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Economic, Environmental and Political Impacts in Crude Oil Price Volatility Flying the Competitive Skies: the Effect of US Legacy Airline Mergers on Ticket Prices and Sales Dis-Incentive Distribution Rights: Examination of High Splits and Pervasive Relationship with Cost of Capital in Partnerships Is it Easy Being Green? The Impact of the Greek Crisis on Green Municipal Bonds Compared to Traditional Municipal Bonds Nakamoto Meets Markowitz: Analyzing Bitcoin In the Context of Modern Portfolio Theory Decrypting Crypto: Analyzing Trust, Corruption and the Formation of Speculative Bubbles in the Bitcoin Market Bitcoin: Financial Instrument or Speculative asset? Analysis of Bitcoin in the Foreign Exchange Market "Virtually" Not a Currency: An Analysis of Bitcoin's Price as Futures Trading Drives It into the Rational Market Auction Cycles in the U.S. Treasury Bond Market: Phenomena and Causes Approximate Dynamic Programming: Designing An Economically Optimal Fleet Of Electric Self-Driving Cars Maximize Safety, Minimize Cost: A Long Term Solution to Syrian Refugee Crisis through Optimization Bids with Twists: First-Price, Sealed-Bid Auctions with External Valuations and Bid Ceilings S.O.X. and Stocks: Cross-Listing as a Substitute for Corporate Governance The Impact of Financial Stocks on Managerial Overconfidence and Investment Sensitivity Financial Innovation & Disruption: Effect of Investment Flows to Exchange-Traded Funds on Flows to Mutual Fund Industry Testing Whether Leverage Constraints Explain The Low Beta Anomaly Tell me what you think: Incorporating insights about consumer behavior into predictions of economic activity Chinese Capital Controls: A Historical Analysis and Recommendation for Capital Control Reduction Vector Autoregressive Modeling of Interest Rate Shocks on Bank Balance Sheets: A Comparative Study Private Equity In Emerging Markets: Comparing The Unique Cases Of India and Pakistan A Tale of Six Factors: An Empirical Analysis on the Tail Distributions of Factor Returns Stock Markets & Cattle Trading: New Ways to Grow Pastoral Cattle, Improve Cattle Ranch Security, Enhance Conservation Are Higher-Order Factors Useful in Pricing The Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns? Predicting the Price of Art The Effect of the Affordable Care Act's 2.3% Excise Tax on the Medical Device Industry The Catalonian Independence Movement: An Economic and Legal Analysis of the Feasibility of Secession Quantitative Benchmarks: An Algorithmic Evaluation of Mutual Fund Manager Skill and Decision-Making WhatsApp: From Social Network to Global Payments Bet sizing on variable return investments Volatility-of-Volatility: Dynamic Models and Hedging Strategies The Underinsurance of Catastrophe Risk: Analysis of Supply Side Effects in The Catastrophe Bond Market Empirical analysis of Effect of Sub-Divisions of American Viticultural Areas on Wine Prices: A Hedonic Study of Napa Valley Relationships between Cryptocurrency Prices Ownership Structure, Capital Structure, and Patient Profitability of Investor-Owned and Nonprofit Hospitals Phenomena of Anticipatory Returns: Equity Market Trends Preceding Major Central Bank Announcements Activist Investing and Hedge Fund Clout: The Impact of Past Results on New Campaigns Applications of Deep Recurrent Neural Network to High Frequency Trading Empirical Analysis of Cryptocurrency Volatility Identifying Most Suitable Counties in America for Residential Ride-Sharing & Real Estate Growth Potential Estimating the Spillover Effects of U.S. Monetary Policy Normalizations on Emerging Market Economies Real Economic Effects of the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing Program: A Structural VAR Approach Private Credit and the Financing of Energy Efficiency Retrofits in the United States Analysis Of Regimes In Housing and REIT Markets: 1997 - 2017 Microfinance Policy and Financial Inclusion of Refugees in the European Union An Analysis of Counterparty Credit Risk Estimation Methods Using Monte Carlo Simulation Making Lemonade Out Of LIME: A Comparative Analysis of Methods for Interpretable Machine Learning Is China the Odd Yuan Out? A Comparative Study of China's Real Effective Exchange Rate Runaway Trains: Legal Conceptions of Foreign Corporation & State Legislature’s Authority to Tax in Civil War Era NJ Why Do People Save? An Intergenerational Analysis of Saving Behavior The Relationship Between Firm Level Fundamentals And Credit Index Returns Efficient Market Hypothesis In The Intraday Time Horizon Philanthropy With Chinese Characteristics: Potential of Corporate Giving as a Political and Financial Agent for Social Change

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Does It Pay to (Pledge to) Be Green? The Impact of Committing to Become 100% Renewable on Stock Returns Analyzing Pharmaceutical Research and Development Costs An Economic Analysis of Puerto Rico's Pension Crisis Financial (De) Regulation in The United States: A Brief History from 1978 - 2018 Beyond the Stock Market Crash: Financial Indicators of Deflation based on an International Look at the Great Depression Predicting the Accuracy of Earnings Forecasts Using Machine Learning The Effect of Foreign Export Exposure on British Equities During the Brexit Crisis The Effect of Inclusion in ETFs: an Empirical Analysis Using U.S.-Listed Stocks and the Annual Russell Reconstitution How Important Are Teachers? An Economic and Cost-Benefit Analysis Using U.S. PISA data A Stochastic Optimization Model for Managing Energy Storage Using a Driverless Fleet of Electric Vehicles Identifying the Effects of Remittances and Bank Presence on Regional Poverty Levels in the Philippines Measuring the Potential of Regulatory Capture in the Banking Industry: Dodd-Frank as a Case Study Using Machine Learning Methods to Predict Implied Volatility Surfaces for SPX Options Investigating the Relationship between IPO Type and Firm Returns Macroeconomic Forecast Disagreement Beta and the Cross-Section of Stock Price Movements Reality check: A Linguistic Analysis-Based Redefinition of Quarterly Earnings Surprise The Repeal of Net Neutrality: Who Wins and Who Loses? An Event Study Analysis On the International Spillover Effects of the U.S. Fed's Quantitative Easing: Lessons from Latin America Modeling the French Capital Distribution Curve with a Poisson Dirichlet Distribution Value-Oriented Hedge Funds and Market Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of 13F Holdings Cryptocurrencies & Competition: How Bitcoin Compares to Other Currencies and What That Means for Bitcoin’s Value Formal versus Informal Lending: The Effect of Access to Lending and Lending Sources on Firm Growth in China Equity Return Prediction with Augmented Regression and Factor Models Demystifying Shadow Banking in China - Developments, Challenges, and Recommendations Dynamics of Cryptocurrency Usage in a Competitive Market Financial Advising: An Examination of the Rise, Growth, and Functionality of Robo-Advisors The Effect of Asian Economic Growth on Global Hedge Fund Returns The Impact of the Great Recession on Household Portfolios