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The Role of Networks, Mentors and the Law in Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Leadership for Women with Children
(2013-12)
Having dependents is an important family status variable in the larger scheme of social differentiators that account for sex differences in careerrelated outcomes. In this study, we are interested in whether men or women ...
Dissecting Earnings Recognition Timeliness
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013-12)
We dissect the portion of stock price change of the fiscal year that is recognized in reported accounting earnings of the year. We call this portion earnings recognition timeliness (ERT). The emphasis in our dissection is ...
Essays on Law and Economics, Economics of Education, and Public Economics.
(2013)
The three chapters of this dissertation investigate three vastly different questions, bound together by the tools of economic analysis used to answer each. Chapter 1 is a theoretical model that looks at the behavior of ...
Financial Accounting Consequences of Temporary Tax Law: Evidence from the R&D Tax Credit.
(2013)
This paper investigates the extent to which extensions of a temporary tax law reduce market participants’ ability to predict and understand corporate earnings. Examining evidence from eight separate extensions of the R&D ...
The 90% Public Debt Threshold: The Rise & Fall of a Stylised Fact
(2013-05-01)
This paper analyses the original Reinhart-Rogoff dataset, made public by Herndon et al. (2013), on the basis of descriptive statistics and formal econometric testing.
Debt Ipo Waves, Investor Sentiment, Market Conditions, And Issue Quality
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-12)
We examine the aggregate volume of straight debt initial public offerings (DIPOs) from 1970 to 2010. We find that aggregate DIPO activities display wave patterns. Both the number and total proceeds of DIPOs vary substantially ...
Voluntary Disclosure and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from the 2005 Securities Offering Reform
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2013-12)
In 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission enacted the Securities Offering Reform (Reform), which relaxes “gun‐jumping” restrictions, thereby allowing firms to more freely disclose information before equity offerings. ...
Reactions to Shocks and Monetary Policy Regimes: Inflation Targeting Versus Flexible Currency Board in Ghana, South Africa and the WAEMU
(2013-11-01)
The aim of this paper is to examine the monetary policy actions through which the central banks in the Sub-Saharan African countries have searched to eliminate the negative impacts of the shocks facing their economies. We ...
Structural Reforms and Growth in Transition: A Meta-Analysis
(2013-08-01)
The present fiscal difficulties of many countries amplify the call for structural reforms. To provide stylized facts on how reforms worked in the past, we quantitatively review 60 studies estimating the relation between ...