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اثر التدفقات النقدية على اداء المصارف دراسة تطبيقية في عينة من المصارف المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, جليلة عيدان الذهبي Sep 2018

اثر التدفقات النقدية على اداء المصارف دراسة تطبيقية في عينة من المصارف المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, جليلة عيدان الذهبي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى توضيح اهمية استعمال مقاييس التدفقات النقدية للوصول الى مقياس يفيد في تقييم اداء المصارف. ولتحقيق ذلك فقد تم اختيار عينة من المصارف التجارية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية للمدة من 2006 الى 2015 وهي ثمان مصارف وباستعمال مجموعة من وسائل التحليل المالي والتحليل الاحصائي . تمثلت مشكلة البحث بأن هناك فجوة بين مقاييس التدفقات النقدية والتي يتم الوصول اليها من خلال اتباع الاساس النقدي وان الاعتماد على هذه المقاييس لا يعطي الصورة الواضحة للوصول الى اداء المصارف . وان فرضية البحث التي اخضعت للاختبار هي انه توجد علاقة معنوية للتدفقات النقدية على اداء المصارف. وانطلاقاً على …

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اثر الفساد الاداري والمالي على عملية التنمية الاقتصادية في العراق دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من منتسبي المعهد التقني في الديوانية, مؤمل حسين جويسم Sep 2018

اثر الفساد الاداري والمالي على عملية التنمية الاقتصادية في العراق دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من منتسبي المعهد التقني في الديوانية, مؤمل حسين جويسم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الحالي الى اختبار العلاقة بين الفساد الإداري والمالي والتنمية الاقتصادية في العراق . وقد جمعت البيانات الخاصة بالبحث باستخدام استمارة الاستبيان التي اعدت لهذا الغرض وقد تضمنت عينة البحث (100) منتسب من تدريسين ومسؤولين الشعب والوحدات في المعهد التقني الديوانية . وقد تم استخدام برنامج ( Spss.24) لتحليل البيانات وقد توصل الباحث الى جملة من الاستنتاجات والتوصيات كان ابرزها ضعف الاجهزة الرقابية الادارية والمالية وضعف الممارسات الديمقراطية وغياب الشفافية في نشر المعلومات عن المفسدين في مفاصل الدولة المختلفة وضرورة وضع استراتيجية شاملة لمحاربة او مكافحة الفساد الاداري والمالي في مختلف المجالات الاقتصادية وغير الاقتصادية التي من شئنها تقلل …

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نظرية المالية السلوكية كمدخل لإدارة المخاطر الفاعلة دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من العاملين في شركات الصناعة العراقية, حسن شاكر الشمري Sep 2018

نظرية المالية السلوكية كمدخل لإدارة المخاطر الفاعلة دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من العاملين في شركات الصناعة العراقية, حسن شاكر الشمري

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تعد ادارة المخاطر المالية والتشغيلية أحدى التحديات الجوهرية التي تواجه أدارة الشركات والمتعاملين في الاسواق المالية, فهدف البحث هو الخوض في مضامين أدارة المخاطر الفاعلة وتحديد مؤشراتها واستراتيجياتها, واختيار السبل المناسبة لمعالجتها من خلال تشخيص تأثير العوامل السلوكية والنفسية والمتمثلة بنظرية المالية السلوكية في ادارة المخاطر الفاعلة, وقد طور الانموذج الفرضي للبحث من خلال المراجعة الواسعة والمعمقة للأدبيات ذات الصلة بمحوري البحث وهما المالية السلوكية (الحد الى المراجحة, علم النفس الادراكي, الثقة المفرطة, التنافر المعرفي, الترسيخ, التأطير, التأكيد, الادراك المتأخر, الندم) بوصفه المتغير المستقل, وإدارة المخاطر الفاعلة (فهم المخاطر, تعريف المخاطر, تقييم المخاطر وتحليلها, مراقبة المخاطر والسيطرة عليها ) بوصفه …

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دراسة تحليلية لمخاطر الائتمان باستخدام كشف التدفقات النقدية وبيان أثرها على كفاية راس المال للمدة من 2010-2015 – دراسة تطبيقية في المصرف الزراعي, علي كريم محمد كبة Sep 2018

دراسة تحليلية لمخاطر الائتمان باستخدام كشف التدفقات النقدية وبيان أثرها على كفاية راس المال للمدة من 2010-2015 – دراسة تطبيقية في المصرف الزراعي, علي كريم محمد كبة

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة الى بيان تحليل مؤشرات كشف التدفق النقدي للمصرف الزراعي ومعرفة مدى إمكانية توفير السيولة المالية وبيان تأثير الائتمان الممنوح من قبل المصرف الزراعي في مؤشرات كشف التدفق النقدي للمدة من 2010 الى 2015 بالاعتماد على الموازنة المالية العامة وقد حدّدت هذه المتغيرات بيان الأهمية لقائمة كشف التدفق والتحليل المالي والائتماني من وجهة النظر المصرفية ، ومفهوم التدفق النقدي والاهمية وكفاية راس المال المصرفي وتم استخدام البرنامج الاحصائي spss لبيان علاقة أثر الائتمان المصرفي في كشف التدفق النقدي واثر القروض الكلية على راس المال الثابت للمصرف لغرض تقدير أنموذج الانحدار المتعدد والبسيط ، ومن خلال ما أظهره التحليل تبين …

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العلاقة بين الحوكمة الالكترونية والاداء المنضمي في شركات التأمين العراقية دراسة في شركات التأمين العاملة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, بتول عبد علي غالي Sep 2018

العلاقة بين الحوكمة الالكترونية والاداء المنضمي في شركات التأمين العراقية دراسة في شركات التأمين العاملة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, بتول عبد علي غالي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى التعرف على العلاقة بين الحوكمة الالكترونية وتطوير الاداء المنضمي في شركات التامين العراقية ، وذلك من خلال توعية الكوادر الادارية في شركات التامين من اجل التخلص من الاعمال الروتينية الادارية وتحويلها الى نظم المعلومات الحاسوبية بما ينسجم مع التطورات الحاصلة في بيئة الاعمال الالكترونية المتطورة. ومن اجل تحقيق اهداف البحث فقد تم الاعتماد على المنهج الاستنباطي في الجانب النظري ، والجانب الاستقرائي في الجانب العملي وذلك من خلال تصميم استمارة استبيان تضمنت مجموعة من الاسئلة والتي تم توزيعها على شركات التامين العراقية في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية ، ومن خلال تلك الاسئلة التي تم طرحها والاجوبة التي …

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Time-Series And Cross-Section Variation Of Bond Risk Premia, Niloofar Sahebalzamany Sep 2018

Time-Series And Cross-Section Variation Of Bond Risk Premia, Niloofar Sahebalzamany

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

A long-term bond that is sold before its maturity has an uncertain excess return over the certain return from a shorter-term risk-free bond maturing at the time of sale. There is strong evidence that this excess return is predictable and that the predicted excess return, or risk premium, is time varying. Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005) use five forward rates to predict excess returns on one to five-year maturity bonds. I extend and improve their approach in multiple aspects. Firstly, the data set for the US market is expanded in two dimensions: cross-section and time series. In the cross-section dimension, one- …

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Debt Market Illiquidity And Correlated Default Risk, Siamak Javadi, Mohsen Mollagholamali Sep 2018

Debt Market Illiquidity And Correlated Default Risk, Siamak Javadi, Mohsen Mollagholamali

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We empirically test the theoretical prediction of the impact of debt market liquidity on correlated default risk. Confirming the theory, our results indicate that the lower debt market liquidity, leads to an economically significant increase in the correlated default risk. Also consistent with theory, we show that this effect is more pronounced for short-term debt.

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A Non-Parametric Approach To Testing The Axioms Of The Shapley Value With Limited Data, Victor H. Aguiar, Roland Pongou, Jean-Baptiste Tondji Sep 2018

A Non-Parametric Approach To Testing The Axioms Of The Shapley Value With Limited Data, Victor H. Aguiar, Roland Pongou, Jean-Baptiste Tondji

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

The unique properties of the Shapley value–efficiency, equal treatment of identical input factors, and marginality–have made it an appealing solution concept in various classes of problems. It is however recognized that the pay schemes utilized in many real-life situations generally depart from this value. We propose a non-parametric approach to testing the empirical content of this concept with limited datasets. We introduce the Shapley distance, which, for a fixed monotone transferable-utility game, measures the distance of an arbitrary pay profile to the Shapley pay profile, and show that it is additively decomposable into the violations of the classical …

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Intergenerational Mobility And The Political Economy Of Immigration, Henning Bohn, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco Sep 2018

Intergenerational Mobility And The Political Economy Of Immigration, Henning Bohn, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Flows of US immigrants are concentrated at the extremes of the skill distribution. We develop a dynamic political economy model consistent with this observation. Individuals care about wages and the welfare of their children. Skill types are complementary in production. Voter support for immigration requires that the children of median-voter natives and of immigrants have sufficiently dissimilar skills. We estimate intergenerational transition matrices for skills, as measured by education, and find support for immigration at high and low skills, but not in the middle. In a version with guest worker programs, voters prefer high-skilled immigrants but low-skilled guest workers.

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Labor Law And Innovation Revisited, Bill B. Francis, Incheol Kim, Bin Wang, Zhengyi Zhang Sep 2018

Labor Law And Innovation Revisited, Bill B. Francis, Incheol Kim, Bin Wang, Zhengyi Zhang

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This paper examines the impact of changes in job security on corporate innovation in 20 non-U.S. OECD countries. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we provide firm-level evidence that the enhancement of labor protection has a negative impact on innovation. We then discuss possible channels and find that employee-friendly labor reforms induce inventor shirking and a distortion in labor flow. Further investigation reveals that the negative relation is more pronounced in 1) firms that heavily rely on external financing, 2) firms that have high R&D intensity, 3) manufacturing industries, and 4) civil-law countries. Our micro-level evidence indicates that enhanced employment protection impedes …

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead To Industrial Agglomeration?, Wen-Tai Hsu, Yi Lu, Xuan Luo, Lianming Zhu Sep 2018

Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead To Industrial Agglomeration?, Wen-Tai Hsu, Yi Lu, Xuan Luo, Lianming Zhu

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on industrial agglomeration. Using the differential effects of FDI deregulation in 2002 in China on different industries, we find that FDI actually affects industrial agglomeration negatively. This result is somewhat counter-intuitive, as the conventional wisdom tends to suggest that FDI attracts domestic firms to cluster for various agglomeration benefits, in particular technology spillovers. To reconcile our empirical findings and the conventional wisdom, we develop a theory of FDI and agglomeration based on two counter-veiling forces. Technology diffusion from FDI attracts domestic firms to cluster, but fiercer competition drives firms away. …

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Warrants And Their Underlying Stocks: Microstructure Evidence From An Emerging Market, Charlie Charoenwong, David K. Ding, Nuttawat Visaltanachoti Sep 2018

Warrants And Their Underlying Stocks: Microstructure Evidence From An Emerging Market, Charlie Charoenwong, David K. Ding, Nuttawat Visaltanachoti

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The Stock Exchange of Thailand provides an ideal platform for comparing the trading characteristics of warrants and their underlying stocks since both of them trade in the same market under identical trading rules. If their patterns diverge significantly, it may be possible for an astute trader to devise profitable arbitrage strategies during the life of the warrants. We find that both their patterns are downward-sloping for spreads, U-shaped for flow toxicity, volatility, depth concentration, and trading volume; and upward-sloping for depth and market order flow ratio. This implies that trading under identical market structures leads to similar trading characteristics. We …

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Optimal Portfolio Choices And The Determination Of Housing Rents Under Housing Market Uncertainty, Gang-Zhi Fan, Ming Pu, Xiaoying Deng, Seow Eng Ong Sep 2018

Optimal Portfolio Choices And The Determination Of Housing Rents Under Housing Market Uncertainty, Gang-Zhi Fan, Ming Pu, Xiaoying Deng, Seow Eng Ong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study proposes a utility indifference-based model to investigate the pricing issue of house rents under housing market uncertainty. Our model not only allows for the crucial features in the housing market, such as market incompleteness and high idiosyncratic risk, but also the interaction of households’ house tenure choices with their financial asset holdings. Our model provides interesting insights into the hedging of house market risk and determination of housing rents. In addition to the parameters describing the expected changes and volatility on stock and house returns, we also show that individual precautionary savings motive, idiosyncratic risk premium, and the …

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Does Manufacturing Sophistication Lead To Higher Demand For Vocational Workers? Evidence From Indonesia, Padang Wicaksono, Lionel Priyadi Aug 2018

Does Manufacturing Sophistication Lead To Higher Demand For Vocational Workers? Evidence From Indonesia, Padang Wicaksono, Lionel Priyadi

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

Indonesia post-crisis manufacturing growth has been dominated by technologically sophisticated industry. Hypothetically, this development would increase the demand for skilled and more specialized workers like vocational school graduates. However, statistical evidences show that manufacturing sophistication stimulated by integration with the Global Production Network increase demand for vocational as well as general high school graduates. Moreover, higher demand does not necessarily result in sustainable career prospect, as many vocational graduates still have limited opportunity to improve their skills while climbing the seniority ladder possibly caused by shifting Global Value Chain from export-oriented toward domestic market-oriented that affect the industry's technological complexity.

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The Relationship Of Vat Rate And Revenues In The Case Of Informality, Riatu M. Qibthiyyah Aug 2018

The Relationship Of Vat Rate And Revenues In The Case Of Informality, Riatu M. Qibthiyyah

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

This study explored relationship between tax rate and revenues in the case of VAT, one of few type of consumption taxes that is considered to be a broad-based tax. Based on a larger set of countries - in comparison to previous studies, this study shows VAT rate has an inverted U-shaped relationship to VATÂ revenues, confirming the Laffer Curve theory. Exploring further on the effect of informality to maximum VAT rate, we found that higher informality will reduce government flexibility in its effort to increase tax rate. Furthermore, openness has significant and positive effect on VAT revenues performance, and tax …

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Income Inequality Between Formal-Informal Employees Based On Education Group, Dias Satria Aug 2018

Income Inequality Between Formal-Informal Employees Based On Education Group, Dias Satria

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

Integrally, the informal sector deals with the formal sector with pro-cyclical nature or as a complementary sector. Such conditions allow for wage disparity between sectors even in the same education group. Thus, this study seeks to determine the determinants of wage inequality between formal and informal employees in skilled and unskilled workers in Indonesia in 2017 using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The results showed that the discrimination factor had a greater influence than the endowment factor on wage inequality and the endowment factors that contributed to the increase in wage inequality between the two groups were age squared, experience, and job training.

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Recent Developments In Indonesia's Macro-Economy And Trade, Q1-2018, Febrio Kacaribu Aug 2018

Recent Developments In Indonesia's Macro-Economy And Trade, Q1-2018, Febrio Kacaribu

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

This paper discusses Indonesia's macroeconomic and trade development in the first quarter of 2018. The macroeconomic data shows that the industrial growth was inhibited by regulatory regime inconsistency, while consumption growth still lagged overall GDP growth, and investment growth tended to rise. The trade data shows that the non-oil-and-gas commodities dominated its export, although the commodities terms-of-trade declined. Indonesia's imports were mostly used as raw and auxiliary materials for the input of domestic production. The data also reveals that the larger the firms, the stronger tendency that they have comparative advantage in capital-intensive commodities, and vice versa.

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Modification Of The Regulatory Impact Assessment On Indonesia's Economic Policies, Kiki Verico Aug 2018

Modification Of The Regulatory Impact Assessment On Indonesia's Economic Policies, Kiki Verico

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

This paper modifies the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) method in Indonesia's trade, investment, and industrial incentive policies. First, it analyses the Indonesian Bilateral Trade Agreements of Indonesia - Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA) and Indonesia - Pakistan Preferential Trade Agreement (IP-PTA) This paper found if the trading partner has GNI per capita higher than Indonesia's then the expected outcome was the increasing FDI inflows and if its GNI per capita lower therefore the most top foreseeable result was the rising net trade balance of Indonesia. Second, it analyses industrial sector incentive analysis and found that firms prefer supply-side than fiscal …

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Research On Risk Control Of Ship Financial Leasing, Junyi Xu Aug 2018

Research On Risk Control Of Ship Financial Leasing, Junyi Xu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Gdp And Refugees: An Economic Argument For Accepting Refugees, Michael Jarman Aug 2018

Gdp And Refugees: An Economic Argument For Accepting Refugees, Michael Jarman

Marriott Student Review

This paper examines both the costs and benefits associated with accepting refugees and purports to show that accepting refugees is economically beneficial; increasing GDP in the long run. There is a substantial cost associated with accepting and sustaining refugees, both in providing necessities and in the impact that refugees have on local job markets. However, longitudinal data pulled from Denmark, Germany, and Turkey has shown that local markets do recover from the initial shock. Over time as refugees integrate into their host communities, they provide dividends in the form of increasing demand, greater mobility and wage increases for locals, and …

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The Effects Of Economic Policy Uncertainty On Common Stock And American Depository Receipts, Bradley David Zynda Ii Aug 2018

The Effects Of Economic Policy Uncertainty On Common Stock And American Depository Receipts, Bradley David Zynda Ii

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Uncertainty can have profound implications on both firms and individuals who hope to optimally make decisions in their best interest. In this research, I seek to examine the impact that economic policy uncertainty has on domestic and foreign stock. In particular, I take a market microstructure perspective focused on stock liquidity and volatility measures in response to changes in economic policy uncertainty. Understanding the directional flow of economic policy uncertainty and the magnitude of the consequences at home and abroad can both help prepare agents to make good decisions about the future and exhort policy makers to be more efficient …

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Downside Risk And Stock Returns In The G7 Countries: An Empirical Analysis Of Their Long-Run And Short-Run Dynamics, Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen, Thomas C. Chiang, Wolfgang Karl Härdle Aug 2018

Downside Risk And Stock Returns In The G7 Countries: An Empirical Analysis Of Their Long-Run And Short-Run Dynamics, Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen, Thomas C. Chiang, Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics

Any risk-return tradeoff analysis in aggregate equity markets relies on appropriate measures of risk, in most studies based on (co-)variance relations. Consequently, in integrated global markets, country-specific expected return is priced with a world price of covariance risk. This study relates domestic excess stock returns to the world downside risk. Evidence shows that downside tail risk (as a multiplier of volatility) has long memory cointegration properties; hence, the underlying risk aversion behavior in an integrated market is associated with the conditional quantile ratio, the correlation of stock returns, and the cointegrating coefficient of downside risk. Our empirical results based on …

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An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of The Change In Real Effective Exchange Rate On China's Inflow Of Foreign Direct Investment, Mingyu Niu Aug 2018

An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of The Change In Real Effective Exchange Rate On China's Inflow Of Foreign Direct Investment, Mingyu Niu

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

With the development of worldwide economic and globalization, China plays an important role in international trade. Since the "reform and openness" and "five years' plan", China’s economy became the second largest in the world. During the period of economic development, Foreign Direct Investment became an important part of improving market socialism in China. In this paper, I use monthly data on foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and the index of real effective exchange rate (REER) of the Chinese RMB for the period from Jan 2008 to Nov 2017. I develop a statistical model to test the causality between FDI …

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Do Congressmen Really Drive Cars?, Tyler Brown Aug 2018

Do Congressmen Really Drive Cars?, Tyler Brown

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

My research focuses on stock returns around term elections. I will be looking at the 50 most held stocks of congressmen, and taking the returns of these stocks against the market average during election season. I examine if there are Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CARs) that can be realized as a result of information about the elections. I want to find any possible trading strategy that investors could use to obtain returns that are in excess of the market average. I am attempting to discover how the market behaves when election season is occurring. This information could prove to be very …

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Do Fomc Actions Speak Loudly? Evidence From Corporate Bond Credit Spreads, Siamak Javadi, Ali Nejadmalayeri, Tim Krehbiel Aug 2018

Do Fomc Actions Speak Loudly? Evidence From Corporate Bond Credit Spreads, Siamak Javadi, Ali Nejadmalayeri, Tim Krehbiel

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We find that Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) actions (especially rate cuts) narrowed corporate credit spreads during the pre-crisis period of 2002-2007. During the 2008 crisis period, we find that both conventional cuts and quantitative easing decreased spreads. But FOMC inactions caused significant widening of spreads. The effects are especially large for speculative-grade and short-maturity bonds. Overall, the policy uncertainty during the crisis and macroeconomic theories during the pre-crisis period help to explain why FOMC announcements impacted credit spreads. The Fed’s actions targeted at promoting growth and/or providing systemic liquidity were especially noted by the corporate bond market. Keywords:

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Changes In Sentiment On Reit Industry Excess Returns And Volatility, Daniel Huerta-Sanchez, Diego Escobari Aug 2018

Changes In Sentiment On Reit Industry Excess Returns And Volatility, Daniel Huerta-Sanchez, Diego Escobari

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

REIT characteristics pose unique risks and benefits to investors who seek liquid diversification and hedging vehicles to complement their portfolios. This paper tests for the asymmetric effect of individual and institutional investor sentiment on REIT industry returns and conditional volatility. We simultaneously model the impact of two markedly different groups of investors on the return generating process of the REIT industry. Our findings suggest that noise trading imposes significant systemic risk on the realization of REIT industry returns. Interestingly, corrections in institutional investor expectations have a larger effect on REIT industry returns and volatility than changes in individual investor expectations. …

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Disentangling The Impacts Of Industrial And Global Diversification On Firm Risk, Mohammad Jafarinejad, Thanh Ngo, Diego Escobari Aug 2018

Disentangling The Impacts Of Industrial And Global Diversification On Firm Risk, Mohammad Jafarinejad, Thanh Ngo, Diego Escobari

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We examine the impact of corporate diversification on firm risk exposure from 1998 to 2016. We find that both global and industrial diversification mitigate idiosyncratic and world market risk while having a negligible impact on U.S. market risk, but the effects vary before, during, and after the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Before the crisis, only global diversification mitigates idiosyncratic risk, but it increases firms' exposure to world market risk. During the crisis, industrial diversification increases idiosyncratic risk, but both types of diversification increase exposure to U.S. market risk. After the crisis, both types of diversification increase firms' exposure to U.S. …

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Essays In Leveraged Capital Markets, Kenneth D. Ford Aug 2018

Essays In Leveraged Capital Markets, Kenneth D. Ford

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The debt capital markets for leveraged borrowers are ripe with information asymmetry, lender specialization, and borrower segmentation. In this dissertation, I explore how these factors manifest themselves and the economic consequences thereof. Essay 1 shows that adverse selection and moral hazard concerns are inherent in underwriting syndicates that differ in size and number of lead underwriters. Using a nested double selection probit model of syndicate choice, I examine the matching of issuers and underwriters and find that matches of issuer quality and underwriter reputation are positive assortative. Further, switching regressions show that yield spreads reflect uncertainty about the intrinsic values …

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Essays In Networks Of Finance And Experimental Finance: A Behavioral View, Weineng Xu Aug 2018

Essays In Networks Of Finance And Experimental Finance: A Behavioral View, Weineng Xu

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Behavioral and managerial biases can occur among corporate executives that lead to suboptimal decision making and outcomes for the shareholders. In the first essay, I study how the personal networks of CEO affect the performance of the firm in the context of IPO. I find that CEOs at higher social hierarchical positions can allow managerial entrenchment and prevent dismissal. The findings show that influential CEOs are associated with higher IPO underpricing, lower likelihood of positive offer price revision, and lower likelihood of wealth creation for the pre-IPO shareholders. In the second essay, I explore how the social connections between bidder …

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Marking To Market And Inefficient Investment Decisions, Clemens A. Otto, Paolo F. Volpin Aug 2018

Marking To Market And Inefficient Investment Decisions, Clemens A. Otto, Paolo F. Volpin

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We examine how mark-to-market accounting affects the investment decisions of managers with reputation concerns. Reporting the current market value of a firm’s assets can help mitigate agency problems because it provides outsiders (e.g., shareholders) with new information against which the management’s decisions can be evaluated. However, the fact that the assets’ market value is informative can also have a negative side effect: managers may shy away from investments that indicate conflicting private information and would damage their reputation. This effect can lead to inefficient investment decisions and make marking to market less desirable when market prices are more informative.

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