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Broker Conflict Of Interest Mitigation Efforts And Mutual Funds: Evidence From The 2016 Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule, Connor Kasten
Broker Conflict Of Interest Mitigation Efforts And Mutual Funds: Evidence From The 2016 Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule, Connor Kasten
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation utilizes the 2016 Department of Labor (DOL) Fiduciary Rule to analyze the impact of efforts to mitigate broker conflicts of interest on mutual funds. The first chapter examines the effect of the Fiduciary Rule on mutual fund investment. Specifically, I look at changes in the composition of funds available for investment and fund flows during and after the implementation of the Fiduciary Rule. I find that investment companies shifted away from offering investments with broker compensation by eliminating commissioned loads on existing funds, removing funds with broker compensation, and adding funds without broker compensation. This change in investment …
The Financial Impact Of The American Rescue Plan Act (Arpa) On The Population Health Of Knox County, Zachary Christopher Coover
The Financial Impact Of The American Rescue Plan Act (Arpa) On The Population Health Of Knox County, Zachary Christopher Coover
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Local Ipos And Retail Investor Trading, Guanhuan Wang
Local Ipos And Retail Investor Trading, Guanhuan Wang
Doctoral Dissertations
This paper examines how salient events affect retail investors’ trading behavior. Using data on households’ trading records from a large discount broker between 1991 and 1996, I find that Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) significantly increase the trading activities of local retail investors of stocks in the same industry over the subsequent year. The effect is stronger for less sophisticated investors and investors who live closer to the IPO firm’s headquarters, consistent with salience as the channel. I also find that retail investors are net buyers of stocks right after the local IPOs and become net sellers after a year and …
Fintech Lending In Consumer Credit Market During Risky Times: Evidence From The Marketplace Lending Platforms, Miaoyin Zhang
Fintech Lending In Consumer Credit Market During Risky Times: Evidence From The Marketplace Lending Platforms, Miaoyin Zhang
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation uses evidence from Marketplace Lending (MPL) platforms to examine how newly emerged Fintech lending performs during risky times. In the first chapter, I use the COVID-19 pandemic as a setting to examine the role of marketplace lending (MPL) as an alternative credit provider during a long-term and market-wide economic crisis. Using data from LendingClub, I find that marketplace lenders extend more credit to counties with larger COVID-19 exposure, as measured by its local economic impact and an area’s infection rate. This relation is more prominent in areas with fewer banks, suggesting that marketplace lenders fill borrowing needs in …
Essays On Investor Attention And Information Acquisition, Charles A. Lambert
Essays On Investor Attention And Information Acquisition, Charles A. Lambert
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the relation between capital market participants’ attention to fundamental information and capital market outcomes. The first essay examines whether investors’ attention to fundamental information helps predict mercer and acquisition activity. The second essay examines the impact of passive ownership on the acquisition of fundamental information.
Direct Listing Vs. Traditional Ipo Case Study, Zachary V. Skaff
Direct Listing Vs. Traditional Ipo Case Study, Zachary V. Skaff
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The Cost Of Big Data: Evaluating The Effects Of The European Union’S General Data Protection Regulation, Kara Rebecca White
The Cost Of Big Data: Evaluating The Effects Of The European Union’S General Data Protection Regulation, Kara Rebecca White
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Technological Innovation And The Gics: A Discussion Of Classification Needs In A Disrupted World, Madison Leann Moats
Technological Innovation And The Gics: A Discussion Of Classification Needs In A Disrupted World, Madison Leann Moats
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Decreasing Defined Benefit Plans On Employee Turnover, Melissa Claire Gregory
The Impact Of Decreasing Defined Benefit Plans On Employee Turnover, Melissa Claire Gregory
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Hurricane Matthew: Measuring The Stock Market Reaction On The Insurance Industry, Greg Gilbert
Hurricane Matthew: Measuring The Stock Market Reaction On The Insurance Industry, Greg Gilbert
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The Consequences Of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence From Dodd Frank 1502b, Charles Whitley Emerson
The Consequences Of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence From Dodd Frank 1502b, Charles Whitley Emerson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
A Cost-Differential Analysis Of Local Soybean Processing In East Tennessee: Roast Or Crush?, Rachel Lauren Eatherly
A Cost-Differential Analysis Of Local Soybean Processing In East Tennessee: Roast Or Crush?, Rachel Lauren Eatherly
Masters Theses
East Tennessee soybean producers currently have limited local markets and processing options. Most soybeans produced in the region are transported for processing or export to Guntersville or Decatur, Alabama. High transportation costs cut into profit margins and limit local economic impact. With the demand for processed soybeans from the local beef and dairy industries, local processing technology options ought to be investigated. This study will assist soybean farmers in decision-making between hauling to current processing plants or seeking out alternative local processing. Local processing points could allow local beef and dairy farmers additional options of including processed soybeans in least-cost …
Understanding The Retail Investor: Technical And Fundamental Analysis, Ben Davis
Understanding The Retail Investor: Technical And Fundamental Analysis, Ben Davis
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
An Economic Evaluation Of A Biofuel Supply Chain Utilizing Multiple Feedstocks, Huaqi Zhang
An Economic Evaluation Of A Biofuel Supply Chain Utilizing Multiple Feedstocks, Huaqi Zhang
Masters Theses
Biomass is considered as one potential feedstock for biofuel production. However, the high cost of biomass-to-biofuel supply chain, attributed to biomass’s low bulk density and resulting harvest, storage, and transportation challenges, has been a major hindrance to the success of biomass-based biofuel industry. In addition, the issue of dry matter losses during storage for a feedstock has affected biomass quantity and quality if the feedstock is stored for several months after a single harvest in a year. One potential way to improve the economics of biomass supply chain is to reduce storage need and enhance the utilization of harvest equipment …
Does Political Giving Impact Shareholder Wealth? Evidence From State Campaign Finance Reforms, Douglas Brian Blank Ii
Does Political Giving Impact Shareholder Wealth? Evidence From State Campaign Finance Reforms, Douglas Brian Blank Ii
Doctoral Dissertations
Does corporate political giving actually affect shareholder wealth? While firms value political participation, some lawmakers oppose corporate involvement in politics. Yet, the existing literature has established a correlation between campaign finance and corporate outcomes without fully documenting a causal relation. I use an innovative database of political giving to exploit changes in state campaign finance laws as an exogenous shock to political giving. Specifically, I use the staggered adoption of externally imposed legal limits to political giving across U.S. states to expose how shareholder wealth responds. I find shareholder wealth declines following legally imposed reductions in political giving. The causal …
How To Decrease Employee Turnover Rates Within Public Accounting Firms, Hannah Jankowski
How To Decrease Employee Turnover Rates Within Public Accounting Firms, Hannah Jankowski
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Role Of Inside Directors In Mitigating Negative Effects Of Outside Directors’ Busyness, Syed Mainuddin Kamal
Role Of Inside Directors In Mitigating Negative Effects Of Outside Directors’ Busyness, Syed Mainuddin Kamal
Doctoral Dissertations
In this study, I investigate the effect of outside directors’ busyness on firm performance, and how the presence of a certified inside director (CID) on the board alters the busyness effect. Busy outside directors are over-stretched to provide adequate monitoring. Certified inside directors (CIDs), inside directors holding a directorship at an unaffiliated firm, have director labor market incentives to focus on their own firm’s performance and share firm-specific information to outside directors for effective monitoring. I find that the negative effect of outside directors’ busyness on firm performance is mitigated when a firm’s board includes a certified inside director (CID). …
International Expansion In The Retail Industry: A Multi-Case Study On Strategic Expansionary Variables, Patrick Conaty
International Expansion In The Retail Industry: A Multi-Case Study On Strategic Expansionary Variables, Patrick Conaty
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
How Is The Stock Market Like Stephen Curry?, Mariah Paige Beane
How Is The Stock Market Like Stephen Curry?, Mariah Paige Beane
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Healthcare And The Market: An Event Study On The 2012 Reelection Of President Barack Obama, Robert Parrish Graham
Healthcare And The Market: An Event Study On The 2012 Reelection Of President Barack Obama, Robert Parrish Graham
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Accounting Information Risk And Credit Ratings, Douglas Ray Ayres
Accounting Information Risk And Credit Ratings, Douglas Ray Ayres
Doctoral Dissertations
Using a sample of U.S. firms, this study explores whether accounting information risk has an impact upon corporate credit ratings, a long term measure of the cost of debt. Theory suggests that accounting information risk could impact shorter term measures of the cost of debt, but is unclear as to whether it will have measurable effects upon the long term cost of debt. This study employs SFAS 157 level three fair value disclosures as a proxy for accounting information risk. The findings suggest higher levels of accounting information risk negatively impact credit ratings. This is supported by both levels and …
Two Essays On The Effects Of External Pressure On Executive Compensation: Evidenced Through Political Sensitivity And Pay For Performance Disclosure, Brandy Elaine Hadley
Two Essays On The Effects Of External Pressure On Executive Compensation: Evidenced Through Political Sensitivity And Pay For Performance Disclosure, Brandy Elaine Hadley
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation analyzes the impact of two external forces on executive compensation behavior. In the first chapter, the impact of political sensitivity is investigated as an external force on government contractor executive compensation. Compensation for top executives has come into the political spotlight, especially over the last decade, with many politicians publicly supporting limits on compensation. However, the impact of political scrutiny to limit compensation is debatable. This study analyzes the effect of political scrutiny on CEO compensation using a sample of Federal contractors, which represents a group of firms where politicians yield the most power. Results suggest that Federal …
The Performance Of Institutional Investor Trades Across The Supply Chain, Dallin Max Alldredge
The Performance Of Institutional Investor Trades Across The Supply Chain, Dallin Max Alldredge
Doctoral Dissertations
In this paper I investigate institutional ownership and trading across the supply chain. I find that institutions are more likely to own stock in a supplier firm, if they own stock in an economically linked customer firm. Institutions with stock in a pair of customer-supplier linked firms (i.e. joint owners) experience abnormal trading profits in supplier stocks. The magnitude of trading profits increases when institutions own a larger stake in the customer and when the supplier relies upon a concentrated customer base for sales revenue. Furthermore, I document that joint owner trading predicts unexpected earnings news, consistent with these institutional …
Theory And Experiments Exploring Behavioral, Financial, And Public Economics, Matthew John Mcmahon
Theory And Experiments Exploring Behavioral, Financial, And Public Economics, Matthew John Mcmahon
Doctoral Dissertations
I study three questions which relate to one another only in that each explores facets of economics. First, I theoretically examine the conditions under which introducing an impure public good decreases total public provision. I introduce a central planner who can tax the private good to correct this and identify the market characteristics that typify this scenario. Second, I test the two standard competing dividend puzzle hypotheses using a laboratory experiment. Evidence from the lab, including variables unobservable in the field, reinforces empirical work supporting the outcome model over the substitute. Last, I obscure from dictators information regarding recipients' income …
The Roles Boards Play In Ceo Succession Planning, Yi Li Rivolta
The Roles Boards Play In Ceo Succession Planning, Yi Li Rivolta
Doctoral Dissertations
A lack of CEO succession planning increases business risk as disruption is more likely during a CEO transition. One difficulty of examining the importance of CEO succession planning is that the planning process is difficult to observe and evaluate. The main purposes of this dissertation are two-fold. First is to investigate whether CEO succession planning matters by comparing disruption costs in firms with planned departure and those with unexpected CEO departures due to death and illness. The second purpose is to investigate whether inside or outside directors improve organizational resiliency using the context of sudden CEO departures when CEO succession …
The Importance Of Executive Effort, Lee Edward Biggerstaff
The Importance Of Executive Effort, Lee Edward Biggerstaff
Doctoral Dissertations
Agency theory stipulates that managerial effort is important to shareholders and costly for managers to provide. Executives may provide sub-optimal levels of effort because shareholders cannot easily observe the day-to-day actions of managers and therefore have difficulties properly monitoring the effort provided by firm management. Researchers also face the challenge of measuring executive effort. In this dissertation, I use an observable measure of leisure consumption to proxy for the effort provided by executives to study the impact of executive effort on firm outcomes.
In the first essay, I focus on Chief Executive Officers (“CEOs”) and the impact of their effort …
Impact Of The Financial Crisis On Derivative Valuation, Samuel M. Berklacich
Impact Of The Financial Crisis On Derivative Valuation, Samuel M. Berklacich
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Indefinite Knapsack Separable Quadratic Programming: Methods And Applications, Jaehwan Jeong
Indefinite Knapsack Separable Quadratic Programming: Methods And Applications, Jaehwan Jeong
Doctoral Dissertations
Quadratic programming (QP) has received significant consideration due to an extensive list of applications. Although polynomial time algorithms for the convex case have been developed, the solution of large scale QPs is challenging due to the computer memory and speed limitations. Moreover, if the QP is nonconvex or includes integer variables, the problem is NP-hard. Therefore, no known algorithm can solve such QPs efficiently. Alternatively, row-aggregation and diagonalization techniques have been developed to solve QP by a sub-problem, knapsack separable QP (KSQP), which has a separable objective function and is constrained by a single knapsack linear constraint and box constraints. …
Corporate Headquarters Relocations Announcements: Their Incidence Ratios, Industry Distribution, And Shareholder Wealth Effects, Bartholomew H. Rhoades
Corporate Headquarters Relocations Announcements: Their Incidence Ratios, Industry Distribution, And Shareholder Wealth Effects, Bartholomew H. Rhoades
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Solar Technology In Our World- A Business Approach, Luke Ingalls Liska
Solar Technology In Our World- A Business Approach, Luke Ingalls Liska
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.