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Managing an early modern giant : issues and initiatives at the Dutch East India Company / Wim Van Lent ; sous la direction de Stoyan Sgourev
(2014)
The recent financial crisis has reinvigorated an academic interest in the precepts upon which rational economic behavior is based. Answering to the need for a better understanding of capitalism s fundaments, this dissertation ...
Determinants and consequences of internal audit function quality / Like Jiang ; sous la direction de Paul André
(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. ...
Identity in the political economy of institutions : taxation, group conflict and the perception of democracy / Chee Meng Tan ; André Fourçans, Supervisor.
(2015)
This dissertation, Identity in the Political Economy of Institutions: Taxation, Group Conflict and the Perception of Democracy, contains three essays that study the impact of the economics of identity on taxation, social ...
Modeling complex decision processes / Prithwiraj Mukherjee ; sous la direction de Arnaud De Bruyn
(2014)
This thesis contains three essays dealing with the modeling of complex decision processes in marketing. Each of these deals with a different aspect of complex decision making, either at the individual or at the network ...
The diffusion of Internet use across China : spatiotemporal models with policy implications / Li Zheng ; Albert Bemmaor, Supervisor.
(2014)
Although spatiotemporal models have been developed to capture the diffusion of new offerings in space and time, these efforts can hardly be used to assess the potential impact of policy decisions due to (i) their relatively ...
From animosity to affinity : institutional complexity and resource dependence in cross sector partnerships / Alireza Ahmadsimab ; sous la direction de C. Gilles Van Wijk
(2015)
This dissertation investigates how organizations reconcile different institutional logics in the development of cross sector partnerships. It is based on longitudinal data from three cases of partnership between firms and ...
Asset prices and priceless assets / Julien Penasse ; Gabriel Desgranges, Co-Supervisor ; Guillaume Chevillon, Examiner
(2014)
Understanding asset prices fluctuations is a central issue in financial economics. In a rational, no-bubble model, the present-value identity links the dividend-price ratio to future cash flows and future discount rates. ...
Three essays on the monitoring role of financial analysts / Zhongwei Huang ; sous la direction de Thomas Jeanjean
(2015)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that present three standalone essays on the monitoring role of financial analysts. Chapter 1 investigates the monitoring role of financial analysts in the financial reporting ...
Risk management in sustainable fleet replacement using conditional value at risk / Amir Hossein Ansaripoor ; sous la direction de Fernando Oliveira
(2014)
The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an analysis of how the fleet replacement problem can be addressed from both sustainability and risk management perspectives, simultaneously. The contribution of this thesis has two ...
Three essays on international finance and international trade / Sainan Huang ; Cristina Terra, Supervisor.
(2014)
This thesis is comprised of three chapters. Each chapter corresponds to an article in the field of international finance and international trade. Chapter One: An Empirical Analysis of Real Exchange Rate Election Cycle: ...