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Jeffs, Anthony | Priniting Money to Combat a Changing Climate | In 2015, Combes, et al. produced an empirical paper on the tradeoffs for developing countries in substituting revenues from deforestation with those from seigniorage, revenues obtained from the printing of money. The importance of this study was to equip policy makers with the ability to mitigate de... | | 2020 |
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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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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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Hunter, Jessie Rabe | Effects of British Columbia's Carbon Tax on CO2 Emissions and Net Gasoline Sales | In 2008, British Columbia implemented the first comprehensive carbon tax in North America which covers nearly three quarters of all emitters in the province. This paper analyzes the effects of British Columbia's carbon tax on CO2 emissions and net gasoline sales using differences-in-differences and ... | | 2020 |
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Kleinman, Rachel | The rise of the big three: are institutional investors proactive environmental and social change agents? | | | 2022 |
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Carpenter, McKenna | The anticorruption efficacy of the sarbanes-oxley act: examining the impact on fraud, independence, and turnover | This paper investigates the effect of the anticorruption 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on corporate governance characteristics like board independence and, by extension, on executive turnover and other corporate reactions to fraud. Specifically, I compare fraud cases pre- and post-SOX--controlling f... | | 2022 |
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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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Astrid Ji | Effective portfolio diversification strategies in variouse economic conditions | This thesis examines the effectiveness of portfolio diversification strategies in inflationary periods by analyzing the performance of various portfolios in economic conditions before, during, and after inflationary periods. By analyzing historical data to a variety of 10 asset classes, this study p... | | 2023 |
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Kargi, Sahana | How the distribution of a society's prior beliefs affects the virality of information | Information diffusion is the process by which a piece of information disperses through a network. Whether it be computer viruses spreading via the internet or diseases transmitting through a school, understanding how information diffuses is extremely relevant to fields such as marketing, emergency m... | | 2023 |
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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 |