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Does corporate philanthropy matter in corporate reporting ? Evidence from firms' tax strategies, disclosures and audit outcomes
(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) ...
Four essays on allocation problems in supply chain management
(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 operations. ...
On Inequality of Opportunity : The Case of India
(2019)
The thesis consists of three empirical chapters on the extent of inequality of opportunity in India using data from the National Sample Survey. Inequality of opportunity is
conceptualized as the unequal distribution in ...
Behavioral studies on individual and group decisions in supply chain planning
(2019)
In this dissertation, I study the sales and operations planning (S&OP), a cross-functional integration process in supply chain planning whose goal is to align a firm’s demand plan. In Chapters 2 and 3, I analyze group or ...
Multi-level networks ad organizational outcomes in the sienese context : three essays
(2018)
Overall, the aim of all essays is, in different forms, to study mechanisms whereby
individual cognition is affected and constrained by relational networks, represents them, and
in turn affects which portions of them is ...
Financial markets, political variables and extreme events
(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 ...
Dynamic modeling in sustainable operations and supply chain management
(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.
Three essays of labor market frictions, international trade, and uncertaintly
(2018)
A recent and growing literature investigates the consequences of such heterogeneity in labor market institutions, studying how labor market rigidities a ect the causes and consequences of policy changes, such as trade ...