The following theses and dissertations were awarded in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.

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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