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An Empirical Investigation into the Value of Credit Lines

Description: Access to adequate liquidity to finance future investments is an essential element of financial management. The two main questions that this dissertation attempts to answer are (i) what is the net valuation effect of LoC? and (ii) if LoC create value, what are the sources of this value? To answer these questions, I constructed a sample of 85,232 firm-years spanning from 1993 to 2016, with credit line data obtained from Capital IQ and Bloomberg. I investigated the valuation effects of LoC with a… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Al-Ghamdi, Saleh A.
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Enhancing the Efficacy of Predictive Analytical Modeling in Operational Management Decision Making

Description: In this work, we focus on enhancing the efficacy of predictive modeling in operational management decision making in two different settings: Essay 1 focuses on demand forecasting for the companies and the second study utilizes longitudinal data to analyze the illicit drug seizure and overdose deaths in the United States. In Essay 1, we utilize an operational system (newsvendor model) to evaluate the forecast method outcome and provide guidelines for forecast method (the exponential smoothing m… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Najmizadehbaghini, Hossein
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From Property to Person: Understanding the Mediating Role of Control on Ovulation in the Female Consumer Experience

Description: My aim is to design a research program that emphasizes inclusivity through empiricism rather than anecdotes and benevolent sexism. To accomplish this goal, I review and build on the work assessing the influence of fertility in the female consumer experience (FCE). Fertility, especially menstruation, has been used anecdotally for too long. This research was designed to address the gap in knowledge around the way in which women perceive advertisements. More specifically, the role fertility plays … more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Njoroge, Lydia
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Hybrid Models in Automobile Insurance: Technology Adoption and Customer Relations

Description: Customer relationship management (CRM), a primary activity in the business value chain to relate to the customer, involves solicitation, analysis, and the use of the knowledge about the customer to provide goods and services through effective and efficient methods. It is a wise strategy and source of competitive advantage for customer behavior understanding and business performance management. The use of information technology (IT) in CRM allows companies to simplify their processes, to integra… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Tian, Xiaoguang
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Impact of Market State on Momentum Portfolio Risk and Performance: A Risk-Based Explanation

Description: The momentum puzzle, i.e., stocks that have performed better in the past tend to perform better in the future, has been a constant challenge to classic finance theory. Prior research has failed to provide valid risk-based explanations because winner portfolios do not exhibit higher risk characteristics. Without a convincing risk explanation, the persistence of momentum profit is a violation of the efficient market hypothesis. Today, the momentum puzzle remains one of the very few major anomalie… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Ren, He
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Small world, not small competition: does spatial distance among audit partners matter?

Description: The purpose of my dissertation is to examine whether competition among audit partners affects audit quality. While prior research on audit market competition focuses on audit firm-level or office-level analyses, I argue that audit partners, as the primary decision makers in providing audit services, are likely to engage in competitive actions in the audit market. Further, I use spatial distance among audit partners to measure partner-level competition. I conjecture that spatial distance could b… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Wu, Da
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Social Class and Consumer Choice

Description: Marketing research is lacking in the study of how SES influences consumption choices beyond access to purely economic resources, which merely represent purchasing power without explaining consumer preference. The first essay of this dissertation addresses this gap by examining an understudied social resource known as cultural capital—internalized knowledge, skills and behaviors reflecting cultural competence—that can influence the types of products consumers choose. The second essay examines lo… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Mas, Erick M
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The Use of Data Analytics in Internal Audit to Improve Decision-Making: An Investigation of Data Visualizations and Data Source

Description: The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how managers' judgments from an internal auditor's recommendation are influenced by some aspects of newer data sources and the related visualizations. This study specifically examined how managers' judgments from an internal auditor's recommendation are influenced by the (1) supportiveness of non-financial data with the internal auditor's recommendation and (2) evaluability of visual representations for non-financial data used to communicate the r… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Seymore, Megan
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