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Television and Internet Commercials Avoidance.
(2009)
This dissertation deals with the problem of video advertising avoidance by TV and Internet viewers. It focuses on the counterintuitive but systematic detrimental impact that brands (logos, trademarks pack shots) as well ...
How Immigrants and Students Respond to Public Policies: Evidence from Welfare Reform, the Minimum Wage and Stafford Loans.
(2008)
The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide ...
Inside or Outside: The Social Mechanisms of Entrepreneurship Choices. Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry.
(2009)
Actors often leave in pursuit of new ventures, even though entrepreneurial opportunities may exist inside the firm. While a bulk of work has focused on understanding the determinants of entrepreneurial transition (e.g., ...
Three Essays in Insider Trading.
(2008)
This dissertation investigates insider trading around significant corporate information events.
Chapter 1 tests the prediction of standard option pricing models that there is no relation between past stock returns and ...
Three Essays on Labor and Credit Markets.
(2009)
The first paper demonstrates the important role of job displacement in the household bankruptcy decision. Consistent with predicted filing behavior under persistent income shocks, I find that households in the NLSY are ...
Three Essays on Professional Advising.
(2008)
This dissertation considers three topics in professional advising and forecasting. Chapter 1 examines a principal's optimal contracting with experts. In an environment where experts have heterogeneous private signal ...
Essays on Integrating Product Design and Marketing Research.
(2009)
Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to ...
Efficient Regularized Solution Path Algorithms with Applications in Machine Learning and Data Mining.
(2008)
The topic of this dissertation is based on regularization methods and efficient solution path algorithms for machine learning and data mining.
The first essay proposes the doubly regularized support vector machine (DrSVM) ...
Accounting Fraud and Institutional Investors.
(2008)
This dissertation examines institutional investors' trading behavior in a sample of
322 firms alleged in Accounting, Auditing, and Enforcement Releases to have
manipulated their accounting earnings (hereafter fraud firms). ...
Three Essays on Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentives, and Government Expenditures.
(2008)
The first essay proposes potential benefits from monitoring as important determinants of institutional block holding, where the measures for monitoring benefits are identified from the information asymmetry problem. Using ...