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(2015)I develop a new input-based measure of internal audit function (IAF) quality and investigate the factors that incentivize firms to establish a high-quality IAF as well as the economic consequences of a high-quality IAF. ...
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(2018)This dissertation consists of three stand-alone papers that investigate three consequences of corporate philanthropy, namely: (1) firms’ tax strategies, (2) firms’ reporting with regard to corporate philanthropy, and (3) ...
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(2018)The three essays in this thesis, in general, explore different dimensions of fexibility to better manage the operations in firms/supply chains for higher economic and environmental performance.
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(2020)This dissertation assesses the economic value of volatility for traditional and crypto-asset markets. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the blockchain technology and the cross-section of crypto-assets. Chapter 2 ...
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(2023)This thesis studies the causes and consequences of gender norms. The first chapter examines the interplay between marriage and gender norms. Marriage, as a mechanism of horizontal and oblique social learning and as a ...
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(2020)This dissertation considers strategic behavior of information intermediaries. In the first chapter I study the strategic behavior of ad-financed platforms. Firms compete for slots on an ad-financed platform by paying the ...
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(2020)The purpose of this dissertation was to examine challenging job experiences (CJE) and their role in facilitating the process of leadership development. In the first essay of the dissertation, I provided an overview and ...
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(2015)The thesis consists of three innovative studies of microfinance. It addresses issues regarding loan products design, credit risk assessment, and strategic planning of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The objective of the ...
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(2019)I study the causes and consequences of the decision of active US equity mutual funds to close to new investors. I start by analyzing results of the prior literature, which has focused on performance before and after closure ...
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(2018)Investment manager skill is one of the most researched topics in finance, so readers may wonder why there are still theses such as this one which launches three new Essays on the topic. There are two parts to the answer. ...
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(2014)This dissertation explores the efforts of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to produce a common set of accounting standards accepted for worldwide ...
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(2020)This work aims at investigating the optimization opportunities among several typical service industries where the digital revolution occurs. We made a few contributions in the intersection of business analytics and ...
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(2016)Proactive work behaviors are known as self-started and forward-thinking action that constructively challenges the status quo, being capable of positively impacting organizational outcomes. Current measurement, however, ...
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(2016)This dissertation investigates how organizations (specifically social enterprises) create and implement information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects for the people at the bottom of the pyramid ...
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(2017)This thesis investigates the dynamics of financial markets from different perspectives. First, we analyze the impact of different political variables on market prices. We show that the quality of economic policy and the ...
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(2018)We address three different allocation problems for which the literature tends to ignore the complex nature of their objective. The problems under study fall under two different contexts of non-profit and commercial ...
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(2016)This thesis consists of four essays on finance and the real economy. Chapter 1 studies the effect of banking crises on the composition of investment. It builds a partial equilibrium growth model with a banking sector and ...
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(2014)Novel heuristic algorithms were developed for data mining methods employing tree or network graphical structures. A heuristic algorithm was proposed to boost the predictive accuracy of the well-known tree structure data ...