Essays on idiosyncratic stock return volatility and bank lending incentives

This dissertation studies two topics in finance. The first topic is on the firm-level stock return volatility. The second one is on lending incentives of banks. Chapter 2 studies idiosyncratic stock return volatility in an investment model with convex capital adjustment costs. The model has two pred...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Song, Zhongzhi
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37609