Doctoral Dissertations
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Editor Ken H. Johnson Auburn University-Montgomery School of Business Department of Accounting and Finance Montgomery, AL 36124-4023 334 244-3471 (Phone) 334 244-3792 (Fax) ken.johnson@mail.aum.edu This section presents summaries / abstracts of dissertations related to a broad cross- section of real estate issues. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, government policy and planning, real estate business and industry issues, property, contract and transaction types, real estate decision-making processes, market analysis, and related methodological and theoretical issues. If you are aware of any real estate related dissertation(s) that may not appear in standard sources and that you think would be of interest to our readers, please contact the editor at the address above. Bakimov, Rustam. University of Delaware, 2004. Financial Performance of Banks and Their Lending Responses to Monetary Policy Changes: Evidence from Individual Bank Data. In the market for credit information differences often arise between borrowers and lenders, making credit more difficult to attain for those borrowers with high information cost. Similar information asymmetries exist between banks and their depositors. This work hypothesizes that a bank’s financial strength signals the risk associated with its uninsured liabilities to potential investors, making the supply of its loans more vulnerable