency in investment decisions. In the first two chapters, I investigate how the contrasting trends in media coverage and earnings guidance have affected stock price informativeness over the past two decades. I develop a model...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Topbas, Yunus
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_889149 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15976

  • Essays on Information and Asset Prices

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    Description:
    Chapter 1: Despite the rapid growth of passive ownership over the past 30 years, there is no consensus on how or why passive ownership affects stock price informativeness. This paper provides a new answer to this question by examining how passive ownership changes investors' incentives to acquire information. I develop...
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Sammon, Marco
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_818012 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15554

  • Essays in Investment Theory

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    Description:
    his dissertation addresses questions of investment theories in financial economics. Chapter 1 studies investment problem with ambiguity and agency friction in a optimal contracting framework, where investors (principal) have ambiguous beliefs about the cash flows and the managers (agent) can pursue unobservable risk-taking strategies that earn cash flow but may...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Liu, Yufeng
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15560 and etdadmin_upload_818233

  • Essays on Financial Intermediation

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    Description:
    This dissertation contains three chapters. In Chapter 1, I study the effects of bank leverage ratio restrictions in a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy where lenders can anticipate bank runs. This framework allows the analysis of the tradeoffs associated with bank capital requirements - while unlimited leverage allows capital...
    Keyword:
    mortgage, credit supply, haircut, creditor rights, collateral, and repo
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Lewis, Brittany Almquist
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/01/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15346 and etdadmin_upload_773034

  • Essays in Household and Corporate Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation addresses questions in the fields of household finance and corporate finance. In Chapter 1, I use a quasi-experiment in Norway to examine how households respond to capital taxation. The introduction of a new wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes,...
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/01/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_759556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15210

  • Essays on finance and development

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    Description:
    This thesis investigates various aspects of productivity. In the first chapter I investigate the role of consumer demand in generating productivity dispersion. In particular, I study how differences in consumer preferences across the household income distribution generate dispersion in markups across the Indian manufacturing sector. I find that this consumer...
    Keyword:
    Productivity, Financial Technology, India, Consumer Demand, Information Frictions, and Misallocation
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Gupta, Apoorv
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15092 and etdadmin_upload_742465

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    Description:
    Technological innovation is a key determinant of economic growth, and my dissertation is to understand the links between the investment of technological innovation and financial markets, with a focus on how the macroeconomic environment interacts with and is influenced by the financial constraints facing firms. Chapter one investigates the links...
    Keyword:
    Macroeconomic, Innovation, Debt, Technology, Economic Growth, and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Huang, Qiushi
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15047 and etdadmin_upload_732371

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    Description:
    Chapter 1 proposes a parsimonious two-country, two-good, and complete-market model featuring heterogeneous beliefs to address the Backus-Smith, volatility, and forward premium puzzles in international finance. The presence of the time-varying difference in beliefs has direct and indirect effects on equilibrium exchange rates. The direct effect appears as a wedge in...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    XIa, Shixiang
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15074 and etdadmin_upload_741127

  • Essays in Technology, Finance, and Labor

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    Description:
    This dissertation is a wide-range study of the relationships between the three central elements of the production function: technology, capital and its financing, and labor. Chapter 1 analyzes the relationship between labor and recent wave of automation and digitization technologies, showing that while they typically substitute for workers, in several...
    Keyword:
    flexibility, labor supply, household debt, capital structure, automation and digitization, and labor scarcity
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Labor economics
    Creator:
    Zator, Michal
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_737737 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15059

  • Capital Inflows, Capital Controls and Risk Misallocation

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    Description:
    Foreign currency debt has led to many crises in emerging markets. In the past decade, firms in emerging economies have drastically increased their foreign currency borrowing, making them significantly exposed to depreciation shocks. To reduce their exposure to external shocks, central banks have increased their use of regulation, such as...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Keller, Lorena
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    04/29/2020
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14972 and etdadmin_upload_715245