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Fear and the Housing Market
(2016-05-11)
In this dissertation, I use Google search frequency to construct a new measure of housing market-level sentiment and analyze its relation with housing prices. I term this measure as the Home Price Fear Index, or Fear Index ...
TWO ESSAYS ON HOW DO INVESTORS PERCEIVE THE OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND AN ESSAY ON MUTUAL FUND VOLATILITY DECOMPOSITION AND MANAGER SKILL
(2021-08-02)
This dissertation explores the rational investment hypothesis proposed by classical theories at the stock and portfolio (mutual fund) level. My first two essays focus on the risk associated with the composition of debt and ...