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This dissertation is comprised of two essays that focus on the role of disposition effect to market reactions in seasoned equity offerings and the importance of considering the dynamics of reference price in disposition effect. The first...
This dissertation explores two different kinds of investor preferences for stocks: geographicpreference and skewness preference. In the first essay titled "Faster than Flying: High-Speed Rail, Investors, and Firms", we study the effects...
Chapter One examines the role of activist investors in firms’ decisions to conduct open market share repurchases. Compared with firms making ordinary share repurchases, firms making activist-involved repurchases have more cash holdings, ...
This dissertation explores two chapters of 13D filings. Chapter one examines the impact of activism by non-financial corporations. I find that the market reacts more favorably to corporate activism relative to non-corporate activism....
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