Similar Search Results

Applications of financial hedging in the hospitality and tourism industry

Tang, Chun-Hung - 2008

This dissertation consists of three studies of the applications of financial hedging in the hospitality and tourism industry. In the first study presented in chapter 2, the author proposes a novel approach to mitigate the cash flow volatility arising from snowfall fluctuation in ski resorts:...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430596

Essays on Venture Capital Syndication and the Informational Efficiency of the Corporate Bond Market

Moser, Shane - 2010

The first two essays in this dissertation examine the phenomenon of venture capital syndication, or co-investment. In the first essay, I construct measures of syndicate heterogeneity and find that when venture capital firms from different geographic regions syndicate their investments, this has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430896

Essays in International Finance

Rantala, Hilla - 2008

The two essays in this dissertation are concerned with investors' decision making in the global environment. Finance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430900

Furthering the role of corporate finance in economic growth

Kamiryo, Hideyuki - 2004

My research question is: Why do countries with similar rates of saving differ in economic growth? My thesis addresses this question by formulating an endogenous growth model using the Cobb-Douglas production function. My model disaggregates the rate of saving into the retention ratio and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431019

The economic determinants of the time series properties of earnings, sales, and cash flows from operations

Krippel, Gregory Lee

An objective of both economic structural and accounting time-series literature has been to understand the economic factors driving the systematic properties of corporate earnings. The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: (1) to help explain why these research areas are unable to find the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431340

Earnings expectations and the market reaction to earnings surprise

Alexander, John C.

This dissertation provides an investigation of the earnings surprise associated with the quarterly earnings announcement. The examination of a wide variety of forecast models allows insight into the ability of these models to capture the earnings expectations of the market.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431341

An investigation of the availability, distribution, and usability of the comprehensive annual financial reports of United States cities.

Hall, Douglas Roger - Florida Atlantic University

public, being beyond all but specially trained accountants and finance professionals. …The study methodology has three parts: a descriptive analysis of sample documents; a survey of finance directors …. The CAFR model needs to be simplified, organized better, and common language used. GASB, the Government Finance Officers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431370

Controlling the agency costs of insider trading and the role of insider trading in correcting overreactions: Two essays

Cox, Don R

Two different aspects of insider trading are explored in two separate essays.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431372

The cross-sectional effects of option listing on firm stock return variances: Differential impacts on the bid-ask spread, return autocorrelations, and intrinsic variances

Niendorf, Bruce David

This dissertation focuses on the cross-sectional effects of option listing on the return variance of the underlying securities and makes two primary contributions. First, unlike previous literature, this dissertation develops a set of hypotheses to explain cross-sectional differences in variance...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431373

The predictability of small firm stock returns and variances: An artifact of market microstructure or evidence of information transfer?

Richardson, Terry Lynn

This dissertation offers and tests a theory regarding the source of asymmetric cross-correlation in size-based portfolio returns and variances. This 'information transfer' theory states that large firm portfolio returns may 'lead' those of small firm portfolios because large firm stock prices...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431380