Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Jacob, Joshy"

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    • Change point, prediction and classification with functional data 

      Rathi, Poonam (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      Functional data consists of a collection of curves (or functions) defined on a finite subset of some interval. In this dissertation, we discuss change point, prediction and classification problems with functional data. ...

    • Essay 1: Audit committee members’ attendance and its impact on earnings management. Essay 2: Exogenously reduced busyness and its impact on earnings management 

      Singh, Preet Deep (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Essay 1: Audit committee members’ attendance and its impact on earnings management Prior accounting literature examines the impact of the characteristics of Audit Committee (AC), such as composition, diligence, the presence ...

    • Essays on audit committee and board composition 

      Poonawala, Sakina H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The first essay examines audit committee composition change with respect to new members joining. Firms are argued to maintain audit committee composition as per their monitoring needs (Krishnan and Lee, 2009) and independent ...

    • Essays on behavioural finance 

      Bansal, Avijit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
      We present two essays on behavioural finance in this dissertation. The first essay examines the influence of price-path, particularly the ‘non-straight’ price-path, on several aspects of investor behaviour. We compute ...

    • Essays on financial intermediation 

      Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      We present three essays on financial intermediation in this dissertation. The first essay examines the credit risk choices of the public sector banks (PSBs) in India with novel data that identifies borrowers with their ...

    • Essays on managerial discretion 

      Sharma, Abhinav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "This thesis examines discretionary managerial decisions and investigates their association with the behavioral biases of market participants. We study managerial discretion in the context of repricing employee stock ...

    • Essays on share repurchases 

      Saurabh, Suman (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      This dissertation comprises three essays, which empirically examine the influence of investor and managerial irrationality on open market repurchases (OMRs) in the US market. In the first essay, we examine the systematic ...

    • Essays on shareholder voting 

      Purohit, Siddharth Mahendra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "Shareholder ratification of corporate actions is an important part of the corporate governance process. In this thesis, I examine the determinants of shareholder dissent in the context of three actions proposed for ...

    • Essays on the role of information in financial markets 

      Srivastava, Pranjal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "This Ph.D. dissertation comprises three essays on the role of information in financial markets. The first essay examines the impact of the introduction of a minimum buyback mandate in open market repurchases. In line with ...

    • Impact of regulation change on earnings quality in India 

      Gupta, Monika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the impact of regulation change on earnings quality. This work is organized into two distinct chapters. The first chapter examines the impact of auditor appointment ...

    • Non-euclidean analytics: inference, learning and applications 

      Majumdar, Sourav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "Several classical statistical approaches assume that the data lives in a Euclidean space. However, such methods do not apply to non-Euclidean data. In this dissertation, we develop methods and theory to analyse certain ...

    • A Study of Investor Sentiment in the Indian Market. 

      Gupta, Nilesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Market sentiment has always been given importance by investors in their decisions. Classical finance theories based on investor rationality, however, largely ignored the possible role of market sentiment in asset pricing. ...