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Process Information And Creative Mindsets: An Examination Of Their Role In The Evaluation Of Creativity, Brendon Michael Cummiskey
Process Information And Creative Mindsets: An Examination Of Their Role In The Evaluation Of Creativity, Brendon Michael Cummiskey
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Evaluating creativity is a key role for any organization interested in innovation and how that evaluation occurs has been a focal point of researchers. Although creativity scholars have made strides in understanding creativity evaluations, questions remain about the role that process information plays in the evaluation. While most creativity research involves some type of outcome, such as an idea or product, the evaluators often have no description of the creator’s work process or any understanding of the idea or product’s creation. In this dissertation, I build upon the existing evaluation literature and critically examine how process information may influence the …
Essays In Empirical Asset Pricing, Landon James Ross
Essays In Empirical Asset Pricing, Landon James Ross
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines several empirical questions regarding the determiniation of asset prices. The first chapter studies the effect of firm characteristics’ interactions on the cross-section of expected returns via a modified Fama-Macbeth regression suitable for estima- tion problems involving thousands of firm characteristics. The second chapter estimates eco- nomically significant risks from legally required risk disclosures in public companies annual filings via a novel regression specification designed for the estimation of firm characteristics that are both aligned with expected returns and semantically meaningful. The third chapter examines the aggregate financial consequences of firms’ cash holdings for shareholders.
Essays On Markets With Frictions, Hyesung Yoo
Essays On Markets With Frictions, Hyesung Yoo
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, I explore the implications of various forms of frictions on market outcomes.Specifically, I look at search frictions in two-sided markets, geographic frictions in a healthcare market, and the use of a machine learning approach in the presence of regulatory frictions. In the first chapter, I leverage the entry of a high-speed train system in South Korea as a natural experiment to establish the causal effect of competition between hospitals on health care quality and consumer welfare. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we examine the effects of competition on hospitals depending on their proximity to train stations, notably how …
Antecedent And Consequence Of Flux In Coordination Caused By Team Membership Change, Taejin Hwang
Antecedent And Consequence Of Flux In Coordination Caused By Team Membership Change, Taejin Hwang
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Teams in diverse settings experience membership change. Although researchers have examined what happens in a team after membership change, we know little about what happens in a team after members are informed about the upcoming change and before the change actually happens. I develop and test a conceptual model of how teams respond to the news of upcoming membership change. Drawing on social identity theory, I propose that decreased team identification of members who will soon leave a team would necessitate members who will stay in a team to modify their coordination mechanisms which result in flux in coordination. Because …
Essays In Investments, Lina Han
Essays In Investments, Lina Han
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Over the past decade, the asset management industry has experienced significant changes, with exponential growth due to the demand from individual investors. Within this context, my dissertation focuses on studying both individual and institutional investors’ behaviors. In Chapter 1, I study individual investors’ behaviors on the Alipay platform. I use unique, individual transaction data from a trading experiment implemented through the Alipay app and the same individuals’ trading history in the financial market. In response to the exogenous price movements in the experiment, investors tend to be contrarian traders. The sophisticated investors tend to be more contrarian than the less …
Essays On Information And Liquidity, Swaminathan Balasubramaniam
Essays On Information And Liquidity, Swaminathan Balasubramaniam
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The 2008 financial crisis has highlighted the challenges faced by financial systems in aggregating information, ensuring coordination among various market participants and providing adequate liquidity. In this backdrop, the three chapters of the dissertation explore (i) the role of disagreement in enabling communication and trade among strategic investors (ii) how uncertainty about what others know could be exploited in preventing coordination failures (ii) pricing liquid and illiquid assets in response to unforeseen liquidity demand.
When do competing traders, endowed with different pieces of information pertaining to a security payoff, exchange information before trading? The first essay shows that competing traders …
Three Essays On Competition And Misconduct, Parasuram Balasubramanian
Three Essays On Competition And Misconduct, Parasuram Balasubramanian
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines firm behavior in response to when regulators, market players or stakeholders address the issue of negative production externalities arising from firm activity. The first chapter examines how economic actors respond to an environmental regulation that seeks to foreclose certain market positions from future activity, in order to preserve natural resources. In chapter two, I examine how competition can have a monitoring effect on the likelihood of misconduct. Chapters one and two use satellite data on commercial fishing activity that allows me to observe fishing activity at a high spatial and temporal resolution. The third chapter addresses the …
Peer Interactions In Decision Making, Yijun Chen
Peer Interactions In Decision Making, Yijun Chen
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The broad research topic of my dissertation is individual’s decision making in the presence of peer interactions. I focus on empirical settings where individuals are connected with others in the peer network, and through peer interactions, their decisions are interdependent. Peer network structures in terms of who is connected with whom and the mechanisms of peer interactions convey valuable information on the decision making process. I employ quantitative empirical methods to uncover the information embedded in peer networks, provide insights on the mechanisms of peer interactions, and generate peer-network based managerial implications.
Chapter 1 studies how participants collaborate to compete …
Essays In Corporate Finance And Machine Learning, Manish Jha
Essays In Corporate Finance And Machine Learning, Manish Jha
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
My dissertation focuses on two broad questions. First, why do shareholder’s preferences vary, and how various agents persuade them? And second, how public perceptions about the financial sector and regulations affect economic outcomes? While my research plan contributes to the two distinct fields of literature, a unifying theme of my research is the use of innovative machine learning techniques to overcome the empirical challenges that would typically prevent measuring these sentiments objectively.
In my Chapter 1, I use a supervised machine learning model on mutual fund family’s proxy voting choices to estimate their preferences. I find that hedge fund activists …