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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Bankruptcy, Rajib Chowdhury

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Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation, Son T. Dang

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias, Zhaohui Li

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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

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Bitcoin Price and Volume, Mohammad Bayani Khaknejad

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention, Investor Sentiment, and Earnings Pricing, Qiuye Cai

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Characteristics and Corporate Decisions, Trung Nguyen

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effects of Organization Capital on Firm Behavior, Andrew Root

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment, Sonik Mandal

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Forced CEO Turnover During Envy Merger Waves, and Dividends, Bader Almuhtadi

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Mutual Funds, Fund Management Skills, and Investor Sentiment, Feng Dong

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Dissertation: Essays on the El Niño Anomaly and Stock Return Predictability, Zhijun Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Inside Debt Holding in Relation to Firm Payout Policy and Financial Reporting, Asligul Erkan

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Shareholder Base, Firm Behavior, and Firm Value, Yi Jian

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Dissertation: Essays on the Equity Risk Premium, Mohamed Mehdi Rahoui

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Emotions and Their Effects in Financial Markets, Jiancheng Shen

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Short Selling, Zhaobo Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Dividend Policy, Mehmet Deren Caliskan

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Managerial Horizon, Cash Holdings and Earnings Management, Sanjib Guha

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Dissertation: Essays on International Risk-Return Trade-Off Relations, Liang Meng

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Attention and Asset Pricing, Nadia Asmaa Nafar

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: From Both a National and Firm Level Perspective, Ryan Lawrence Mason

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Dissertation: International Banking sector Linkages: Did the Global Financial Crisis Strengthen or Weaken the Linkages?, James Edward Benton

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Corporate Liquidity, Financial Crisis, and Real Estate, Kimberly Fowler Luchtenberg

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Dissertation: The Response of Commercial Banks to Credit Stimuli, Denise Williams Streeter

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Reverse Mergers and Bond ETF Mispricing, Charles William Duval

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Executive Pay and Firm Performance, Thuong Quang Nguyen

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Behavioral Finance, Quang Viet Vu

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Individual Currency Traders, Boris Sebastian Abbey

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Dissertation: Cross-listing Premium or Market Timing, Moustafa M. Abu El Fadl

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Dissertation: The Behavior and Choices of Serial Bidders in M&A Transactions: A Prospect Theory Approach, Ahmed Essam El-Din El-Bakry

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Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Stock Market, Ajay Kongera

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Dissertation: Analyst Following, Capital Market Pressure, and Real Activity Manipulation, Melanie Maureen Rose

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Dissertation: What Drives U.S. Banking Mergers: Misvaluation, Gambling or Envy?, Wenjia Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Cross-Listing, Liu Wang

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Dissertation: A Re-Examination of Stock Repurchase in USA, Hua Yang

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Investor Sentiment and the Profitability of Contrarian and Momentum Strategies, Changmei Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Dissertation: Product Market Competition and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Yen-Chih Liu

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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

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Dissertation: Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds, Hung Duong

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Dissertation: Essays on Momentum, Autoregressive Returns, and Conditional Volatility: Evidence From the Saudi Stock Market, Abdullah Alsubaie

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Dissertation: Costly Arbitrage and the Lead-Lag Structure Between Value and Glamour Stocks, Meng Li

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Corporate Spin-Offs, YingChou Lin

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Dissertation: Ex Post Valuation Correction and Motives of Merger and Acquisition Decisions, Hien T. Nguyen

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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

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Dissertation: Two Essays on IPO Earnings Management, Yong Sun

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Dissertation: Two Essays on Lead-Lag Patterns Between Trading Volume and Stock Return in China Stock Markets, Xiaotian Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Dissertation: Overreaction, Seasonality and Relationship Among Middle East and North Africa National Stock Markets, Yaser A. Al-Kulaib

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Dissertation: The Effects of Local and Global Risk Factors on Industry Stock Returns: Across Country Analysis, Mahdy Farag Elhossiny

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Dissertation: Essays on Currency Risk Management, Nehad Elsawaf

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Dissertation: Operating Measures, IPO Valuation, and After Market Performance-Perspective From Internet Bubble Period, Yuhong Fan

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Dissertation: Valuation Effects of Earnings Restatements Due to Accounting Irregularities, Tan Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Dissertation: Three Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Yan Lin

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Dissertation: Overreaction, Heteroscedasticity, and Spillovers in Stock Returns: Evidence From the Kuwait Stock Exchange, Mohammad Yousef Al-Hashel

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Dissertation: Market Valuation of Corporate Diversification in the Presence of Internal Capital Markets in Emerging Countries, Supannee Buasook

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Dissertation: Corporate Diversification and Stock Returns, Tatiana Isakovski

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Dissertation: Institutional Investors and ADRs: Three Essays, Deqing Li

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Dissertation: Investigating the Effect of the International Stock Indexes on the United States Stock Index Futures, Zehlha Illhan Ertuna

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Dissertation: Corporate Investment Activity, Industrial and Global Diversification and Internal Capital Markets, Ozgur Berk Kan

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Dissertation: The Long-Term Performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): Venture Capitalists, Reputation of Investment Bankers, and Corporate Structure, Halit Gonenc

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Dissertation: Regulation S: Offshore Equity Offerings, Marla Sue Howard

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Dissertation: Market Reaction to Seasoned Equity Offerings: The Relevance of Leverage, Growth Opportunities, and Corporate Structure, Mojib U. Ahmed

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Dissertation: Three Essays on European Union Advances Toward a Single Currency and Its Implications for Business and Investors, Charlotte Anne Bond

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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

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Dissertation: The Pricing Behaviors of Stock Index Futures: Some Preliminary Evidence in the Korean Market, Jaehoon Min

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Dissertation: Volatility Risk Premiums in Futures Markets: Investment Prices and Commercial Bank Performance, Richard P. Gregory

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Dissertation: The Valuation Effects of Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence From Domestic and Foreign Plant Announcements, Bum Suk Kim

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Dissertation: The Corporate Effects of R&D and Patent-Grants: Evidence From Intra-Industry Analysis, Steven Alan Lifland

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Dissertation: Non-United States Firms' Exchange Rate Exposure and the Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in Foreign Stock Markets, Patricia Hill Hamlin Hall

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Dissertation: New Paradigms for Evaluating Performance and Performance Persistency of Domestic and Globally Diversified Portfolios, Larry Joseph Prather

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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Dissertation: Taxes and Dividend Policies: An International Study, Chinwe Edna Nweke