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Below is a list of dissertation titles from the last five years, in the following areas:
Accounting, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Management, Marketing, and Operations Management, Statistics, and Strategy

Accounting

"Market Valuation of Corporate Investments: Acquisitions Versus R&D and Capital Expenditures"
"Timing and Information Content of Insider Trades: Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002"
"The Structure of Option Repricings: Determinants and Consequences"
"The Impact of Non-Audit Services on Capital Markets"
"The Increased Importance of Earnings Announcements After Regulation FO: Evidence from Revisions of Analysts"
"Essays on Earnings Warnings"
"Voluntary Disclosure of Accruals in Preliminary Earnings Announcement and the Pricing of Accruals"
"Essays on Conservative Accounting and Growth:  Expected Earnings in Equity Valuation"
"Financial Information Environment of Loss Firms"
"Goodwill Write-Downs and the Adoption of SFAS No. 142"

Economics

"The Nexus between International Capital Markets and Real Economy: Two Essays"
"Essay in Decision Theory and Game Theory"
"Essays in Macroeconomics"
"The Presence of Bank Executives on Boards of Directors of Non-Financial Companies:  Effects on Firm Performance, Investment and Finance"
"Essays on Dynamic: Incentive Problems with Imperfect Information"
"Essays In Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance"
"Essays in Corporate Finance"
"Three Essays on Asymmetry and Overaction in International Asset Markets"

Finance

"The Role of Landing Banks in Corporate Governance"
"3 Essays In Fixed Income Modelineg"
"Essays on Household Heterogeneity"
"Determinants of Stock Return Distributions and Option Implied Volatility Smiles"
"Asymmetric Information and Capital Structure"
"Firms Interdependence Financial Policies, and Equity Returns"
"Essays on Asset Pricing and Microstructure"
"Essays in Corporate Finance/Financial Intermediaries"
"Essays on Liquidity and Asset Prices"
"Essays on Corporate Governance"
"Options Market Information and the Pricing of Corporate Bonds and Credit Default Swaps"
"Essays in Real Estate Finance Option Market Information and the Pricing of Corporate Bonds and Credit Default Swaps"
"Essays in Empirical Finance"
"Three Essays in Dynamic Portfolio Choice"
"Essays on Bank Debt and Bank Relationships"
"Asset Classes and Portfolio Choice"
"Essays in Financial Economics"
"Essays In Corporate Finance"
"Market Design, Trading Decisions, Price Formation, and Liquidity with Asymmetric Information"
"Essays on Corporate Control and Organization"
"The Use of Option Implied Volatility for Asset Pricing Tests"
"Market Frictions in Domestic and International Financial Markets"

Information Systems

"Generalized Approach to Customer Segmentation and Building Predictive Models of Customer Behavior"
"Network Structure in Electronic Commerce"
"Design for Quality: The Case of Open Source Software Development"
"Technology and Organizational Risks: How Organizations Use Technology to Counter or Cloak Their Vulnerabilities"
"First Impression  Formation in Electronic Profiles"
"Optimal and Equilibrium Pricing Metrics or Digital Goods"
"Deriving Value from Consumer Networks"
"Essays on Pricing in Electronic Markets and Competitive Mass Customization"
"Entry and Growth of Science Based Technology Firms Deconstructing the Process Of Resourse Accumulation"
"Probability Estimation in Multi-Relational Domains"
"Essays on Information Systems and Contracting"
"Two-Sided Networks: Implication for Internet Intermediaries and Technology Platforms"
"Essays on Digital Convergence"
"Identification Processes in Distributed Electronic Groups:  A Study of Voluntary Technical Support Groups on the Net"

Management (OB/OT)

"Reinterpreting Responsiveness: Exploring the Micro-Social Dynamics of Institutional Preocesses in Public Schools"
"How to Lose Friends but Make Others Think:  The Social Consequences of Expressing Emotional Ambivalence"
"Being Present but not Fully There: The Effect of Switching Work Tasks on Subsequent Task Engagement and Performance"
"Unmasking Face Time:  The Implications of Visibility Pressures at the Office"
"Work, Meaning And Identity: A Study Of Semi-Clandestine Factory Interactions"
"A Socio-Cognitive Model of the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Regions and the Influence of Venture Capital Availability on Regional Entrepreneurial Outcomes"
"Entrepreneurship and New Industry Emergence: The American Film Industry, 1896-1928"
"Cooperation Among Rivals in Pursuit of Institutional Change: Three Essays on the Antecedents, Process and Outcome"

Marketing

"The Role of Time Frames on Consumer Budgeting:  Why Feelings of Confidence Bias Budget Estimates"
"Modeling Dyadic Relationships and Preference Interdependence Between Consumers"
"Influence of Concrete and Abstract Regret on Choice Set Size Preference"
"Essays on Imperfect Rationality"
"The Role of Subjective Ease In Numerical Judgements: Implications for Pricing Cognition"
"Essays on Consumer Personalization and Channel Competition"
"Observing Outcome-Bias Through The Eyes of Consumers"
"Investigating the Strategic Pricing Behavior of Retailers"
"Effects of Communicating Emotions on Consumer Perceptions of Fairness"
"Using Capital Markets as Market Intelligence"

Operations Management

"Essays on Inventory Control and Scheduling in Deterministic and Stochastic Systems"
"Essays on Assortment Planning with Consumer-Driven Substitution, and Large-Scale Dynamic Programining"
"Mechanism Design Under Information Asymmetry in Supply Chain Management"
"Essays on Commodity Supply Contracts, Retail Supply Chams, and Economic Lot Scheduling"

Statistics

"Predictive Regression, Memory Parameter Propagation and Transaction-level Cointegration"
"An Investigation of Missing Data Methods for Classification Trees"
"Three Essays On Analysis of Duration-Driven Time Series"
"Forecasting Realized Volatility with Long Memory Time Series Models Using High Frequency Financial Data: Estimation, Prediction, Seasonal Adjustment and Computation"
"Hedging Using Malliavin Calculus"

Strategy

"Essays on Universal Banking"
"Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization"
"Does Prior Experience Really Pay?  Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Environments and Firm Performance"
"Essays on Corporate Capital Budgeting Decisions and Multinational Enterprises"
"Limitations to Inter-Organizational Knowledge Acquisition:  The Paradox of Corporate Venture Capital"
"Essays on Multinational R&D, Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Spillover"
"Country Risk:  Its Measurement and Impact on Foreign Direct Investment"

 

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