DSpace at My University: Recent submissions
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(2015)Attention is a scarce resource. This study investigates the problem of the limited consumer's attention span and its impact on Internet advertising markets. For this, I explore Korean search engine market and present a ...
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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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(2014)The consumption of live music during concerts can have dire consequences for individuals and society alike. This dissertation explores consumers motivations to expose themselves to extreme sound levels. Focusing on metal ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(2014)This dissertation is organized in three chapters. Each chapter analyzes decision makers systematic deviations from economic predictions in well-known experiments. People deviate from the optimal path and excessively explore ...
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(2014)This dissertation is organized in three chapters. Each chapter contains a paper around the topic of relational identification. The first paper suggests and discusses a conceptual model in which identification motives -as ...
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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 ...
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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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(2014)This dissertation focuses on the development of a powerful idea in transnational space referred to here as a world myth and demonstrates the effect of this myth on contemporary organizational structures and discourses. ...
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(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 ...
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(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: ...
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(2011)This dissertation explores how organizations cope with multiple and heterogeneous institutions, a situation recently referred to as institutional complexity . It is based on the study of French Business Schools, known as ...
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(2011)This dissertation explores the mechanisms of global information systems (IS) diffusion and adoption of a French multinational corporation (MNC) within Chinese settings. By using an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system ...
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(2013)The following three chapters investigate: 1) whether Southeast Asian real exchange rates are nonlinear mean reverting, 2) bayesian inference on nonlinear time series model with applications in real exchange rate, and ...
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(2013)The introduction of the Euro currency in 1999 represented a major event for the European economies. The 2007 financial crisis and the subsequent 2010 sovereign debt crisis have led to question the sustainability of the ...
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(2013)This paper uses a search model with the product differentiation in a two-sided market. The two-sided market matches sellers with buyers. On the buyers' side it supplies some match information between the goods and the ...
