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2020

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The Impact Of Fake News On Company Value: Evidence From Tesla And Galena Biopharma, David D. Parsons Dec 2020

The Impact Of Fake News On Company Value: Evidence From Tesla And Galena Biopharma, David D. Parsons

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Determinants And Consequences Of Management Forecasts Of Key Performance Indicators: Evidence From The Airline Industry, Andrew Joseph Doucet Aug 2020

Determinants And Consequences Of Management Forecasts Of Key Performance Indicators: Evidence From The Airline Industry, Andrew Joseph Doucet

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, I examine the determinants and consequences of quarterly management guidance of key performance indicators (KPIs). I use a novel dataset of 457 firm-quarter observations in the airline industry and hand-collect information on the existence and properties of quarterly KPI guidance. Specifically, I collect data on quarterly KPI guidance for three KPIs used in airline the industry: available seat miles, revenue per available seat mile, and cost per available seat mile. Consistent with managers using quarterly KPI guidance to reduce analyst uncertainty, I find that managers are more likely to provide quarterly KPI guidance when initial analyst earnings …


Essays On Investor Attention And Information Acquisition, Charles A. Lambert Aug 2020

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.


Three Essays In Public Finance, Md Sabbirul Haque Aug 2020

Three Essays In Public Finance, Md Sabbirul Haque

Doctoral Dissertations

The first chapter examines the long-run and short-run elasticity of income with respect to changes in tax rates. The Elasticity of Taxable Income (ETI) is a largely-debated parameter in both research and policy. Despite the growing importance of ETI, the literature has not fully considered the intertemporal impacts of taxation. I expand the literature by estimating short-run and long-run impacts of tax rate changes relying on the most recent estimation method and using appropriate lagged values of income when constructing the predicted net-of-tax rate instruments. The short-run ETI in the baseline specification is 0.69 whereas estimates for the Elasticity of …


Influencer Versus Body Positive Marketing: Perceived Brand Personalities In The Eye Of The Target Consumer, Sarah N. Bowman May 2020

Influencer Versus Body Positive Marketing: Perceived Brand Personalities In The Eye Of The Target Consumer, Sarah N. Bowman

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Direct Listing Vs. Traditional Ipo Case Study, Zachary V. Skaff May 2020

Direct Listing Vs. Traditional Ipo Case Study, Zachary V. Skaff

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Major Healthcare Legislation: Effects And Reactions By Large U.S. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, 2001-2018, Eric A. Allen May 2020

Major Healthcare Legislation: Effects And Reactions By Large U.S. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, 2001-2018, Eric A. Allen

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Economies On Plastic Waste And Recycling Due To International Trade, Alyx Mccall Thompson May 2020

The Impact Of Economies On Plastic Waste And Recycling Due To International Trade, Alyx Mccall Thompson

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Big Data And Information Technology On The Accounting Field And Business Environment, Mitchell Kludt May 2020

The Impact Of Big Data And Information Technology On The Accounting Field And Business Environment, Mitchell Kludt

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Motivations, Impact And Outcomes Affiliated With Short-Term Study Abroad Programs For Business Students, Laura Katherine Skipper May 2020

Motivations, Impact And Outcomes Affiliated With Short-Term Study Abroad Programs For Business Students, Laura Katherine Skipper

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


The Importance Of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Examination Of The Dollywood Foundations My People Fund, Callie Victoria Johnson May 2020

The Importance Of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Examination Of The Dollywood Foundations My People Fund, Callie Victoria Johnson

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


The Decline Of American Entrepreneurship: An Analysis Of Causes Of Macro Market Trends And A Changing American Economic System, Owen Flomberg May 2020

The Decline Of American Entrepreneurship: An Analysis Of Causes Of Macro Market Trends And A Changing American Economic System, Owen Flomberg

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 May 2020

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.


The Impact Of The 2017 Tax Cuts And Jobs Act On The Link Between Stock-Based Compensation And Corporate Debt Policy, Victoria Heavey May 2020

The Impact Of The 2017 Tax Cuts And Jobs Act On The Link Between Stock-Based Compensation And Corporate Debt Policy, Victoria Heavey

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Fyre Festival: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly And Its Impact On Influencer Marketing, Loren Grace Gilbert, Courtney Childers, Brandon Boatwright May 2020

Fyre Festival: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly And Its Impact On Influencer Marketing, Loren Grace Gilbert, Courtney Childers, Brandon Boatwright

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.