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Factors Affecting Consumers' Responses to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.
(2008)
Pharmaceutical companies utilize Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) advertising to generate consumer discussions with physicians and increase prescriptions. The dissertation seeks to answer a question not fully addressed in the ...
Accounting Complexity and Misreporting: Manipulation or Mistake?
(2008)
I explore the effect of accounting complexity on misreporting using a setting of revenue restatements. I measure revenue recognition complexity using a factor score based on the number of words and revenue recognition ...
The Creation and Performance of Classification Schemes: Rating Systems in United States Broker-Dealers 1993-2000.
(2008)
In the past few years, organizational researchers have found a renewed interest in categorization and its consequences. Most research focuses on the consequences of categorization for the categorized objects, arguing that ...
Modeling International Asset Markets
(2008)
The three papers that comprise my dissertation study international asset markets. The first paper “What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?” shows that, despite their widespread use, oil futures prices are ...
Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United States.
(2008)
This dissertation focuses on the labor market experiences of immigrants in the United States. Using cross-state variation in the provision of Medicaid for immigrants arriving after the 1996 welfare reform, the second ...
Factors Influencing Demand in Major League Baseball: Steroid Policy, Discrimination, and Uncertainty of Outcome.
(2008)
The research presented in this dissertation represents three distinct types of issues influencing demand. Chapter II examines how a policy change affected revenues. The results show that there was a financial incentive to ...