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  • Three Essays on Credit Markets

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies the real effects of firms’ financing decisions as well as the economics consequences of bias in fair value prices of corporate bonds. The first chapter examines the impact of compliance with changes in mandated financial reporting on corporate financing and investment decisions. I employ the recent implementation...
    Subject:
    Accounting and Finance
    Creator:
    Kim, Doyeon
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_901879 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16057

  • Essays on Political Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...
    Keyword:
    Financial Crises, Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Voting
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Political science
    Creator:
    van Straelen, Hendrik Philip
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651

  • Essays in Mortgage Finance

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    Description:
    Mortgage brokers originate a large share of residential real estate lending. Exploiting state-level regulatory changes to local entry costs I am able to study the effect on credit quality and access. Using data from a major mortgage lender in the run up to the financial crisis I study how the...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Stephenson, Harvey Hugh
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14642 and etdadmin_upload_662464

  • Essays in Household Finance

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    Description:
    In this dissertation I study the effects of mortgage leverage policies. These policies have become widely used in recent years, both as a macroprudential tool and to protect consumers, yet their effects are still not well understood. In Chapter 1, I show that mortgage leverage rules implemented under the Dodd-Frank...
    Keyword:
    mortgages, entrepreneurship, financial regulation, and house prices
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Johnson, Stephanie Georgina
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662744 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14658

  • Essays on Innovation

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    Description:
    This dissertation explores two factors that affect innovation. The first factor studied is extrinsic, namely, the legal environment. The second factor is a factor of input into innovation - culture of the inventors. The first chapter studies the impact of a weakened patent environment on research investments. Departing from the...
    Keyword:
    Research and Development, Patent, Innovation, and Culture
    Subject:
    Intellectual property and Finance
    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Sridhar
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14622 and etdadmin_upload_662046

  • Essays in Corporate Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation is a wide-ranging study on real estate and the effect of financial constraints on economic activity. In the first chapter, I use granular data on home builder housing developments to provide new evidence that firms spread negative revenue shocks across projects via their internal capital markets. I analyze...
    Keyword:
    Corporate Finance, Housing, Financial Constraints, and Real Estate
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    van Straelen, Eileen Driscoll
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14646

  • Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation examines three distinct empirical questions in macroeconomics and finance. Chapter 1 studies the reasons why households file for bankruptcy. The debt relief households obtain in bankruptcy provides insurance against wealth losses, but also distorts borrower incentives to repay debt, discouraging lending. Understanding how bankruptcy filings respond to changes...
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Indarte, Alexandra Scarlett
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14631

  • Three Essays on Corporate Credit Ratings

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    Description:
    This dissertation explores our understanding of corporate credit ratings. In the first chapter I examine the issue of split ratings. S&P and Moody’s often differ in their initial ratings at bond issuance, producing what is referred to as a split rating. The consensus view in the literature and in practice...
    Subject:
    Accounting, Economics, and Finance
    Creator:
    Basu, Riddha Sattam
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14576 and etdadmin_upload_658729

  • Essays in Trade and Finance

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    Description:
    How do exporting firms react to changes in the cost of credit? To answer this question, we exploit an exogenous variation in banking regulation which increases the cost of financ- ing for exports in the European Union. Using a unique dataset which combines customs, firm-level, and credit registry data on...
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    da Costa Monteiro, Joao Miguel
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_981993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16495

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    Description:
    In Chapter 1, I analyze optimal capital structure using a model in which firms issue securities in order to (1) finance investments in operations and (2) recapitalize the firm. In this trade-off model, firms balance the tax benefits of debt against the costs of financial distress. Key to the analysis,...
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Hu, Jingxiong
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_986275 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16585