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Does CEO tenure influence corporate bond rating properties?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This study examines whether and how corporate bond rating quality varies with CEO tenure. Due to the expansive roles of credit ratings in capital market, managers have incentives to maintain or improve their ratings. ... -
Firm transparency and innovation: international evidence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Transparency can provide financing benefits to innovation by reducing financial frictions, and it can also entail proprietary costs by revealing information to competitors. Using a large sample of firms from 29 countries, ... -
Three essays on inside debt
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This dissertation is composed of three essays examining inside debt. The first essay tests the impact of inside debt on security issuance decisions. I find that CEOs with high debt incentives are more likely to issue equity ... -
Some characteristics and environmental sensitivities of taxpayers taking the United States political contribution tax credit during 1979-1982
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1988)This study was designed to determine characteristics of taxpayers taking the political contribution tax credit from 1979 to 1982. This work is similar to studies on the effectiveness of tax incentives in promoting positive ... -
Friends in High Places : Two Essays on the Importance of Corporate Political Connections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This study is an examination of the relationship between political connections and the undertaking of major firm events. In our first essay, presented in Chapter 3, we examine the impact politically connected appointments ... -
Insidious role of complacency in business-to-business relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This research draws on resource-based theory and heuristic versus systematic processing model and examines the effects of intentional and unintentional negative behaviors on performance of exchange relationships. Intentional ... -
Four essays in empirical corporate finance and financial markets : social captial, corporate risk-taking, external financing, and financial market development
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Coping with work-family conflict: an examination of work-family help-seeking behavior in both organizational and relational contexts
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City Location and Sell-Side Analyst Research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)I find that analysts' earnings forecasts are more accurate and the stock market reaction to analyst reports is stronger when the analyst is located in a city with higher human capital. Human capital is proxied for as the ... -
Two essays in analyzing delegated portfolio management relationships through relative portfolio measures
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)In my first essay, I demonstrate how the Cremers and Petajisto (2009) Active Share measure can be re-parameterized into the standard portfolio parameters we typically see in other portfolio management studies, namely betas ... -
Bridging the cultural divide : the role of foreign directors in cross-border mergers
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)This study examines the influence of foreign directors on the advising role of corporate boards. I use cross-border mergers as a test of the ability of foreign directors to provide effective strategic advising. Social ... -
The influence of client importance and country-level institutions on auditor behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This study investigates how client importance and country-level institutions affect auditor behavior and is motivated by the introduction of fee dependence laws in countries outside the US. While auditors form a strong ... -
Indirect bonding :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)I propose that firms have incentives to respond to their rivals' cross-listings, thereby generating a spillover effect from the cross-listing. The existence of a spillover is an indirect effect of cross-listing and is ... -
Competitive learning and joint learning in international joint venture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)As is the case in most normal independent organizations, international joint ventures (IJVs) are expected to be influenced by both stabilizing and destabilizing forces. This research emphasizes that inter-partner learning ... -
Do industry specialist auditors enforce more conservative recognition of long-lived asset impairments?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Prior research suggests that managers exhibit strong incentives to hide losses and use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. In this study, I focus on impairments of long-lived assets, which require implementation of ... -
Perceived progress, affect, and intensity : the role of approach-avoidance temperament and optimism in job search
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Job search is a self-regulated process during which job seekers evaluate the extent to which they are making progress toward finding a job. The purpose of this study was to better understand whether and how job seekers ... -
The interplay of legitimacy gains and technical gains in the adoption of social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The benefits of adopting new practices vary: some provide technical efficiency and some are institutions and bestow legitimacy to adopting firms. These distinct benefits have been treated in isolation in the literature, ... -
Social insecurity and the role of possessions: buying friends or replacing them?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation extends the literatures on coping and social anxiety by suggesting that people cope with social threats not just by directly trying to create (and restore) social relationships, but also by indirectly ... -
Auditor offices and the comparability and quality of client's earnings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study examines the role of the local auditor office in the comparability and quality of their clients' earnings. I construct of sample of firm-pairs in which each observation consists of two firms in the same ... -
Illiquidity spillover: the cross-market impact of firm level illiquidity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study is an examination of the cross-market relations of illiquidity at the firm level. In the first part of the study I explore the cross-market pricing implications of the illiquidity of a firm's stocks and bonds. ...