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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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David Eckles
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706-542-3578
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