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Isenberg School of Management Doctoral Programs

Recent Graduates

During the 2006 - 2007 academic year, the following Ph.D. students have successfully defended their dissertation:

Natalia Beliaeva

Dissertation: Efficient Lattice Methods for Pricing Contingent Claims Under Stochastic Volatility and Jumps Models (View Abstract)

Michael Braun

Dissertation: The Governance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts (View Abstract)
Employer: University of Montana

Cosette Chichirau

Dissertation: The Impact of R&D on the Fundamentals and Market Values of Firms (View Abstract)

Kevin Farmer

Dissertation: An Investigation into the Effect Representatives have on their Clients' Perception of Justice in Mediation (View Abstract)
Employer: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Paul Donnelly

Dissertation: Organizational Forming In (A)Modern Times: Path Dependence, Actor-Network Theory and Ireland's Industrial Development Authority (View Abstract)

Georgi Georgiev

Dissertation: Volatility in the Futures Markets for Financial and Physical Commodity Assets: The Impact of High Frequency Data on the Distributional Properties and Forecasting of Volatility, Direction-of-Change Probability Forecasting and Asymmetric Volatility Effects (View Abstract)

Dmytro Matsypura

Dissertation: Dynamics of Global Supply Chain and Electric Power Networks: Models, Pricing Analysis, and Computations (View Abstract)
Employer: University of Sydney, Australia

Jane Parent

Dissertation: Individual Adaptation to the Changing Workplace: Causes, Consequences and Outcomes (View Abstract)
Employer: Merrimack College

Hyuna Park

Dissertation: Three Essays On The Risk Of Hedge Funds (View Abstract)

Tina Wakolbinger

Dissertation: A Dynamic Theory for the Integration of Social and Economic Networks with Applications to Supply Chain and Financial Networks (View Abstract)
Employer: University of Memphis

Jia Wang

Dissertation: Three Essays on Risk Arbitrage (View Abstract)