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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 ... -
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 ... -
DeVore's $100,000 gift creates student managed investment fund
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Does national flood insurance program participation induce housing development?
(University of Georgia, 2014-03-27)The objective of this study is provide estimates of the economic effects of the National Flood Insurance Program. In particular, we estimate the response of county-wide housing development in Florida to community-level ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Free to move? a network analytic approach for learning the limits to job mobility
(University of Georgia, 2014-04-22)Job mobility has many overlapping determinants that are hard to characterize solely on the basis of industry or occupation transitions. Workers may match with, and move to, particular jobs on the basis of match quality, ... -
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 ... -
I'll always be the 10th dean of the Terry College of Business
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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 ... -
The macroeconomic consequences of remittances
(University of Georgia, 2014-04-16)This paper examines the importance of borrowing constraints and the distribution of asset ownership in determining the e¤ects of remittance in ows. Using an open economy DSGE model where heterogeneous households face binding ... -
Maymester course is a forensic whodunit
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One woman, three sports, four olympics…
(University of Georgia, 2007) -
Research and innovation: Firing Back analyzes how leaders rebound after career disasters
(University of Georgia, 2007) -
Research and innovation: Study find surge in director pay following Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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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 ... -
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 ... -
UGA music business undesirable lyric website list
(University of Georgia, 2013-08-28) -
UGA music business undesirable lyric website list update
(University of Georgia, 2013-10-22)