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Essays On Financial Institutions And Advisors, Joseph D. Farizo
Essays On Financial Institutions And Advisors, Joseph D. Farizo
Theses and Dissertations--Finance and Quantitative Methods
In my first chapter, I examine how index funds vote their proxies on firms in its index that their family does not hold in its actively managed funds. For a given proxy proposal at a given point in time, I find that an index fund is more likely to oppose management on shares its family does not hold in its active funds than on shares its family does hold in its active funds. I further demonstrate that index fund governance has positive effects on the probability a proposal passes and on shareholder value. In my second chapter coauthored with Will …
Essays On Corporate Finance And Institutional Investors, Ang Li
Essays On Corporate Finance And Institutional Investors, Ang Li
Theses and Dissertations--Finance and Quantitative Methods
The dissertation consists of three chapters spanning two areas of finance: corporate finance and institutional investors. In the first chapter, “Board Gender Diversity, Firm Culture, and Female Inventors”, I study how employee's Research and Development (R&D) activity is affected by firm culture. Using board gender diversity as a proxy for female-friendly culture, I find that a greater representation of women in the boardroom is associated with increased productivity and innovation output by female inventors relative to male inventors. Female inventors file more highly cited patents and less uncited patents. The effect is driven by female directors with R&D or high-tech …