Research
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Latest papers
Liquidity and volatility commonality in the Canadian stock market.
Mathematics-in-industry case studies · 2017
Latest funding
- $43,414
Search for the optimal executive compensation contract: theoretical and empirical investigations
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
- $69,404
Impacts of holding restrictions, bankruptcy risk and mortality risk on the private valuation of company stocks and options
SSHRC · 2005 · Co-investigator
- $28,825
Firms' financing decisions and weather risk management
SSHRC · 2000 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
Liquidity and volatility commonality in the Canadian stock market.
Gold N, Wang Q, Cao M, Huang H
Search for the optimal executive compensation contract: theoretical and empirical investigations
Principal investigators: Cao, Melanie M.
Keywords: CEO job market; search; CEO's endogenous reservation utility; relative performance evaluation; absolute performance evaluation; CEO compensation in a market equilibrium
Impacts of holding restrictions, bankruptcy risk and mortality risk on the private valuation of company stocks and options
Principal investigators: Wei, Jason Z.
Keywords: asset allocation; restricted stocks; restricted options; incentive stocks and options; pension investments; bankruptcy risk; mortality risk; welfare loss; incentive effects
Firms' financing decisions and weather risk management
Principal investigators: Cao, Melanie
Keywords: Equity; financing; loans; risks; weather derivatives
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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