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What do returns to acquiring firms tell us? Evidence from firms that make many acquisitions
(University of Georgia, 2002-08)We study shareholder returns for firms that acquired five or more public, private, and/or subsidiary targets within a short time period. Since the same bidder chooses different types of targets and methods of payment, any ... -
I'll always be the 10th dean of the Terry College of Business
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DeVore's $100,000 gift creates student managed investment fund
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Research and innovation: Study find surge in director pay following Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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Research and innovation: Firing Back analyzes how leaders rebound after career disasters
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Maymester course is a forensic whodunit
(University of Georgia, 2007) -
Watson spearheads global text project
(University of Georgia, 2007) -
One woman, three sports, four olympics…
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What caused the 1987 stock market crash and lessons for the 2008 crash
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Analyst disagreement and aggregate volatility risk
(University of Georgia, 2012-08-01)The paper explains why firms with high dispersion of analyst forecasts earn low future returns. These firms beat the CAPM in periods of increasing aggregate volatility and thereby provide a hedge against aggregate volatility ... -
Residency requirements and house prices: A natural experiment from Ohio
(University of Georgia, 2013-03-13)In the last 20 years many US cities have removed their residency requirements in response to municipal employee demands to choose where they live. We examine the effect of Ohio’s 2006 residency requirement ban on housing ... -
High short interest effect and aggregate volatility risk
(University of Georgia, 2013-07)We propose a risk-based firm-type explanation on why stocks of firms with high relative short interest (RSI) have lower future returns. We argue that these firms have negative alphas because they are a hedge against expected ... -
Job referral networks and the determination of earnings in local labor markets
(University of Georgia, 2013-08)Despite their documented importance in the labor market, little is known about how workers use social networks to find jobs and their resulting effect on earnings. I use geographically detailed U.S. employer-employee data ... -
Asymmetric roles of advertising and marketing capability in financial returns to news: Turning bad to good and good to great
(University of Georgia, 2013-08-23)"News reports that carry positive or negative sentiment about a firm influence the firm’s stock price performance. This study examines the role of firm controllable marketing factors, namely, advertising spending and ... -
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Stocks with extreme past returns: Lotteries or insurance?
(University of Georgia, 2013-10)The paper shows that lottery-like stocks are hedges against unexpected increases in market volatility. The loading on the aggregate volatility risk factor explains low returns to stocks with high maximum returns in the ... -
For-profit and traditional colleges: Institutional control, financial aid allocation, and net costs
(University of Georgia, 2013-10)I examine differences in the competitive behavior between for-profit and traditional universities by modeling how these institutions allocate financial aid packages and set net cost according to differing objective functions. ... -
Executive compensation-where have you been, and where are you going?
(University of Georgia, 2013-10-11)Executive compensation is an extensively researched and highly complex topic. This paper attempts to shed some light on the vast literature encompassing this topic. First, I provide background on the major works in executive ... -
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Firm complexity and post-earnings-announcement drift
(University of Georgia, 2013-11)The paper shows that the post-earnings-announcement drift is stronger for conglomerates, despite conglomerates being larger, more liquid, and more actively researched by investors. We attribute this finding to slower ...