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11.432J / 15.427J Real Estate Finance & Investments II: Macro-Level Analysis & Advanced Topics, Spring 2003

Geltner, David; Mcgrath, William Tod - 2003

presents some of the major concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools useful for making investment and finance … estate terminology presented in the earlier course if they are not already familiar with basic real estate finance and …

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Bankruptcy and transaction costs in general financial models

Hoelle, Matthew - 2010

General financial models have become workhorse models in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. These models have … and finance is the well accepted fact that models with a representative agent and without financial frictions yield … fields of macroeconomics and finance in the future depends upon the frontier research in general equilibrium today. Over the …

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Entrepreneurial activity in markets with imperfections

Silveira, Rafael - 2007

This dissertation consists of three essays concerning entrepreneurship, venture capital and monetary economics. It takes time for a venture capitalist to find a project in which to invest, to implement projects and to cash out. Further, capitalists and entrepreneurs are uncertain about whom they...

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Essays on corporate finance and financial institutions

Yan, Jinghua - 2007

The dissertation consists of four chapters. The first chapter presents a model that incorporates product market competition into the standard neoclassical framework. The model explains why value-maximizing firms conduct mergers that appear to lower shareholder value. In a Cournot setting, the...

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The relation between voluntary disclosure and financial reporting: Evidence from synthetic leases

Zechman, Sarah L Center - 2008

Managers must often trade off cash flow objectives with concerns about financial reporting when they structure economic activities. I examine whether managers consider voluntary disclosure, combined with the structuring decision, to alter this tradeoff by enhancing the transparency or...

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Essays in 401(k) portfolio choice and trading behavior

Tang, Ning - 2010

The first chapter assesses the efficiency and performance of 401(k) investment options offered by a large group of US employers. We show that the majority of plans is efficient compared to market benchmark indexes. Three performance measures underscore the fact that these plans tend to offer a...

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Essays in discrete time asset pricing

Polimenis, Vassilis - 2001

Most discrete time literature uses the beta that results from a regression of an asset's simple returns on various factors to quantify risk. The departing point for this thesis is the consistent use of log-returns. When log-returns are considered, the relevant measure of systematic risk becomes...

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Essays in dynamic corporate finance

Michaux, Michael - 2010

, firms finance investments using defaultable debt as well as equity issuance, and they are subject to standard profitability …

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Oil Prices and Long-Run Risk

READY, ROBERT - 2011

I show that relative levels of aggregate consumption and personal oil consumption provide anexcellent proxy for oil prices, and that high oil prices predict low future aggregate consumptiongrowth. Motivated by these facts, I add an oil consumption good to the long-run risk model of Bansal and...

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EQUITY ISSUANCE AND RETURNS TO DISTRESSED FIRMS

Park, James L. - 2011

This dissertation documents the positive relationship between financial distress and equity issuance and shows that dilution explains the low stock returns of distressed firms. When the cross-section of firms is sorted by degree of distress, the value-weighted mean of the monthly net issuance...

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