2005 SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS ANNOUNCED CONGRATULATIONS TO 11 FACULTY MEMBERS

Eleven 2005 summer research grants to School of Business faculty have been announced by Dr. Allen S. Lee, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. They are:

Etti Baranoff
" Financial Rating Changes and Market Discipline in Life Insurance"

Kenneth Daniels
" Information Lending Specialization, Banks and Finance Companies: Evidence from the DIP Lending Market"

José Dulá
" Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a Data Mining Tool"

Doug Davis
" Posted-Offer Markets in Near-Continuous Time: An Experimental Investigation"

Gurpreet Dhillon
" Individual Information Privacy Concerns in Internet Commerce: A Value Focused Assessment"

Carolyn Strand Norman
" An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Goal Orientation and Ethical Position on Managers and Accountants Abilities to Recognize Misappropriation of Assets"

Myung S. Park
" Underwriter Choice and Earnings Management: Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings"

Laura Razzolini
" Traffic Congestion: Actions and Reactions"

Anson Seers
" The Measurement of Leader-Member Exchange"

Brent Smith
" The Determinants of Sales Activity for Individually Owned Multifamily Housing"

Leslie S. Stratton
" Specialization in Household Activities Within Cohabiting versus Married Households"

The recipients are selected through a double-blind review process. Nine professors served as reviewers. The identities of the reviewers for a specific application will remain blind. No reviewer was assigned an application from his own department. The reviewers were:
David Downs
Geoffrey Hubona
David Harless
George Hoffer
Ron Humphrey
Michael McDaniel
David Urban
Jayaraman Vijayakumar
Ben Wier