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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 ...
Tax Burden and Compensation Practices in the Financial Service Industry.
(2007)
Although USA is the largest economic powerhouse in the world, the future of US economy may depend on international competitiveness of US firms. Competitiveness of American firms will be influenced by many different factors, ...
Essays on Corporate Ownership.
(2009)
Corporate ownership is one of the most important determinants of modern corporate behavior, affecting firm valuation and productivity. This thesis examines how share ownership influences, or is influenced by, important ...
Decision Making with Uncertainty: Applications to Queueing Theory and Market Research.
(2009)
In the first section, a firm with two servers must decide how to dynamically route arriving customers and allocate servers to two separate queues. The servers may work together or separately, and we provide insights into ...
An Examination of the Relationships Between Organizational Factors and Information Technology Satisfaction and Use: A Study of Undergraduate Faculty.
(2010)
This study used quantitative analyses to determine whether organizational factors affected information technology satisfaction and use. The participants in this study were limited to undergraduate faculty who taught at ...
Essays in Optimization of Commodity Procurement, Processing and Trade Operations.
(2011)
Managing commodity price uncertainty is an integral part of many firms' business process. Firms adopt a variety of operational strategies to manage this uncertainty, subject to operational constraints such as finite ...
Three Essays in Corporate Finance.
(2011)
The three essays in this dissertation examine issues related to corporate governance, investment, and financing. In the first essay, I analyze the consequences of CEO succession on board composition. I show that existing ...
Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school ...
Essays on Industrial Organization: Regulatory Uncertainty and Dynamic Decision-Making by Firms.
(2010)
This dissertation is composed of three papers concerned with how firms respond to uncertainty and dynamic interactions. These are areas that have long been important research topics among industrial economists. The ...