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Impact: What Influences Finance Research?, Tom Arnold, Alexander W. Butler, Timothy Falcon Crack, Ayca Altintig

Finance Faculty Publications

Which journal articles have had the most impact on finance research? Which journals dominated finance research in the 1990s? We answer these and similar questions using a comprehensive sample of journals, an extensive time period, and a new ranking method that avoids problems inherent in the existing literature. Among our findings: six of the 10 articles most highly cited by finance journals were published in econometrics or economics journals; Journal of Finance has the most citations, but it accounts for only one of the top 10 articles; and Journal of Financial Economics has the highest impact per article.

A Study Of The Effect Of The Assessment Ratio On State Aid For Public Schools In Northampton County, Virginia, Paul Gray Watson Jr.

Master's Theses

Since it is commonly recognized that real estate is the prime source of locally taxable wealth and that assessment values are the only controlled values in the assessment ratio, the problem was (1) to determine whether assessment values in the assessment ratio actually represented assessment values of the county as a whole; (2) to apply the information in (1) above to whether errors were made in determining the true value of locally taxable wealth in Northampton County which could affect the distribution of state educational monies to the county and hence to other localities as well.

Public school education is …

Accounting For The Finances Of Co-Curricular Activities In Suffolk High School, Arthur Edward Jones

Master's Theses

For a number of years the Virginia State Department of Education has been very much concerned with the handling of finances of co-curricular funds by individual schools. Although the finances of co-curricular activities do not come under the direct supervision of the State Department, this phase or school administration has caused much concern.

The topic of this thesis is "Accounting for Finances of co-curricular Activities in Suffolk High School". Suffolk High School is a member or the Virginia High School Literary and Athletic Association and classified in District I, Group II. It has an enrollment of 509 students including grades …

A Financial History Of State Education In Virginia, Lewis E. Chittum

Master's Theses

In state finances of Virginia education is second only to highways. The present position of education in the budget was not attained easily. On the contrary it was only through a long process that Virginia came to realize the fundamental duty of educating all the people at public expense. Thus, the extent to which the state has participated in this problem is an all important matter. In the following study, state participation has been reviewed from its earliest beginnings. he colonial period is included, as it reveals the tendencies working for the revelation of the obligation of the government to …