Browsing by Author "Faculty of Business Programs"
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Accountants' ethical sensitivity
Triki, Anis (2012-04-03)O'Fallon and Butterfield (2005) in a review of the business ethics literature concluded that "ethical awareness" also called ethical sensitivity has received the least attention of the four steps in Rest's (1986) ethical ... -
Accounting for Human Rights Violations Risk: Conflict Minerals Mandatory Disclosures under the Dodd Frank Act
Chen, YijiaThis paper examines the equity market response to firms’ disclosure of human rights violation risk with regard to conflict mineral usage as required by Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act (the Act). This paper assesses the ... -
Alleviating Negative Spillover of a Brand-Harm Crisis: Sensegiving vs. Sensehiding in a Competitor’s Denial Response Strategy
YU, FangA brand-harm crisis not only affects the scandalized brand, but may also influence competing brands. Thus, marketers of competing brands need to develop response strategies for reducing negative spillover effects. This ... -
Anticipated Guilt and Ethical Consumption: The Moderating Role of Consumers’ Socially Responsible Consumption Behaviour
Spence, SabrinaRecent research in the marketing literature has indicated that, while consumers’ interests in ethical products are growing, demand for such products still remains weak. Previous research has indicated that anticipated ... -
The Application of the Genetic Algorithm in Promoting Stock Trading Performances
Wang, YanqiThis thesis joins the debate on utilizing the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to discover profitable trading strategies by providing an out-of-sample test of GA-based trading strategies on the CSI 300 index. Our results suggest ... -
Are Idiosyncratic Skewness and Idiosyncratic Kurtosis Priced?
Cao, XuThis thesis investigates the pricing effects of idiosyncratic moments. We document that idiosyncratic moments, namely idiosyncratic skewness and idiosyncratic kurtosis vary over time. If a factor/characteristic is priced, ... -
Are Idiosyncratic Skewness and Idiosyncratic Kurtosis Priced?
Cao, XuThis thesis investigates the pricing effects of idiosyncratic moments. We document that idiosyncratic moments, namely idiosyncratic skewness and idiosyncratic kurtosis vary over time. If a factor/characteristic is priced, ... -
ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF EMERGING MARKET MUTUAL FUNDS IN CANADA
Singh, Anterpreet (Brock University, 2014-07-23)Emerging markets have received wide attention from investors around the globe because of their return potential and risk diversification. This research examines the selection and timing performance of Canadian mutual funds ... -
Canadian investors and the discount on closed-end funds
Wang, Yue (St. Catharines, Ont. : Brock University, Dept. of Management, 2010., 2010-03-09)Small investors' sentiment has been proposed by behaviouralists to explain the existence and behavior of discount on closed-end funds (CEFD). The empirical tests of this sentiment hypothesis so far provide equivocal ... -
The carbon disclosure project, an evolution in international environmental corporate governance : motivations and determinants of market response to voluntary disclosures
Wegener, Matt (Brock University, 2010-10-27)This paper examines the factors associated with Canadian firms voluntarily disclosing climate change information through the Carbon Disclosure Project. Five hypotheses are presented to explain the ... -
CEO Compensation, Compensation Risk, and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Technology Firms
Yu, Zhimin (Jimmy) (Brock University, 2012-05-17)Literature suggests that CEOs of technology firms earn higher pay than CEOs of non-technology firms. I investigate whether compensation risk explains the difference in compensation between technology firms and non-technology ... -
COMPARING ASSET PRICING MODELS USING QUANTILE REGRESSIONS FOR DISTANCE-BASED METRICS
Wang, ZiwenThis thesis compares the performance of ten well-known asset-pricing models for cross-sectional returns of various portfolios from January 1967 to December 2016. We rely on the distance-based metrics as the primary performance ... -
Corporate Inversions and Long-Run Performance
Warraich, HamzaThis paper investigates the short-term and long-term stock performance of firms that undergo corporate inversions. The results show that the market response to the initial inversion announcement differs based on the type ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, And Managerial Risk-Taking
Pyo, Minyoung (Brock University, 2014-05-15)This dissertation investigates the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and managerial risk-taking, as well as the differences in governance structure that affect this association. Using a sample of ... -
Determinants of bankruptcy protection duration for Canadian firms
Xing, Dan (Brock University, 2011-05-17)The present thesis examines the determinants of the bankruptcy protection duration for Canadian firms. Using a sample of Canadian firms that filed for bankruptcy protection between the calendar ... -
Do pervasive economic factors explain momentum?
Chen, LemengThis thesis investigates the relationship between the profitability of momentum strategies and macroeconomic variables associated with the business cycles. We hypothesize that momentum is a risk factor that correlates with ... -
Does e-Government Always Fit? Moderating Role of Technology-Job Fit on Employee Acceptance of e-Government Technology.
Belkhiria, Fares; BelkhiriaE-government technologies have widely been praised by academics, policy makers and the public. However, despite that many governments heavily invest in these technologies, they still struggle to implement them into their ... -
Does zero lower bound policy affect managerial risk-taking and executive compensation?
Cai, YueThis study empirically examined whether the zero lower bound policy of 2008 promotes managerial risk-taking using samples of U.S. publicly traded firms. Based on the evidence documented in previous research, this policy ... -
DONATION DECISIONS: THE ROLES OF FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INFORMATION
Agyemang, IsaacThis paper investigates the impact of personal affinity toward a charity and information regarding financial management of potential recipient charitable organizations on decisions to donate. Using an experiment, the study ... -
Drivers and Barriers of Mobile Commerce: The Role of Consumers’ Personal Innovativeness
Anwar, AliMobile commerce (m-commerce) has experienced rapid growth in recent years, gaining importance in both academia and industry. However, extant literature has paid little attention to how m-commerce value is shaped, particularly ...