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Full-Text Articles in Finance and Financial Management
Reducing Food Scarcity: The Benefits Of Urban Farming, S.A. Claudell, Emilio Mejia
Reducing Food Scarcity: The Benefits Of Urban Farming, S.A. Claudell, Emilio Mejia
Journal of Nonprofit Innovation
Urban farming can enhance the lives of communities and help reduce food scarcity. This paper presents a conceptual prototype of an efficient urban farming community that can be scaled for a single apartment building or an entire community across all global geoeconomics regions, including densely populated cities and rural, developing towns and communities. When deployed in coordination with smart crop choices, local farm support, and efficient transportation then the result isn’t just sustainability, but also increasing fresh produce accessibility, optimizing nutritional value, eliminating the use of ‘forever chemicals’, reducing transportation costs, and fostering global environmental benefits.
Imagine Doris, who is …
The Investment Gap: An Exploration Of Why So Few Women Study Finance At Brigham Young University, Elizabeth Anne Pearson
The Investment Gap: An Exploration Of Why So Few Women Study Finance At Brigham Young University, Elizabeth Anne Pearson
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis explores the root cause of the systemic underrepresentation of women in the finance industry by investigating why so few women choose to study finance in college. It looks in depth at why there is a low percentage of women that graduate in finance from Brigham Young University each year by analyzing the survey responses of women in business majors across the Marriott School. The thesis discusses three areas of solutions for greater mentorship, transparency, and exposure that can be implemented through five actionable steps to help shift the dynamic of representation. While I do not aim to make …
Initial Effects Of Subchapter V Of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy During Covid-19, Denise Han
Initial Effects Of Subchapter V Of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy During Covid-19, Denise Han
Undergraduate Honors Theses
On February 19, 2020, the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 went into effect, ushering in the use of Subchapter V by small business debtors. Lawmakers crafted Subchapter V with the intent to make the reorganization process more streamlined and cost effective than the standard Chapter 11 was for these debtors. With features such as the Subchapter V trustee, cramdown provisions, filing deadlines, lack of a creditors’ committee, and relaxed disclosure requirements, small business debtors should in theory be better positioned to emerge from bankruptcy as viable entities. Through quantitative analysis and qualitative research, this Article explores initial observations on …
Artificial Intelligence Create Value To Investors, Jing-Yang Huang
Artificial Intelligence Create Value To Investors, Jing-Yang Huang
Marriott Student Review
Artificial intelligence provides personalized assistance and solves tedious tasks in our daily lives. One of the applications of this technology is about investing. This article summarizes some basic knowledge of artificial intelligence and how it assists investors to create value.
The Effects Of Inter-Industry Mergers And Acquisitions On The Long-Term Volatility Of Equity Returns, Collin Myers
The Effects Of Inter-Industry Mergers And Acquisitions On The Long-Term Volatility Of Equity Returns, Collin Myers
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The objective of this research was to discover whether a significant relationship exists between the theoretically diversifying effects of inter-industry mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) and changes in the volatilities of acquisitive firms’ publicly-traded equity security returns (measured as the standard deviation of percentage changes in price) from pre-transaction announcement to post-transaction completion. My hypothesis is that a negative relationship should exist between changes in a firm’s equity return volatility over time and whether the firm completes a diversifying acquisition, which I define as one in which the target firm primarily operates in a different industry than the acquirer. 980 diversifying …
Plastic Bags And Bamboo Stools, Grace R. Bithell
Plastic Bags And Bamboo Stools, Grace R. Bithell
Marriott Student Review
This paper conducts a critical analyses of microfinance institutions. It gives an overview of the complexities of credit in developing countries and shows how microfinance fits into the equations. It discussed the successes and failures of microenterprises in trying to alleviate poverty. It also delves into best practices pertaining to lending to the poor and how microfinance is impacted by culture in developing nations.
Research Summary: Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence From Roth 401(K) Introductions, Parker Gardner
Research Summary: Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence From Roth 401(K) Introductions, Parker Gardner
Marriott Student Review
Can taxing retirement savings upfront increase buying power in retirement? BYU Marriott School of Management Dean Brigitte Madrian and fellow researches examine the impact of Roth 401(k)s on retirement savings and find that the introduction of Roth 401(k)s does not impact the dollar amount invested into 401(k)s.
Crowdfunding Challenges For New Charity Organizations, Katherine M. Lowe
Crowdfunding Challenges For New Charity Organizations, Katherine M. Lowe
Marriott Student Review
A look into the complicated and competitive world of nonprofit fundraising in the modern world. With a special emphasis on the struggles new nonprofits face in differentiating their services and attracting donors through online crowdfunding.
Strategic Implications Of Blockchain, William R. Adams
Strategic Implications Of Blockchain, William R. Adams
Marriott Student Review
This thesis introduces blockchain, the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and discusses how best to conceptualize it relative to other technologies. Following an explanation of the fundamentals of blockchain, also known as the distributed ledger, I identify the characteristics of the technology. Building upon blockchain’s inherent strengths and limitations, I explore potential business applications of blockchain. Finally, I recommend that leaders continue to track the development and adoption of blockchain technology, even if they decide that implementing it does not align with their organization’s strategy at present.
Predictive Power? Textual Analysis In Mergers & Acquisitions, Philip Morgan
Predictive Power? Textual Analysis In Mergers & Acquisitions, Philip Morgan
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Modern corporations utilize mergers and acquisitions as strategies to develop shareholder value today more than ever before, yet the need for understanding firms’ rationale and strategy is critical in predicting post-merger stock performance for all investors. I apply the interpretive power of textual analysis and regression to a corpus of SEC mergers and acquisitions public company filings between 1994-2017. Not only do I challenge the statistically significant correlation between word content and post-transaction abnormal stock returns, but I also characterize the effects of time segments, transaction size, and industry variation across time. As a final application, I consider sentiment analysis …
Pre-Management? How To Best Prepare: A Brief Overview For Potential Accounting, Finance, And Information Systems Students, Ammon Kou
Marriott Student Review
Many pre-management students are curious about the accounting, finance, and information systems majors offered at BYU. This article features an overview of each major and how best to prepare for those majors’ programs.
The Impact Of Government Loan Expansion On Post-Graduation Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study, Mark Johnson, Taylor Nadauld
The Impact Of Government Loan Expansion On Post-Graduation Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study, Mark Johnson, Taylor Nadauld
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The availability of higher education is linked to more affluent and prosperous societies. In the United States, policy makers have attempted to make post-secondary education readily available through grants and loans. In the past two decades student loans have exploded to become the second largest segment of consumer debt nationally. The effect that higher loan balances has on students has not been examined extensively. We perform a statistical analysis to demonstrate that when the government increases the supply for federal loans, students take on more credit to pay off more expensive forms of credit. All other effects of loans on …
Mergers And Acquisitions Document Vector Space Analysis, Steven Fortney, Karl Diether
Mergers And Acquisitions Document Vector Space Analysis, Steven Fortney, Karl Diether
Journal of Undergraduate Research
This project involved looking at Mergers and Acquisitions and a textual analysis of their SEC filings. We index, clean and match documents in the SEC EDGAR database to the CRSP and Compustat databases in order to consider multiple instruments for “specificity” and uniqueness in a filing. We then scrape each document and use the data to create these instruments. One instrument for specificity we create uses parts of the Stanford Natural Language Processing library and the NLTK and GenSim libraries in python to convert each filing into a vector in a vector space. This allows us to find the cosine …
Scaling Up Your Story: An Experiment In Global Knowledge Sharing At The World Bank, Shad Morris, James B. Oldroyd, Sita Ramaswami
Scaling Up Your Story: An Experiment In Global Knowledge Sharing At The World Bank, Shad Morris, James B. Oldroyd, Sita Ramaswami
Faculty Publications
Timely and effective knowledge transfer is increasingly important in today’s technologically advanced global market. However, a myopic focus on efficiency has frequently rendered most organizational knowledge ineffective. By coupling technology with a formal system that captures informal stories in an engaging and entertaining way, actors within an organization may be more willing to listen to what geographically dispersed colleagues are doing, and may be more likely to ascribe value to that information. Focusing on the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, we conducted interviews with those sharing and using knowledge, and performed content analyses of 175 knowledge-sharing narratives. …
Estimating The Short-Run Supply Curve Of Higher Education, Carter Davis, Taylor Nadauld
Estimating The Short-Run Supply Curve Of Higher Education, Carter Davis, Taylor Nadauld
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The original project that I set out to research with this ORCA grant was to investigate how the real estate bubble spread leading up to the financial crisis, using an incredible 90 gigabyte dataset of mortgage information. Two unfortunate events occurred during the course of this project: the external hard drive that stored the data was lost and a programming error on my part destroyed the data on the BYU supercomputer. Dr. Nadauld and I were devastated. Instead of investigating how bubbles spread, I set out to estimate the slope of the supply curve of higher education. Dr. Nadauld and …
Editor's Introduction: Social Capital, Paul C. Godfrey
Editor's Introduction: Social Capital, Paul C. Godfrey
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Keys To Understanding Your Social Capital, Brian Uzzi
Keys To Understanding Your Social Capital, Brian Uzzi
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Reciprocal Dynamics: Social Capital And Microcredit, Warner P. Woodworth
Reciprocal Dynamics: Social Capital And Microcredit, Warner P. Woodworth
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Social Capital: The Benefits, Potential Costs, And Prospects, Moses Acquaah
Social Capital: The Benefits, Potential Costs, And Prospects, Moses Acquaah
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Diasporas: Exploring Their Development Potential, Liesl Riddle
Diasporas: Exploring Their Development Potential, Liesl Riddle
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Esr Review
Mfdi Actively Promotes International Research, Esr Review
Mfdi Actively Promotes International Research, Esr Review
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
End Matter, Esr Review
Svc Winners Go A Step Further, Esr Review
Svc Winners Go A Step Further, Esr Review
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Single Mom Initiative Enters The Next Phase, Esr Review
Single Mom Initiative Enters The Next Phase, Esr Review
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Bottom Billion, Ben Lewis
Law As Relationship: Toward A More Effective And Ethical Legal Reform, Wade Channell
Law As Relationship: Toward A More Effective And Ethical Legal Reform, Wade Channell
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Vol. 10 No. 2 Esr Review, Esr Review
Vol. 10 No. 2 Esr Review, Esr Review
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Esr Review
Economic Development At A New Level, Ned C. Hill
Economic Development At A New Level, Ned C. Hill
Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review
No abstract provided.