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Chan, Ka Ho | A survey of exchange rate systems with focus on currency boards and on Hong Kong's experience in particular | The choice of an exchange rate regime can make or break a regional economy. While a stable currency is useful to businesses, exchange rate flexibility also has its proponents. This thesis will first describe a brief history of exchange rate systems. Then, it will provide a survey and analysis of the... | Foreign exchange rates - China - Hong Kong; Currency boards - China - Hong Kong | 2014-05 |
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Moore, Kurt | Disproportionate associations between the financial crisis and firm valuation | In this thesis I assess the role of stock market valuation of publicly listed US firms through the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2011. To do so, for each firm in a large sample I apply the Rhodes-Kropf, Robinson, and Viswanathan(2005) approach to decompose the ratio of the market value of th... | Corporations -- United States -- Valuation; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | 2014-12 |
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Jin, Zhao | How is the company's stock risk associated with its demand elasticity? | I examine a sample of 20 companies to see if individual total stock risk is associated with its product or service demand elasticity. My evidence is consistent with my first hypothesis that elastic firms' stock prices are more strongly affected by the changes in the input cost than are inelastic fir... | Elasticity (Economics); Risk; Stocks; Stock risk | 2014-05 |
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Tran, Amy | Investigating the strategic patterns in LBO funds | In the mid-2000s, public-to-private transactions reappeared when the United States experienced a second leveraged buyout boom. Most sponsors are paid a management fee of 2% on the fund's capital and receive a carried interest of 20% of the profits realized by the fund. Two literature reviews serve a... | Leveraged buyouts--United States--Finance | 2014-08 |
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Richins, Luke | Preventing corporate fraud | This thesis is written with the purpose of exploring employee's perception of the effect of different methods of corporate fraud prevention on their own behavior. To accomplish this, this paper will explore the definition of fraud, potential prevention methods, and analyze data retrieved from a surv... | Corporations - Corrupt practices - Prevention; Fraud - Prevention | 2014-04 |