This thesis develops an economic analysis of securities fraud. The thesis consists of a theory essay and an empirical essay. In the theory essay, I analyze a firm's propensity to commit securities fraud and the real consequences of fraud. I show that fraud can lead to investment distortions. I...

In deformation based morphometry (DBM) group-wise differences in brain structure are measuredusing deformable registration and some form of statistical test. However, it is known that DBMresults are sensitive to both the registration method and statistical test used. Given the lack of...

In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as \sequence of search".A key feature of this paper which...