Recent Dissertations
Below is a list of PhD dissertations from the last 10 years.
Accounting
| Sorah Park, "Excess Stock Option Compensation, Corporate Risk-Taking and Financial Reporting Behavior" (June, 2012). Committee: Eli Bartov (Chair), Kose John, Pepa Kraft |
| Aimee Shih, "Analyst Coverage Attributes and Benchmark Beating Strategies" (August, 2011). Committee: Eli Bartov (Chair), Christine Petrovits, Paul Zarowin |
| Jamie Diaz, "Intra-Audit Firm Office Changes, Audit Pricing, and Financial Reporting Quality" (July, 2011). Committee: Baruch Lev (Chair), Paul Zarowin, William Greene, Mary Billings |
| Alina Lerman, "Indvidual Investors' Attention to Accounting Information: Message Board Discussions" (November, 2010). Committee: Joshua Ronen (Chair), Joshua Livnat, Stephen Ryan |
| Richard Carrizosa, "The Economic Substance of Convertible Debt, Market Participants Assessments, and Debt Contracting" (May, 2010). Committee: Baruch Lev (Chair), Raghu Sundaran, Stephen Ryan |
| Karthik Balakrishnan, "Credit Market Conditions and Economy-wide Consequences of Financial Reporting Quality" (February, 2010). Committee: Eli Bartov (Chair), Mary Billings, Daniel Cohen, William Greene, Kose John |
| Kalin Kolev, "Do Investors Perceive Marking-To-Model As Marking-To-Myth? Early Evidence from FAS 157 Disclosure" (August, 2009). Committee: Baruch Lev (Chair), Daniel Cohen, William Greene, Stephen Ryan |
| Emanuel Zur, "The Power of Reputation: Hedge Fund Activist" (July, 2008). Committee: April Klein (Chair), Mary Billings, Stephen Ryan, Paul Zarowin, David Yermack |
| Francois Brochet, "Timing and Information Content of Insider Trades: Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002" (April, 2007). Committee: Joshua Ronen (Chair), William Greene, Stephen Ryan, David Yermack |
| Fabrizio Ferri, "The Structure of Option Repricings: Determinants and Consequences" (August, 2005). Committee: Joshua Ronen (Chair), William Greene, Kose John, April Klein |
| Seunghan Nam, "The Impact of Non-Audit Services on Capital Markets" (June, 2005). Committee: Joshua Ronen (Chair), Dan Gode, James Ohlson, William Greene |
| Ron Lazer, "The Increased Importance of Earnings Announcements After Regulation FO: Evidence from Revisions of Analysts Forecast and Pre-Announcements" (June, 2004). Committee: Joshua Livnat (Chair), Baruch Lev, Paul Zarowin, Haim Dov Fried |
| Xiangdong Tucker, "Essays on Earnings Warnings" (May, 2004) Committee: James Ohlson (Chair), William Greene, Carol Marquardt, Stephen Ryan, Paul Zarowin |
| Shai Levi, "Voluntary Disclosure of Accruals in Preliminary Earnings Announcement and the Pricing of Accruals" (April, 2004). Committee: Baruch Lev, (Chair), James Ohlson, Stephen Ryan |
| Merav Ozair, "Essays on Conservative Accounting and Growth: Expected Earnings in Equity Valuation" (December, 2003). Committee: James Ohlson (Chair), Eli Bartov, Kenton Yee |
| Yonca Ertimur, "Financial Information Environment of Loss Firms" (July, 2003). Committee: Eli Bartov (Chair), Kose John, James Ohlson, Carol Marquardt |
| Benjamin Segal, "Goodwill Write-Downs and the Adoption of SFAS No. 142" (June, 2003). Committee: Joshua Livnat (Chair), Stephen Ryan, Paul Zarowin |
Economics
| Lai Jiang, "The Welfare Effects of Bill Shock Regulation in Mobile Telecommunication Markets" (March, 2012). Committee: Luis Cabral and John Asker (Co-Chairs), Robin S. Lee, Allan Collard Wexler |
| Andrei Savochkin, "Essays in Decision Theory" (December, 2011). Committee: Adam Brandenburger (Chair), Efe A. Ok, Thomas J. Sargent, Joyee Deb |
| Anna Orlik, "Essays On Optimal Policies With Model Uncertainty" (May, 2011). Committee: Thomas Sargent (Chair), David Backus, Stanley Zin, Thomas Cooley |
| Hong Luo, "Markets for Ideas: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry" (March, 2011). Committee: Luis Cabral (Chair), Adam Brandenburger, John Asker, Robert Seamans |
| Hongwei Cai, "Three Essays on Efficiency of Chinese Stock Market and the Real Economy" (February, 2011). Committee: Lawrence White (Co-Chair), Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), William Greene |
| Matthew Grennan, "The Market for Medical Devices: Doctor Choice, Bargaining, and Price Discrimination" (April, 2010). Committee: Adam Brandenburger (Chair), John Asker, Collard-Wexler |
| Ali Yurukoglu, "Price Discrimination and Vertical Contracting in Multichannel Telvision" (April, 2009). Committee: Luis Cabral (Co-Chair), Ariel Pakes (Co-Chair) John Asker, Allen Collard-Wexler |
| Daniel Volberg, "The Nexus between International Capital Markets and Real Economy: Two Essays" (April, 2008). Committee: David Backus (Chair), Gian Luca Clementi, Paul Wachtel, Nouriel Roubini, |
| Konrad Grabiszewski, "Essay in Decision Theory and Game Theory" (March, 2008). Committee: Adam Brandenburger (Chair), David Pearce, Ennio Stacchetti |
| Frederic Lambert, "Essays in Macroeconomics" (September, 2007). Committee: David Backus (Chair), Thomas Sargent, Gian Luca Clemente, Gina Luca Violante |
| Elif Sisli, "The Presence of Bank Executives on Boards of Directors of Non-Financial Companies: Effects on Firm Performance, Investment and Finance" (May, 2007). Committee: Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), Lawrence White (Co-Chair), William Grene |
| Tomasz Piskorski, "Essays on Dynamic: Incentive Problems with Imperfect Information" (April, 2007). Committee: Thomas Sargent (Chair), Martin Schneider, Alex Tchistyi |
| Diana Knyazeva, "Essays In Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance" (March, 2007). Committee: Kose John (Co-Chair), Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Wolfenzon, David Yermack |
| Anzhela Knyazeva, "Essays in Corporate Finance" (March, 2007). Committee: Kose John (Co-Chair), Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Wolfenzon, David Yermack |
| David Ross, "Essays on Universal Banking" (March, 2007). Committee: Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), Anthony Saunders (Co-Chair), Kose John, Heski Bar-Isaac |
| Cristian Dezso, "Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization" (April, 2006). Committee: Luis Cabral (Chair), Heski Bar-Isaac, Adam Brandenburger, Nicholas Economides, Bernard Yeung |
| Abigail S. Hornstein, "Essays on Corporate Capital Budgeting Decisions and Multionational Enterprises" (April, 2005). Committee: Bernard Yeung (Chair), David Backus, William Greene, Lawrence White, Daniel Wolfenzon |
| Minyuan Zhao, "Essays on Multinational R&D, Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Spillover" (April, 2004). Committee: Thomas Cooley (Co-Chair), Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), David Backus, William Greene, Rachelle Sampson |
| Kate M. Kisselev, "Three Essays on Asymmetry and Overaction in International Asset Markets" (July, 2003). Committee: David Backus (Chair), Nouriel Roubini, Fabrizio Perri, Anthony Lynch |
Finance
| Michelle Zemel, "Information Content of Loan Growth in Banks" (April, 2012). Committee: Yakov Amihud (Chair), Anthony Saunders, Kose John |
| Justin Birru, "Essays in Behavioral Finance" (March, 2012). Committee: Jeffrey Wurgler (Chair), Stephen Figlewski, Andrea Frazzini |
| Esben Hedegaard, "Essays in Finance" (March, 2012). Committee: Lasse Pedersen (Chair), Robert J. Hodrick, Joel Hasbrouck, Marcin Kacperczyk |
| Farhang Farazamand, "Risk and Asset Returns" (October, 2011). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam,Viral Acharya, Rangarajan Sundaram |
| Xavier Giroud, "Soft Information and Investment: Evidence from Plant-Level Data" (March, 2011). Committee: Holger Mueller (Chair), Kose John, Philipp Schnabl, Daniel Wolfenzon |
| Jongsub Lee, "Corporate Finance in Family Business Groups" (May, 2010). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam (Chair),Rangarajan K. Sundaram, Kose John, Daniel Wolfenzon |
| Robert Tumarkin, "Essays on Executive Compensation and Behavior" (April, 2010). Committee: Jeffrey Wurgler, Xavier Gabaix, |
| Bryan Kelly, "Essays in Asset Pricing and Financial Econometrics" (April, 2010). Committee: Robert Engle (Chair), Alexander Ljungqvist, Xavier Gabaix, Stijin Van Nieuwerburgh |
| Joel Krasny, "Portfolio Choice and Asset Pricing in a Status Conscious Economy" (April, 2010). Committee: Rangarajan Sundaram (Chair), Viral Acharya, Yakov Amihud, Gabaix Xavier, Marti Gruber, Anthony Lynch |
| Jaewon Choi, "The Risk and Return Characteristics of a Firm's Assets" (June, 2009). Committee: Matthew Richardson (Chair), Robert Engle, Lasse Pedersen |
| Hae Jin Chung, "Essays on Corporate Govenance and Managerial Incentives" (May, 2009). Committee: Kose John (Chair), Jennifer Carpenter, Daniel Wolfenzon, Enrichetta Ravina |
| Lorenzo Francisco Naranjo, "Market Frictions, Momentum and Asset Pricing" (April, 2009). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam (Chair) Joel Hasbrouck, Stephen Brown, Menachem Brenner, Van Nieuwerburg |
| Yuanzhi Li, "Essays of Stocks Related to Chapter II Filings" (January, 2009). Committee: David Yermack (Co-Chair), Kose John (Co-Chair) Edward Altman |
| Rik Sen, "Essays on Executive Compensation" (December, 2008). Committee: David Yermack (Chair), Jennifer Carpenter, Holger Mueller, Menachem Brenner, Joel Hasbrouck |
| Amrut Jayant Nashikkar, "Three Essays on Short Sale Constraints in the Bond Market" (October, 2008). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam (Chair), Rangarajan Sundaram, Stephen Figlewski, Lasse Pedersen |
| Sadi Ozelge, "The Role of Landing Banks in Corporate Governance" (July, 2008). Committee: Anthony Saunders (Chair), Martin Gruber, Kose John, Holger Mueller |
| Anh Le, "3 Essays In Fixed Income Modeling" (June, 2007). Committee: Rangarajan Sundaram (Co-Chair), Kenneth Singleton (Co-Chair), Yakov Amihud, Jennifer Carpenter, Sanjiv Das, Robert Whitelaw |
| Jack Favilukis, "Essays on Household Heterogeneity" (June, 2007). Committee: Martin Lettau (Chair), Stijn Van Nieuwerburg, Sydney Ludvigson, Anthony Lynch, Tom Sargent |
| Abhishek Mistry, "Determinants of Stock Return Distributions and Option Implied Volatility Smiles" (June, 2007). Committee: Robert Whitelaw (Chair), Robert Engle, Stephen Figlewski |
| Nikolay Halov, "Asymmetric Information and Capital Structure" (May, 2007). Committee: Kose John (Chair), Heitor Almeida, Menachem Brenner |
| Radu Gabudean, "Firms Interdependence Financial Policies, and Equity Returns" (May, 2007). Committee: Rangarajan Sundaram (Chair), Heictor Almeida, Robert Whitelaw, Kose John, Yakov Amihud |
| Zheng Sun, "Essays on Asset Pricing and Microstructure" (March, 2007) Committee: Robert Whitelaw (Co-Chair), Joel Hasbrouck (Co-Chair), Robert Engle, Lasse Pedersen |
| Yang Lu, "Essays in Corporate Finance/Financial Intermediaries" (March, 2007). Committee: Anthony Saunders (Co-Chair), Alexander Ljungqvist (Co-Chair), Kose John, Daniel Wolfenzen |
| Prachi Deuskar, "Essays on Liquidity and Asset Prices" (February, 2007). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam (Chair), Joel Hasbrouck, Lasse Pedersen, Jeffrey Wurgler |
| Chenyang Wei, "Essays on Corporate Governance" (October, 2006). Committee: Kose John (Co-Chair), Matthew Richardson (Co-Chair), Edward Altman, Anthony Saunders, Daniel Wolfenzon, David Yermack |
| Yuanxing Dong, "Options Market Information and the Pricing of Corporate Bonds and Credit Default Swaps" (October, 2006). Committee: Robert Whitelaw (Chair), Robert Engle, Lasse Pedersen |
| Walter Boudry, "Essays in Real Estate Finance Option Market Information and the Pricing of Corporate Bonds and Credit Default Swaps" (August, 2006). Committee: Jarl Kallberg (Co-Chair), Crocker Liu (Co-Chair), Edward Altman, Stephen Brown |
| Jonathan Spitzer, "Essays in Empirical Finance" (May, 2006). Committee: Stephen Brown (Co-Chair), Edwin Elton (Co-Chair), Martin Gruber, Robert Whitelaw |
| Sinan Tan, "Three Essays in Dynamic Portfolio Choice" (April, 2006). Committee: Anthony Lynch (Chair), Joel Hasbrouck, Edwin Elton, Martin Gruber, Matthew Richardson, Lasse Pedersen |
| Victoria Ivashina, "Essays on Bank Debt and Bank Relationships" (April, 2006). Committee: Anthony Saunders (Co-Chair), Kose John (Co-Chair), Alexander Ljungqvist, Daniel Wolfenzon, Holger Mueller |
| Antonios Sangvinatsos, "Asset Classes and Portfolio Choice" (June, 2005). Committee: Robert Whitelaw (Chair), Edwin Elton, Matthew Richardson, Jessica Wachter, Martin Lettau |
| Olesya Grishchenko, "Essays in Financial Economics" (May, 2005). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam (Chair), Stephen Brown, Qiang Dai |
| Lubomir P. Litov, "Essays In Corporate Finance" (April, 2005). Committee: Kose John (Co-Chair), Bernard Yeung (Co-Chair), David Backus, Daniel Wolfenzon Jeffrey Wurgler |
| Lei Yu, "Market Design, Trading Decisions, Price Formation, and Liquidity with Asymmetric Information" (September, 2004). Committee: Robert Engle (Co-Chair), Joel Hasbrouck (Co-Chair) William Greene, Stephen Brown |
| Vinay Nair, "Essays on Corporate Control and Organization" (March, 2004). Committee: Kose John (Chair), Anthony Saunders, Rangarajan Sundaram, David Yermack, Daniel Wolfenzon, Heitor Almeida |
| Christopher Mann, "The Use of Option Implied Volatility for Asset Pricing Tests" (November, 2003). Committee: Stephen Figlewski (Chair), Robert Engle, Martin Gruber |
| Paolo Pasquariello, "Market Frictions in Domestic and International Financial Markets" (April, 2003). Committee: Marti Subrahmanyam (Chair), Joel Hasbrouck, Jarl Kallberg, William Allen, Lasse Pedersen, Menachem Brenner, Rangarajan Sundaram |
Information Systems
| Beibei Li, "Analyzing Consumer Behavior on Product Search Engines" (June, 2012). Committee: Anindya Ghose (Chair), Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Russell S. Winer |
| Nikolay Archak, "Understanding, Exploiting And Shaping Individual Behavior In Crowdsourcing Markets" (November, 2011). Committee: Panagiotis Ipeirotis (Chair), Anindya Ghose, Arun Sundararajan |
| Ning Su, "Three Essays on Chinese IT Service Industry: Capability Development, Internationalization Strategy, and Cultural Templates" (October, 2010). Committee: Natalia Levina (Chair), Dough Guthrie, Gino Cattani, Sinan Aral |
| Manuel Arriaga de Castro, "WEB 2.0 and User - Generated Content" (October, 2010). Committee: Natalia Levina (Chair), Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan, Anindya Ghose, Helen Nissenbaum |
| Akhmed Umyarov, "Improving Probabilistic Models for Recommender Systems with Aggregate Data" (June, 2010). Committee: Alexander Tuzhilin (Chair), Arun Sundararajan, Foster Provost |
| Rong Zheng, "Two Essays on Data Mining Approach to Customer Personalization" (July, 2009). Committee: Alexander Tuzhilin (Chair), Foster Provost, Anindya Ghose |
| Mingdi Xin, "From Product to Service-Oriented Strategies" (October, 2008). Committee: Roy Radner (Chair), Natalia Levina, Arun Sundararajan |
| Tianyi Jiang, "Generalized Approach to Customer Segmentation and Building Predictive Models of Customer Behavior" (April, 2008). Committee: Alexander Tuzhilin (Chair), Sha Yang, Yuxin Chen |
| Gal Oestreicher-Singer, "Network Structure in Electronic Commerce" (April, 2008). Committee: Arun Sundararajan (Chair), Vasant Dhar, Nicholas Economides, William Greene, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, |
| Caryn Conley, "Design for Quality: The Case of Open Source Software Development" (March, 2008). Committee: Lee Sproull (Chair), Natalia Levina, Panos Ipeirotis, Pat Shrout |
| Ekaterina Drozdova, "Technology and Organizational Risks: How Organizations Use Technology to Counter or Cloak Their Vulnerabilities" (March, 2008). Committee: Roy Radner (Co-Chair), Roger Dunbar (Co-Chair), Foster Provost |
| Sameer Bajaj, "First Impression Formation in Electronic Profiles" (October, 2007). Committee: Lee Sproull (Chair), Natalia Levine, J.S. Uleman |
| Ke-Wei Huang, "Optimal and Equilibrium Pricing Metrics or Digital Goods" (May, 2007). Committee: Roy Radner (Chair), Anindya Ghose, Joel Steckel, Arun Sundararajan |
| Shawndra Hill, "Deriving Value from Consumer Networks" (March, 2007). Committee: Foster Provost (Chair), Arun Sundararajan, Chris Volinsky |
| Zhong Wen, "Essays on Pricing in Electronic Markets and Competitive Mass Customization" (November, 2006). Committee: Bing Jing (Chair), Yannis Bakos, Arun Sundarajan |
| Miguel Angel Campo Rembado, "Entry and Growth of Science Based Technology Firms Deconstructing the Process Of Resourse Accumulation" (June, 2006). Committee: Arun Sundararajan (Chair), Roy Radner, Hector Almeida, Juan Alcacer |
| Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, "Essays on Information Systems and Contracting" (April, 2005). Committee: Arun Sundararajan (Chair), Roy Radner, Yannis Bakos, Mariagiovanna Baccara |
| Claudia Reisz, "Probability Estimation in Multi-Relational Domains" (March, 2005). Committee: Foster Provost (Chair), Vasant Dhar, Jeffrey Simonoff |
| Ravindra Nath Mantena, "Essays on Digital Convergence" (September, 2004). Committee: Arun Sundararajan (Chair), Roy Radner, Nicholas Economides |
| Evangelos Katsamakas, "Two-Sided Networks: Implication for Internet Intermediaries and Technology Platforms" (August, 2004). Committee: Yannis Bakos (Chair), Nicholas Economides, Bing Jing, Arun Sundararajan |
| Jae Yun Moon, "Identification Processes in Distributed Electronic Groups: A Study of Voluntary Technical Support Groups on the Net" (January, 2003). Committee: Lee Sproull (Chair), Michael Davern, Foster Provost, Batia Wiesenfeld |
Management
| Natalya Vinokurova, "The 2008 Mortgage Crisis as a Failure of Analogical Reasoning" (March, 2012). Committee: Adam Brandenburger (Chair), Richard Sylla, Giovanni Gavetti, Zur Shapira |
| Andrea Prado, "Essays on Industry Self-Regulation: Competition Among Environmental and Labor Certifications in the Cut-Flower Industry" (August, 2011). Committee: Adam Brandenburger and Andrew King (Co-Chairs), Melissa Schilling, Robert Salomon |
| Ji-Hyun Kim, "Essays On Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning" (April, 2011). Committee: Zur Shapira (Chair), Gino Cattani, Christina Fang, Robert Salomon, Sridhar Seshadri |
| Tina Opie, "On the Outskirts and Wanting In: How Peripherality Perceptions Shape Individual Engagement in Groups" (April, 2010). Committee: Elizabeth Morrison (Chair), Batia Wiesenfeld, Steven Blade, Rachel Ettenger |
| Justin Miller, "Inventing Hedge Funds: A Comparative Study of Institutional and Individual Entrepreneurship In Ambiguously Regulated Environments" (March, 2010). Committee: Doug Guthrie (Chair), Joe Porac, Stephen Brown |
| Ashton Hawk, "Firm Heterogeneity and Strategy Dynamics: The Antecedents and Consequences of Speed Capabilities" (January, 2010). Committee: Bernard Yeung, (Co-Chair), Goncalo Pocheco (Co-Chair), Luis Cabral, Juan Alcacer |
| Maritza Salazar, "Understanding the Facilitators and Barriers to Knowledge Creation: An Investigation of Interdisciplinary Teams in a Medical Context" (August, 2009). Committee: Theresa Lant (Chair), Aimee Kane, Zur Shapira |
| Nancy Lam, "Passing the Baton: Middle Managers as Conduits of Employee Improvement-Oriented Voice" (March, 2009). Committee: Francis Milliken (Chair), Joe Magee, Theresa Lant |
| Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, "Who Am I Now ? The Structure and Effects of Work Based Social Identities During Involuntary Employment Transitions" (March, 2009). Committee: Amy Wrzesniewski (Chair), Gina Dokko, Batia Wiesenfeld, Joseph Porac |
| Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell, "Reinterpreting Responsiveness: Exploring the Micro-Social Dynamics of Institutional Preocesses in Public Schools" (April, 2008). Committee: Stephen Mezias (Chair), Dorothy Shipps, Theresa Lant, Ray Reagans |
| Naomi Rothman, "How to Lose Friends but Make Others Think: The Social Consequences of Expressing Emotional Ambivalence" (March, 2008). Committee: Batia Wiesenfeld (Chair), Sally Blount-Lyon, Elizabeth Morrison, Steve Blader |
| Sophie Leroy, "Being Present but not Fully There: The Effect of Switching Work Tasks on Subsequent Task Engagement and Performance" (March, 2007). Committee: Sally Blount (Chair), Lee Sproull, Peter Goldwitzer, Batia Wiesenfeld |
| Linda Dunn-Jensen, "Unmasking Face Time: The Implications of Visibility Pressures at the Office" (April, 2006). Committee: Frances Milliken (Chair), Amy Wrzesniewski, Steve Blader |
| Susan Perkins, "Does Prior Experience Really Pay? Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Environments and Firm Performance" (April, 2006). Committee: Bernard Yeung (Chair), Juan Alcacer, Rachel Sampson, Goncalo Pacheco, Jeffrey Robinson |
| Michel Anteby, "Work, Meaning And Identity: A Study Of Semi-Clandestine Factory Interactions" (April, 2005). Committee: Amy Wrzesniewski (Chair), Erhard Friedberg, Joseph Porac, William Starbuck, Irene Thery, Florence Weber |
| Andac Arikan, "A Socio-Cognitive Model of the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Regions and the Influence of Venture Capital Availability on Regional Entrepreneurial Outcomes" (June, 2004). Committee: Theresa Lant (Chair), Steve Mezias, William Guth, Kent Miller |
| Gary (Gerson) Dushnitsky, "Limitations to Inter-Organizational Knowledge Acquisition: The Paradox of Corporate Venture Capital" (April, 2004). Committee: Myles Shaver (Co-Chair), Zur Shapira (Co-Chair) Ari Ginsburg, Bernard Yeung, Michael Lenox |
| Elizabeth Boyle, "Entrepreneurship and New Industry Emergence: The American Film Industry, 1896-1928" (December, 2003). Committee: Steve Mezias (Chair), Theresa Lant, Michelle Gittelman |
| Michael Barnett, "Cooperation Among Rivals in Pursuit of Institutional Change: Three Essays on the Antecedents, Process and Outcome" (August, 2003). Committee: William Starbuck (Chair), Andy King, Brian Uzzi |
| Mikelle Calhoun, "Country Risk: Its Measurement and Impact on Foreign Direct Investment" (June, 2003). Committee: William Guth (Chair), Roger Dunbar, William Starbuck |
| Patricia Hewlin, "And the Award for Best Actor Goes to.. :Facades of Conformity in Organizational Settings" (April, 2003). Committee: Elizabeth Morrison (Chair), Batia Wiesenfeld, Amy Wrzesniewski |
| Daniel Beunza Ibanez, "The Social Qualities of Quantitative Finance" (April, 2003). Committee: William Guth (Chair), David Stark, Raghu Garud |
Marketing
| Mantian Hu, "Word-of-Mouth, Social Learning, and Network Effects as Mechanisms of Social Contagion" (March, 2012). Committee: Russell Winer (Chair), Shai Yang, Tulin Erdem, Daniel Yu |
| Wenbo Wang, "Essays on Lifestyle Formation and Pro-social Behavior" (March, 2012). Committee: Yuxin Chen and Russell Winer (Co-Chairs), Sam Hui |
| Sue Ryung Chang, "Learning Dynamics in Product Relaunch" (March 2012). Committee: Tulin Erdem (Chair), Vishal Singh, Peter Golder, Yesim Orhun, Daniel Xu |
| Rachel Shacham, "Essays on the Econometric Analysis of Difficult To Observe Phenomena" (February, 2011). Committee: Peter Golder (Co-Chair), Tulin Erdem, (Co-Chair), Russ Winer |
| Edith Scope-Shalev, "How Low Can I Go: The Comparative Effect of Low status Users on Buying Intentions" (February, 2010). Committee: Geeta Menon, Yaacov Trope, Justin Kruger, Tom Meyvis |
| Eleanor Kyung, "Malleable Memories: The Role of Construal Mindsets in Reconstructing Past Events" (February, 2010). Committee: Geeta Menon (Chair), Vicki Morwitz, Amitav Chakravarti, Tom Meyvis, Yaacov Trope |
| Aronte Bennett, "The Influence of Motivated Reasoning on the Processing of Corporate Social Responsibility Information" (December, 2009). Committee: Durairaj Maheswaran (Chair), Amitav Chakravarti, Barry Cohen, Tom Meyvis |
| Jeff Galak, "Predicting, Experiencing, and Reducing Hedonic Adaptation" (April, 2009). Committee: Justin Kruger (Chair), Tom Meyvis, Leif Nelson |
| Sherif Nasser, "Contemporary Issues in Media & Entertainment" (June, 2008). Committee: Eitan Muller (Co-Chair), Yuxin Chen (Co-Chair) Nicholas Economides, Tulin Erdim, Joel Steckel |
| Pragya Mathur, "Brand Alliance: An Information Processing Perspective" (April, 2008). Committee: Durairaj Maheswaran (Chair), |
| Munevver Ulkumen, "The Role of Time Frames on Consumer Budgeting: Why Feelings of Confidence Bias Budget Estimates" (April, 2007). Committee: Vicki Morwitz (Chair), Tom Meyvis, Amitar Chakravarti |
| Vishal Narayan, "Modeling Dyadic Relationships and Preference Interdependence Between Consumers" (March, 2007). Committee: Russ Winer (Co-Chair), Sha Yang (Co-Chair), William Greene |
| Cenk Bulbul, "Influence of Concrete and Abstract Regret on Choice Set Size Preference" (January, 2007). Committee: Tom Meyvis (Chair), Geeta Menon, Yaacov Trope, Leif Nelson, Amitav Chakravarti |
| Zheyin Gu, "Essays on Imperfect Rationality" (January, 2007). Committee: Yuxin Chen (Chair), Joel Steckel, Sha Yang, Anindya Ghose |
| Manoj Thomas, "The Role of Subjective Ease In Numerical Judgements: Implications for Pricing Cognition" (March, 2006). Committee: Geeta Menon (Co-Chair), Vickie Morwitz ( Co-Chair), Tom Meyvis, Yaacov Trope, Russell Winer, Amitav Chakravarti |
| Joseph Pancras, "Essays on Consumer Personalization and Channel Competition" (August, 2005). Committee: Joel Steckel (Co-Chair), K. Sudhir (Co-Chair), Russ Winer, Yuxin Chen |
| Nidhi Agrawal, "Observing Outcome-Bias Through The Eyes of Consumers" (June, 2005). Committee: Durairaj Maheswaran (Co-Chair), Geta Menon (Co-Chair) Tom Meyvis, Leif Nelson, Yaacov Trope |
| Sergio Meza, "Investigating the Strategic Pricing Behavior of Retailers" (July, 2004). Committee: Joel Steckel (Co-Chair), K. Sudir (Co-Chair), Yuxin Chen, Peter Golder, Penelope Goldberg |
| Sooyeon Lee, "Effects of Communicating Emotions on Consumer Perceptions of Fairness" (April, 2004). Committee: Kim Corfman (Chair), Tom Meyvis, Geeta Menon, Lisa Bolton, Tom Tyler |
| Dmitri Markvitich, "Using Capital Markets as Market Intelligence" (April, 2004). Committee: Joel Steckel (Chair), Peter Golder, Bernard Yeung |
| Sucharita Chandran, "Effects of Participative Pricing on Consumers' Cognitions and Actions - A Goal Theoretic Perspective" (April, 2003). Committee: Vicki Morwitz (Chair), Erif Greenleaf, Geeta Menon, Tom Meyvis, Peter Goldwitzer |
Operations
| Xing Hu, "Towards the Theory of Efficient Resource Sharing in Business Alliances" (December, 2011). Committee: Rene Caldentey (Chair), Robert Shumsky, Gustavo Vulcavo |
| Nikolay Osadchiy, "Forecasting and Revenue Management in Retailing" (April, 2010). Committee: Sridhar Seshadri (Chair), Vishal Gaur, Gustavo Vulcano, Sridhar Seshadri |
| Dana Popescu, "Revenue Management with Forward and Spot Trading" (July, 2009). Committee: Sridhar Seshadri (Chair), Arun Sundararajan, Ganesh Janakiraman, Gustavo Vulcano |
| Andrey Torzhkov, "Modeling and Managing Congested Systems with Customers Sensitive to Past Delays" (September, 2008). Committee: Sridhar Seshadri, Joshua Reed, Mor Armony |
| Anshoul Sheopuri, "Contractural and Operational Issues in Sourcing Decisions" (September, 2007). Committee: Ganesh Janakiraman (Chair), Sridhar Seshadri, Eitan Zemel |
| Vladimir Krasik, "Essays on Inventory Control and Scheduling in Deterministic and Stochastic Systems" (August, 2007). Committee: Michael Pinedo (Chair), Jiawei Zhang, Victor Araman |
| Dorothee Honhon, "Essays on Assortment Planning with Consumer-Driven Substitution, and Large-Scale Dynamic Programining" (May, 2006). Committee: Vishal Gaur (Chair), Sridhar Seshadri, Michael Pinedo |
| Ying-Ju Chen, "Mechanism Design Under Information Asymmetry in Supply Chain Management" (May, 2006). Committee: Sridhar Seshadri (Chair), Constantinos Maglaras, Gustavo Vulcano, Eitan Zemel |
| Cagri Haksoz, "Essays on Commodity Supply Contracts, Retail Supply Chams, and Economic Lot Scheduling" (July, 2004). Committee: Sridhar Seshadri (Co-Chair), Michael Pinedo (Co-Chair), Vishal Gaur |
Statistics
| Rebecca Sela, "Three Essays in Econometrics Multivariate Long Memory Time Sense and Applying Regression Trees to Longitudinal Data" (March, 2010). Committee: Clifford Hurvich (Co-Chair) Jeffrey Simonoff (Co-Chair)William Greene, Robert Engle, Gary Simon |
| Weijian Liang, "Statistical Modeling of Corporate Bond Defaults" (May, 2008). Committee: Peter Lakner (Co-Chair), Halina Frydman (Co-Chair), Stephen Figlewski, Clifford Hurvich, Gary Simon |
| Yi Wang, "Predictive Regression, Memory Parameter Propagation and Transaction-level Cointegration" (April, 2008). Committee: Clifford Hurvich (Chair), Jeffrey Simonoff, Robert Engle, Jushan Bai |
| Yufeng Ding, "An Investigation of Missing Data Methods for Classification Trees" (November, 2007). Committee: Jeffrey Simonoff (Chair), Clifford Hurvich, Gary Simon, Foster Provpst |
| Meng-Chen Hsieh, "Three Essays On Analysis of Duration-Driven Time Series" (December, 2005). Committee: Clifford Hurvich (Chair), Rohit Deo, Jeffrey Simonoff, Robert Engle, Joel Hasbrouck |
| Yi Lu, "Forecasting Realized Volatility with Long Memory Time Series Models Using High Frequency Financial Data: Estimation, Prediction, Seasonal Adjustment and Computation" (October, 2004). Committee: Clifford Hurvich, (Co-Chair), Rohit Deo (Co-Chair), Robert Engle, Jeffrey Simonoff |
| Lan Nygren, "Hedging Using Malliavin Calculus" (May, 2003). Committee: Peter Lakner (Chair), Halina Frydman, Gary Simon, Rangarajan Sundaram |
| Merrill Heddy, "The Use of Option Implied Volatility for Asset Pricing Tests" (March, 2003). Committee: Peter Lakner (Chair), Clifford Hurvich, Halina Frydman, Rangarajan Sundaram |
