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An Exposition on CEO Traits that Affect Corporate Decision Making 

Covington, Thomas (2023-06-30)
Jensen & Meckling (1976) state that managers make decisions to maximize their personal utility, and their utility function differs from that of their firm. This possibility implies that a manager's characteristics that ...

Firm Hedging Decision and Its Value Implication 

JIN, HAN (2022-07-21)
In Chapter 1, we study the impact of increased transparency in the reporting of OCI on firms’ foreign currency cash flow hedging practice and the value relevance of this change. We find a reduced level of foreign currency ...

Modeling the Relation of Bank Governance and Risk Management 

Oprandy, Frank (2024-05-09)
The Great Recession (2008-2010) highlighted the complexity of risk management and the global impact of accumulated risk. The complexity of risk management in bank holding companies (BHC, or banks) often results in a lack ...

Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Institutional Investors 

Trinh, Tri (2019-07-02)  ETD File Embargoed
In chapter 1, we investigate the effects of activist investors on firms’ mergers and acquisitions. Using a comprehensive data set, we find that 138 out of 1,301 acquirers have activist investors comprising both hedge fund ...