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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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Seymour, Bayley | The Effects of Recent Changes in Grocery Sales Tax by State Governments | The issue of whether grocery items should be subject to sales tax has been hotly debated, especially in the last several decades. As of the time of writing, only thirteen U.S. states out of fifty implement a statewide level of grocery sales tax at all. Of those that do, six tax groceries at a reduce... | 2018 | |
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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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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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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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Kleinman, Rachel | The rise of the big three: are institutional investors proactive environmental and social change agents? | 2022 | ||
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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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Savage, Erica | Total Factor Productivity in the Construction Industry | Conventional wisdom asserts productivity growth within the construction industry has been in decline for decades in comparison to other US industries. If productivity is indeed low, there is an enormous opportunity for construction firms to create value. The purpose of this study is to test the conv... | 2018 | |
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Green, Philip | US venture capital and the effects of diversification | This paper is a discussion of the effects of diversification in venture capital (VC) portfolios. The venture capital structure is formed by three components: the firm, a fund (or funds), and portfolio companies within each fund. One single firm can have simultaneous active funds, which typically las... | Diversification in industry; Venture Capitalism | 2012-05 |
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Warner, Travis John | Using Term Spreads to Predict Recessions: a Comparison | Recessions have been a concern for government and business leaders and the populace in general for hundreds of years. From the Tulipmania in 1634 to the Great Depression in the 1930's to the Dot Com bubble to the Great Recession in 2007 they have all instilled fear and anxiety in the populace becaus... | 2017 |