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Essays in corporate finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis consists of three essays covering topics in empirical corporate finance with an emphasis on banking relationships and its effect on liquidity constraints and business growth. In particular, it investigates the ...
Recommendations, credits and discounts : essays in behavioral decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Essay 1: Translation Errors in the Aggregation of Consumer Recommendations There has been a substantial increase of websites providing consumers with recommendations about products and services. These recommendations are ...
Order, authority & identity : a comparative study of ski patrollers and lift operators at a California ski resort
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
The objective of this thesis, resulting from two years of participant-observation fieldwork, is to explore the link between order, authority, and identity at a California ski resort. Through comparing how work gets done ...
Giraffes, religion and conflict : essays in behavioral decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Essay 1: Objective Scale Anchoring in Sequential Judgments We explore the scope and boundary conditions for anchoring when respondents render sequential judgments in the absence of an explicit comparative standard. We show ...
Corporate governance and insider trading
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
I investigate the relation between corporate governance and insider trading by corporate executives. Despite the general view that trade on non-public information adversely affects capital market participants, the impact ...
Investment dynamics and the timeliness properties of accounting numbers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This paper examines the properties of accounting numbers using a real investment framework that predicts asymmetric timeliness of both investment and its outcomes (i.e. sales, earnings and operating cash flows) even in the ...
How open should an open system be? : essays on mobile computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
"Systems" goods-such as computers, telecom networks, and automobiles-are made up of multiple components. This dissertation comprises three essays that study the decisions of system innovators in mobile computing to "open" ...
Three essays in finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis consists of three essays on asset pricing. Chapter 1 presents an equilibrium model to study the convergence trading of large hedge funds in segmented markets. The model provides an alternative explanation for ...
Considering the customer : determinants and impact of using technology on industry evolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This dissertation raises two questions: How do customers come to understand and use a technology? What is the influence of customers using a technology on industry evolution and competition? I use two historical cases to ...
Organizational identity, organizational capabilities, and the evolution of the multinational corporation : JTech's transmission systems business in the US
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
When a multinational corporation (MNC) internationalizes by establishing a new subsidiary, the subsidiary's evolution depends upon its acceptance within its host country environment, by its home country headquarters, by ...