Dissertations of Selected RMI PhD Program Graduates
| Year | Name | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Steven Miller | Corporate Decision Making for Publicly Traded Insurers: Corporate Governance Stringency and Enterprise Risk Management Adoption |
| 2006 | Enya He | Two essays on corporate governance in the property-liability insurance industry |
| 2006 | Joseph Ruhland | Information asymmetry between firm owners and managers: two essays |
| 2004 | Andre Liebenberg | The determinants and effects of corporate diversification |
| 2002 | Cassandra Cole | An empirical analysis of motives for termination of defined benefit pension plans |
| 2002 | Lawrence Powell | Internal capital markets in the insurance industry |
| 2001 | Ryan Lee | Financial economics of life insurer mergers |
| 2000 | Kathleen McCullough | Implications of corporate diversification and focus: evidence from acquisitions in the insurance industry |
| 1999 | J. Tim Query | Simultaneous estimation of price and service quality in the property-casualty insurance industry |
| 1998 | Randy Dumm | Access to capital and the role of group affiliation in the insurance industry: empirical evidence |
| 1995 | L. Lee Colquitt | Determinants of corporate risk reduction: empirical evidence |
| 1995 | William Ferguson | Effectiveness of state insurance solvency regulation: evidence from the financial behavior of life insurers |
| 1993 | James Carson | Identifying life insurer financial distress: parametric and nonparametric classification models, insolvency theories, and empirical evidence |
| 1992 | Brenda (Powell) Wells | The effects of agency costs and managerial discretion on life insurer investment and cash distribution policies |
| 1991 | Carol Ann Jordan | Forecasting workers compensation losses for large corporations using time series methods |
| 1990 | Robert Puelz | Signaling and adverse selection in the automobile insurance market |
| 1985 | David A. Cather | A profitability analysis of property liability insurers using different distribution systems |
| 1981 | Thomas A. Aiuppa | Investigations of property-liability insurance company loss reserves established during the 1970s for reported and incurred-but-not-reported claims |
*Most of these Dissertations are available through the University of Georgia Main Library
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