Theses and Dissertations - Department of Economics, Finance & Legal Studies

Theses and Dissertations - Department of Economics, Finance & Legal Studies

 

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  • Zhang, Cuiyi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    This dissertation studies monetary policy during the financial crisis. Particularly, the three essays investigate the transmission channel and effect Discount Window (DW) and Term Auction Facility (TAF) as well as the ...
  • Jiao, Anqi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    This dissertation consists of three essays exploring the issues related to the political economy of finance and corporate finance. The first essay studies whether and how institutional investors exert influence in firms’ ...
  • Wang, Zhiyan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    This dissertation includes three chapters on corporate policy in workplace safety and health. The research seeks to understand three economic determinants of workplace safety and health — hedge fund activism, shareholder ...
  • Yang, Lukai (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    In the first essay, we study whether the increasingly large and concentrated ownership stakes by passive investors influence shareholders’ activism in the form of shareholder proposals. We find a positive association between ...
  • Islam, MD Towhidul (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    My dissertation aims at developing econometric tests to study nonstationarity in panel data allowing for cross-correlations. The first chapter examines excessive comovement and nonstationarity in commodity prices. Pindyck ...
  • Goulbourne, Rushaine Demar (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    Hurricanes pose a significant threat to life and property in coastal regions across the Caribbean and the United States. Within the United States, the south coast faces an annual threat in locations that house major economic ...
  • Zhong, Huizhen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    Experimental economics studies usually involve self-selection behaviors. In this dissertation, we explore the use of nonparametric approaches to estimate the treatment effect in these studies in the presence of sample ...
  • Xu, Luqi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    This dissertation consists of three essays on investments. The research seeks to contribute to the finance literature on hedge fund marketing, flows and performance, investor behavior and stock market participation and ...
  • Azimirahmatidoozandeh, Mehran (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    Sentiment is an important concept in economics and finance and has been the focus of many studies. Individual investors, professional investors, corporate managers, and households have sentiments on the economy and financial ...
  • Luo, Shikong (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
    Despite the importance of understanding the interaction between financial markets and the real economy, the indirect effects of secondary markets on corporate outcomes, however, are not well understood. This dissertation ...
  • Isomitdinov, Hasan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)
    This dissertation looks into comovements in the global macroeconomic aggregates across countries by applying Bayesian econometric models. The first essay provides new results on the significance and relative importance of ...
  • Lu, Yan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-05)
    The first essay extends the pioneering cointegration test of Johansen (1991) to allow for structural breaks in a cointegration system. Instead of using usual dummy variables, we utilize a Fourier function to control for ...
  • Brinkley, Nathan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)
    We conduct an experiment designed to elicit risk management behavior and study its effects on disaster risk mitigation and investment in self-protection. Resident homeowners in Tuscaloosa and Mobile, Alabama are given ...
  • Gao, Jiahong (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    The focus of my dissertation is to study how the industrial organization of the banking sector affects the risk-taking behavior of financial intermediaries and the degree of instability within the banking system. In the ...
  • Herndon, James Dennis (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    In the first essay, I examine the price behavior of consumer goods in the strategically vital country of Pakistan. Results show that prices converge both temporally and spatially. A wage-adjusted Consumer Price Index shows ...
  • Harrison, Andre (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    In the early 2000’s, there were large swings in capital flows across countries due to a worldwide savings glut. How did it affect investment across countries? Did it have an impact on the transmission channels of monetary ...
  • Goodnature, Mia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    Gentrification occurs when low-income areas transition into higher-income neighborhoods. Chapter 1 examines one possible driver of gentrification: the influx of same-sex couples into a community. Anecdotal evidence suggests ...
  • Hasani, Karim (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    The rise in global average temperature due to greenhouse gas emissions is a serious international concern. Yet, one of the important barriers for clean energy transition in the world is the existence of energy subsidies. ...
  • Wu, Fan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
    My dissertation on behavioral decision making contains two independent chapters, both adopting the methodology of developing theoretical model, running parameterized simulations, and testing equilibrium predictions or ...
  • Zhang, Wenqiao (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)
    This dissertation includes three essays on executive traits and various corporate consequences. In the first essay, we document a unique type of CEOs who are not always selfish, that is, altruistic CEOs. Specifically, we ...

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