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Three essays on financial contracting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In these essays, I examine the characteristics of financial contracts around Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In the first essay, I document significant changes ...
Early-stage social ventures : resource acquisition, CEO selection, and impact investors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
In this dissertation, I explore early-stage social ventures' resource acquisition, the first CEO selection, as well as how funding foundations supporting early-stage social ventures overcome challenges emerge from the ...
Three essays on corporate-political relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study examines the effect of corporate-political relationships on corporate decision making, performance, and value. In the first essay, presented in Chapter 3, I examine whether defendant firms use their political ...
Four essays in empirical corporate finance and financial markets : social captial, corporate risk-taking, external financing, and financial market development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)