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Anderson, Jay T. | Abnormal Stock Returns and Hurricanes Event Study of the five Most Destructive Hurricanes to make Landfall in the United States Since 2005 | This paper tests how stock prices respond to information that may affect a company's value in a material fashion. I evaluate stock price reactions to the five most destructive hurricanes to make landfall in the United States since 2005. The event study aims to analyze short-term stock price reaction... | | 2017 |
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Hansen, Luke Freedom | Exploring the Effects of Virtual Reality on Empathy and Charitable Fundraising | The focus of this Honors thesis is to explore the effects of Virtual Reality ("VR") on empathy. More specifically, the purpose is to compare and contrast the ability of VR to evoke empathy against that of traditional two-dimensional media ("2D"). To accomplish this I (alongside a group of my peers) ... | | 2018 |
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Shaaban, Karim | Examining the Efficiency of Securities Ownership in the United States | The disastrous years following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 led to a series of reforms by President Roosevelt to stabilize the failing economy. The passing of the New Deal laws coupled with more recent laws passed by President Bush and President Obama have led to extensive regulation of the financ... | | 2019 |
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Dove-Swisher, Taylor | Bias-Coppected Estimation for singles-event studies | Single-firm event studies used in securities fraud litigation are prone to statistical bias. Brav and Heaton (2015) describe three potential issues: low statistical power to detect price impacts, confounding effects that cannot be averaged out, and an effect bias in the upward direction. The effect ... | | 2017 |
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Lyne, Conor | ISILl, INC. the Finance of Terror | Founded out of religious extremism, ISIL has established itself as a formidable terrorist organization through various forms of financial strength. This paper analyzes the ISIL's beginning as a radical ideology and the political turmoil it took advantage of to gain power throughout the Middle East. ... | | 2017 |
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Blake, Bennett J. | Art-secured lending and evaluating the loan-to-value ratio in art and real estate lending markets | I analyze the lending terms for loans with art as collateral. The standard loan-to-value (LTV) ratio offered by private banks is 50% of the value of a piece/collection, while for other tangible assets, such as real estate, LTV is often 80%. I use a linear regression model with common U.S. stock indi... | | 2023 |
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Pierce, Curtis | Technology Adoption as a Predictive Measure of Financial Performance | This study examines the connection between technology adoption and the financial performance of firms measured as daily stock returns. Using an event study methodology, I test the hypothesis that technology adoption is a statistically significant predictor of abnormal returns. Specifically, I analyz... | | 2017 |
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Kehr, David | Abnormal Stock Returns and Venture Capital Funding Event Study of Six Down Round Venture Capital Funding Announcement Dates | This paper analyzes the reaction of stock prices to the announcement of a round of financing raised by a venture capital-backed firm at a valuation lower than in a previous round. The event study is performed to analyze short-term stock price reactions prior to and following the announcement of a do... | | 2018 |
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Child, Christopher Davis | Professional estimation of value | Business valuation experts are often asked to provide litigation consulting for cases involving disputes between two or more interested parties where claimed damages are determined based on a total firm value. The judgment or settlement amounts in these cases are largely determined by the standards ... | Business - Valuation | 2012-05 |
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Kleinman, Megan | The green bond revolution: is it sustainable? | Green bonds, innovative financial instruments that have entered the bond market in recent years, have sparked a revolution for activists, investors, and issuers with their use of proceeds model. I examine corporate green bonds through historical research, investigation of the certification process, ... | | 2020 |
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Caine, Benjamin | Low Cost Carriers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects and Strategies | This paper assesses the economic opportunity for low-cost carriers (LCC) to successfully enter the sub-Saharan African (SSA) air transit market. To accomplish this, I address the future growth in passenger demand, the current state of African air travel infrastructure, and governmental barriers to s... | | 2019 |
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Carroll, Steven Michael | High-frequency trading: a survey of market impact | The May 6th "flash crash," the result of an overly large sell order in "e-mini" futures on the S&P 500 index, caused American share and future indices to drop approximately 10% in a matter of minutes, only to recover most of the loss by the end of the trading day. At the time, market volatility was ... | High-frequency trading; Financial market - United States | 2012-08 |
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Chau, Hy | The vix and its applications in the market | Since its first introduction in 1993, the Chicago Board Option Exchange's (CBOE's) Market Volatility Index, the VIX, has become more and more popular among traders and investors in the market. If used correctly, not only is the VIX able to provide traders with useful information to evaluate the mark... | Chicago Board Options Exchange.; Market Volatility Index; Hedge funds - United States - Management; Corporate finance | 2012-05 |
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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 |
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McNatt, Shannon D., | Do Family Demographics Explain Middles-Class Status? Utah VS United States | Using United States Census data from 1980 to 2010, I analyze the role demographics play in a family attaining middle/upper-class status versus being economically lower-class. My study looks at age, race, education, parental structure, and family size, the influence each has on a family's status, and... | | 2019 |
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Hughes, Emma | The implications of carbon abatement for industrial composition and firm value | Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) serve as a representation of the costs or savings associated with various actions aimed at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions. This thesis investigates whether investors could have earned abnormal stock returns by constructing portfolios that exploit diff... | | 2023 |
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Nazarenko, Elena | Current and future financial wellbeing of old age Russian pensioners | This paper compares pensioners' income with cost of living and subsistence minimum level to gauge financial wellbeing of pensioners. Using data from Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey (RLMS-HSE), I formally test whether pensioners' income covers the cost of living across five regions: Moscow, Sai... | Old age pensions -- Russia; Retirees -- Russia -- Economic conditions | 2015-03 |
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Stevens, Fergus D. | Human-Algorithm Interactions with Fundamental and Predatory Trading Robots | Algorithmic participation in financial markets has been a growing phenomenon since the early 1990s. This paper uses experimental data and simulations to analyze the interaction between humans and trading algorithms. Interactions between humans and algorithms are observed through laboratory sessions ... | | 2020 |
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Foote, Charles R. | Measuring an ideas-based economy: an assessment of total factor productivity | This study presents a new empirical assessment of the ability of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) to measure the effects of innovation in aggregate and across different industries. Typically, TFP is estimated as a scale parameter of a production function fit to output and input data from industries o... | Industrial productivity; Total factor productivity | 2015-04 |