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  • Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance

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    Chapter 1: Product Market Strategy and Capital Structure: Evidence from Resale Price Maintenance', "This paper studies how a firm's pricing strategy affects its financial leverage. Retailers vary in pricing strategy, ranging from low markup (i.e., ``discount''), no frills retailers to high markup retailers that offer extensive service. The choice of...
    Keyword:
    Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Grant Thomas Clayton
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/30/2019
    Date Modified:
    09/30/2019
    Date Created:
    1/1/2018
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Do Stock Mergers Create Value for Acquires?

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    This dissertation studies whether stock mergers creates value for acquirers. The first chapter of this dissertation conducts a comprehensive review of the existing merger literature relevant to this topic. It includes existing merger theories, empirical studies on whether mergers are value destroying or value creating, and methodological issues on empirical...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Qi Lu
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/17/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/17/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-10-02
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics

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    In this dissertation we analyze the decision process of firms and individuals along two dimensions which are central to the field of asset pricing and macroeconomics. In the first chapter, we study the pricing decision of the firm in a framework where customer base matters. Surveys of managers show that...
    Keyword:
    Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Yizhaq Kleshchelski
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/07/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/07/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-05-08
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Optimal Contracting

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    The first chapter of this dissertation studies a continuous-time agency model where the agent controls the drift of the geometric Brownian motion firm size. The changing firm size generates partial incentives, analogous to awarding the agent equity shares according to her continuation payoff. When the agent is as patient as...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Zhiguo He
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    08/31/2018
    Date Modified:
    08/31/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-04-23
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Market Imperfections and Asset Prices

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies two long-standing asset pricing anomalies: "Value and Growth Effects" and "Momentum Effects" via the channel of market imperfections. These market imperfections stem from basic information asymmetry problem, and take forms of contracting problems and less than perfectly competitive information intermediaries. The first essay (joint with Zhi Da)...
    Keyword:
    Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Pengjie Gao
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    06/25/2018
    Date Modified:
    06/25/2018
    Date Created:
    2007-05-14
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    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 Real Estate Finance

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    This dissertation consists of three chapters that each study the interaction between government policy and real estate markets. All three chapters are connected by a broad interest in renters, landlords, and rental markets. Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between place-based policies and real estate and rental markets empirically by studying...
    Keyword:
    Rental Markets, Real Estate, and Finance
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Hair, Christopher
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_902849 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16077