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The use of intangible assets as loan collateral
This dissertation investigates the role of intangibles in reducing financing frictions in credit markets and examines whether intangible collateralization is associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by ...
Director Heterogeneity and its Impact on Board Effectiveness
In the first section of the dissertation, I examine whether boards that are heterogeneous along six dimensions--age, gender, race, tenure, rank, and function--perform their most critical tasks better than boards that are ...
Essays in Financial Accounting Standard Setting
This dissertation consists of three essays that explore the financial accounting standard setting process. In the first, I examine the extent to which the FASB's agenda determination is a function of the contemporaneous ...
Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting
This study examines how financial reporting practices have shaped private equity's claims to diversification. Despite research showing that private equity lacks unique economic exposure, private equity firms and trade ...