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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)Dividend payments to shareholders can create conflicts between debt and equity investors as these payments can expropriate wealth from bondholders to shareholders. However, dividend payments can also serve as a signal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Using various measures for technological innovation, I show that corporate investment and hiring go up following technological advancements. The effect is stronger for firms with more industry- or firm-level innovations, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)This paper examines how competition faced by firms affects asset risk and expected returns. Contrary to Hou and Robinson's (2006) findings, I find that cross-industry variation in competition, as measured by the concentration ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Using novel leverage and managerial ownership measures derived from public filings, this paper examines the role of managerial incentives in the use of leverage, in the context of hedge fund industry. I find a positive and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)I apply Bayesian methods to estimate parameters describing the relationship between firm earnings and unobserved common earnings shocks. I estimate a firm’s Bayesian cash-flow beta, which measures the comovement between ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Frivolous patent-infringement claims increase the cost of innovation for small businesses and force them to exit via premature and discounted acquisitions. This study investigates the effect of abusive patent-infringement ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This paper investigates the impact of investment banks’ political contributions on their underwriting business with local government officials. Using an original data set on municipal underwriting banks political contributions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)New equity shares are sold for raising capital via a primary seasoned equity offering (SEO). In their 2010 article, Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Ron Giammarino discovered an intriguing relationship between market ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)I empirically evaluate three theoretical views of whether and how winning a high-profile CEO award affects innovation decisions. The agency theory predicts that receiving an award will increase managerial entrenchment and ...
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