The following theses and dissertations were awarded in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy, Rajib Chowdhury
Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation, Son T. Dang
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias, Zhaohui Li
Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Overconfidence in Relation to Speed of Adjustment of Firm Financial Policy and CEO Inside Debt, Xiang Long
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Two Essays on Bitcoin Price and Volume, Mohammad Bayani Khaknejad
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention, Investor Sentiment, and Earnings Pricing, Qiuye Cai
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Decisions, Trung Nguyen
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of Organization Capital on Firm Behavior, Andrew Root
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment, Sonik Mandal
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: Two Essays on Forced CEO Turnover During Envy Merger Waves, and Dividends, Bader Almuhtadi
Dissertation: Three Essays on Mutual Funds, Fund Management Skills, and Investor Sentiment, Feng Dong
Dissertation: Essays on the El Niño Anomaly and Stock Return Predictability, Zhijun Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Inside Debt Holding in Relation to Firm Payout Policy and Financial Reporting, Asligul Erkan
Dissertation: Two Essays on Shareholder Base, Firm Behavior, and Firm Value, Yi Jian
Dissertation: Essays on the Equity Risk Premium, Mohamed Mehdi Rahoui
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Emotions and Their Effects in Financial Markets, Jiancheng Shen
Dissertation: Two Essays on Short Selling, Zhaobo Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Three Essays on Dividend Policy, Mehmet Deren Caliskan
Dissertation: Two Essays on Managerial Horizon, Cash Holdings and Earnings Management, Sanjib Guha
Dissertation: Essays on International Risk-Return Trade-Off Relations, Liang Meng
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing, Nadia Asmaa Nafar
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Two Essays on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: From Both a National and Firm Level Perspective, Ryan Lawrence Mason
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: International Banking sector Linkages: Did the Global Financial Crisis Strengthen or Weaken the Linkages?, James Edward Benton
Dissertation: Three Essays on Corporate Liquidity, Financial Crisis, and Real Estate, Kimberly Fowler Luchtenberg
Dissertation: The Response of Commercial Banks to Credit Stimuli, Denise Williams Streeter
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Reverse Mergers and Bond ETF Mispricing, Charles William Duval
Dissertation: Two Essays on Executive Pay and Firm Performance, Thuong Quang Nguyen
Dissertation: Two Essays on Behavioral Finance, Quang Viet Vu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Three Essays on Individual Currency Traders, Boris Sebastian Abbey
Dissertation: Cross-listing Premium or Market Timing, Moustafa M. Abu El Fadl
Dissertation: The Behavior and Choices of Serial Bidders in M&A Transactions: A Prospect Theory Approach, Ahmed Essam El-Din El-Bakry
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Stock Market, Ajay Kongera
Dissertation: Analyst Following, Capital Market Pressure, and Real Activity Manipulation, Melanie Maureen Rose
Dissertation: What Drives U.S. Banking Mergers: Misvaluation, Gambling or Envy?, Wenjia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: Three Essays on Cross-Listing, Liu Wang
Dissertation: A Re-Examination of Stock Repurchase in USA, Hua Yang
Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment and the Profitability of Contrarian and Momentum Strategies, Changmei Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dissertation: Product Market Competition and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Yen-Chih Liu
Dissertation: Two Essays on Earnings Quality and Corporate Decisions, Qian Sun
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Corporate Payout Behavior of Japanese and European Firms, Rahnuma Binte Ahsan
Dissertation: Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds, Hung Duong
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: Essays on Momentum, Autoregressive Returns, and Conditional Volatility: Evidence From the Saudi Stock Market, Abdullah Alsubaie
Dissertation: Costly Arbitrage and the Lead-Lag Structure Between Value and Glamour Stocks, Meng Li
Dissertation: Two Essays on Corporate Spin-Offs, YingChou Lin
Dissertation: Ex Post Valuation Correction and Motives of Merger and Acquisition Decisions, Hien T. Nguyen
Dissertation: The Effect of Survey-Based Sentiment Measures on the Predictability and Volatility of Stock Returns Conditioned on the Payout Yield and Issue Yield, Darryl Philip Samsell
Dissertation: Two Essays on IPO Earnings Management, Yong Sun
Dissertation: Two Essays on Lead-Lag Patterns Between Trading Volume and Stock Return in China Stock Markets, Xiaotian Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Dissertation: Overreaction, Seasonality and Relationship Among Middle East and North Africa National Stock Markets, Yaser A. Al-Kulaib
Dissertation: The Effects of Local and Global Risk Factors on Industry Stock Returns: Across Country Analysis, Mahdy Farag Elhossiny
Dissertation: Essays on Currency Risk Management, Nehad Elsawaf
Dissertation: Operating Measures, IPO Valuation, and After Market Performance-Perspective From Internet Bubble Period, Yuhong Fan
Dissertation: Valuation Effects of Earnings Restatements Due to Accounting Irregularities, Tan Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Dissertation: Three Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Yan Lin
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Dissertation: Overreaction, Heteroscedasticity, and Spillovers in Stock Returns: Evidence From the Kuwait Stock Exchange, Mohammad Yousef Al-Hashel
Dissertation: Market Valuation of Corporate Diversification in the Presence of Internal Capital Markets in Emerging Countries, Supannee Buasook
Dissertation: Corporate Diversification and Stock Returns, Tatiana Isakovski
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Dissertation: Institutional Investors and ADRs: Three Essays, Deqing Li
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Investigating the Effect of the International Stock Indexes on the United States Stock Index Futures, Zehlha Illhan Ertuna
Dissertation: Corporate Investment Activity, Industrial and Global Diversification and Internal Capital Markets, Ozgur Berk Kan
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Dissertation: The Long-Term Performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): Venture Capitalists, Reputation of Investment Bankers, and Corporate Structure, Halit Gonenc
Dissertation: Regulation S: Offshore Equity Offerings, Marla Sue Howard
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Dissertation: Market Reaction to Seasoned Equity Offerings: The Relevance of Leverage, Growth Opportunities, and Corporate Structure, Mojib U. Ahmed
Dissertation: Three Essays on European Union Advances Toward a Single Currency and Its Implications for Business and Investors, Charlotte Anne Bond
Dissertation: Essay I. Intra-Industry Contagion and Competitive Effects Associated With Corporate Liquidation Announcements: Does Shareholder Governance Influence the Results? Essay II. Investors' Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in U. S. Firms That File for Bankruptcy, J. Terry Ray
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Dissertation: The Pricing Behaviors of Stock Index Futures: Some Preliminary Evidence in the Korean Market, Jaehoon Min
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Dissertation: Volatility Risk Premiums in Futures Markets: Investment Prices and Commercial Bank Performance, Richard P. Gregory
Dissertation: The Valuation Effects of Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence From Domestic and Foreign Plant Announcements, Bum Suk Kim
Dissertation: The Corporate Effects of R&D and Patent-Grants: Evidence From Intra-Industry Analysis, Steven Alan Lifland
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: Non-United States Firms' Exchange Rate Exposure and the Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in Foreign Stock Markets, Patricia Hill Hamlin Hall
Dissertation: New Paradigms for Evaluating Performance and Performance Persistency of Domestic and Globally Diversified Portfolios, Larry Joseph Prather
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Dissertation: Taxes and Dividend Policies: An International Study, Chinwe Edna Nweke