Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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Essays on Corporate Finance
(University of ExeterFinance, 2018-01-18)This thesis examines the impact of sources of financing on the performance of M&As and the value of firm diversification. Chapter Three examines how sources of financing between corporate cash holdings and bank lines of ... -
Essays on Corporate Risk Management
(University of ExeterBusiness School, 2013-10-14)This thesis examines operational and financial implications of jet fuel risk management. The first element of the thesis use global sample of 54 airline companies from 2000 to 2012, resulting in 411 firm-year observations. ... -
Essays on Earnings Strings in Capital Markets
(University of ExeterAccounting, 2016-10-25)This study is motivated by the observed valuation premiums given to firms that meet or beat earnings thresholds. The extensive literature on meeting or beating earnings benchmarks documents that firms tend to report profits, ... -
Essays on Economic Growth, Public Expenditure and Telecommunication Infrastructure
(University of ExeterEconomics, 2016-11-23)This thesis consists of four studies, presented in three main essays, empirically linking economic growth to public expenditure and telecommunication infrastructure using four different sample groups of countries with data ... -
Essays on Fiscal Policy and Political Economy
(University of ExeterEconomics, 2013-06-12)This thesis consists of three essays concerned with endogenous fiscal policy and its interaction with political economy constraints. The first essay presented in Chapter 2 examines the cyclical behavior of endogenous ... -
Essays on Insider Trading and Financial Reporting Discretion
(University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter Business School - Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment, 2014-10-17)This thesis presents three empirical studies investigating the capital market effects of the interplay between financial reporting discretion and insider trading. The empirical studies contribute to the emerging accounting ... -
Essays on Interaction Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy
(University of ExeterEconomics, 2013-10-03)This thesis consists of three essays on the discretionary interactions of fiscal and monetary policy authorities when they stabilise a single economy against shocks in the dynamic setting. In the first essay, I investigate ... -
Essays on Liquidity Risk and Banking Fragility, Dynamic Depositor Discipline and Information Disclosure: An Empirical Analysis on the East Asian Banks
(University of ExeterBusiness School, 2012-04-27)This thesis contains three empirical essays in banking. The empirical analyses focus on the role of information in banking. This will be done by analyzing the effectiveness of three types of signals that are sent by banks. ... -
Essays on long memory time series and fractional cointegration
(University of ExeterThe Business School, 2013-04-30)The dissertation considers an indirect approach for the estimation of the cointegrating parameters, in the sense that the estimators are jointly constructed along with estimating other nuisance parameters. This approach ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy
(University of ExeterEconomics, 2012-08-06)This thesis consists of three essays on optimal monetary policy. In the first essay I study time-consistent monetary policy in an small open economy model with incomplete financial markets. I demonstrate the existence of ... -
Essays on Pension De-risking Strategies
(University of ExeterAccounting, 2017-06-07)This thesis includes three empirical chapters exploring how a sample of UK firms with different financial and non-financial characteristics adopt pension derisking strategies. These chapters address firms’ hedging needs, ... -
Essays on redistributive policies and household finance with heterogeneous agents
(University of ExeterDepartment of Economics, 2013-01-08)The overall objective of the thesis is to investigate needs and incentives of all income/wealth groups in order to explore ways and means to remedy the excessive economic inequality. A closer examination of individual ... -
Essays on risk, stock return volatility and R&D intensity
(University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter Business School, Department of Finance, 2015-12-01)This thesis consists of three empirical essays studying the capital market implications of the accounting for R&D costs. The first empirical study (Chapter 2) re-visits the debate over the positive R&D-returns relation. ... -
Essays on Stock Liquidity
(University of ExeterBusiness School, 2017-07-11)This thesis consists of three main empirical chapters on the effect of stock liquidity on exchange markets. The first (Chapter 2) investigates the pricing ability of an illiquidity measure, namely the Amihud measure ... -
Essays on Stock Return Predictability and Corporate Payout Policy
(University of ExeterXfi Centre for Finance and Investment, 2014-09-01)This dissertation studies the effect of the changes in corporate dividend policy on the predictability of stock returns. The first two chapters re-visit the question of what drives stock returns after controlling for these ... -
Essays on Taxation, Economic Growth and Fluctuations
(University of ExeterEconomics, 2013-09-27)The first chapter studies the stabilizing role of fiscal policy. We particularly emphasize the role played by the assumption on the use of public expenditure. We find that if wasteful government expenditure is assumed in ... -
Essays on the Economic Consequences of International Pension Accounting Standard IAS19
(University of ExeterAccounting Department, 2017-05-17)This thesis examines the economic consequences of the adoption of international pension accounting standard IAS19 Revised (IAS19R) on pension asset allocation decisions by applying a difference-in-differences with propensity ... -
Essays On The Value Premium
(University of ExeterFinance, 2013-11-29)Value premium, which is the return difference between value and growth stocks, is one of the most important asset pricing anomalies. Value stocks tend to have more returns than growth stocks. And though, researchers agree ... -
Essays on Trading Strategies and Long Memory
(University of ExeterEconomics, 2012-02-09)Present value based asset pricing models are explored empirically in this thesis. Three contributions are made. First, it is shown that a market timing strategy may be implemented in an excessively volatile market such as ... -
Establishing the mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus, as a model species for developmental biology
(University of ExeterBiosciences, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, 2012-11-22)The mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus, has the potential of becoming a strong model organism for a range of biological disciplines thanks to its ability to self-fertilise, a process only known to occur in ...