Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 34-06, Section: A, page: 2884. / Thesis (D.B.A.)--The Florida State University, 1973.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 34-10, Section: A, page: 6232. / Thesis (D.B.A.)--The Florida State University, 1973.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 33-06, Section: A, page: 2593. / Thesis (D.B.A.)--The Florida State University, 1972.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1035. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984. / The assumption that an increase in public spending in Florida would increase student achievement was examined using path analysis. Third grade school level data included family variables, per pupil expenditures from federal, State and local funds, and achievement measured by Statewide minimum competency tests in mathematics and communication. A recursive model was theorized. Under the set of assumptions of the causal model the following results could be expected. Disbursements of federal money based on percentage of disadvantaged students was supported for teacher but not substitute teacher salaries per pupil. With State funds, allocated solely by number of pupils served, increases in teacher salaries per pupil contributed to declining expenditures in all other funding categories but prorated school charges to the K-3 program. Unlike compensatory program results, the effect of teacher salaries on substitute teacher salaries per pupil with State funds was negative. This suggested more teacher absences with disadvantaged pupils. Some categories of expenditures were more effective in promoting pupil achievement than others. While increases in State expenditures for instructional equipment, professional services and teacher salaries per pupil appeared to improve achievement, those for substitute teachers and prorated school charges per pupil did not. School mean achievement appeared to decline with increased percentages of disadvantaged pupils, although large proportions of their total associations were spurious. Efforts through teacher salaries per pupil did not offset the initial disadvantages of the federally funded students to achieve, despite help from substitute teacher salaries per pupil. Inclusion of an ability measure and additional background variables seems advisable for future studies. The results from this study were conservative due to curtailed variation from various sources. However, it has indicated potentially successful and unsuccessful expenditures for fostering achievement, taking a step toward bridging the gap between implicit assumptions and practices.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 28-07, Section: A, page: 2417. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1967.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 28-07, Section: A, page: 2418. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1967.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 28-03, Section: A, page: 0862. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1967.

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of Yemeni citizens toward the financing of public education. To collect the data, a survey instrument was constructed, translated into Arabic, and administered in the Yemen Arab Republic. A random sample of 600 Yemeni citizens was drawn as an approximate representation of the Yemeni population--400 from the city of Taiz, an urban area, and 200 from Zabied, a rural area. From the sample, 312 respondents fromTaiz and 200 from Zabied (a total of 512) actually participated in the study. / Analysis of the data produced the following findings. First, the majority of the Yemeni citizens prefer to contribute to financing education by paying an educational tax. Second, they showed a very positive attitude toward making voluntary contributions to assist in financing their educational system. Third, the respondents demonstrated a negative attitude toward accepting foreign aid as a way of financing education in their country., Fourth, they indicated that contributions to education should be made locally. Fifth, most of the Yemeni citizens agreed with the idea that contributions to financing education must be considered a civic responsibility. Finally, the majority of the respondents preferred contributions for financing education rather than other social services. / The analytical study was implemented by constructing scales and crosstabulating the dependent with the independent variables. Several independent variables appeared to have significant effect on citizens' attitudes concerning many aspects of the financing of education; however, the relationship in each case was only moderate or weak. Some of the other independent variables, such as information exposure, had no significant effect on citizens' attitudes toward contributing to the financing of education. / A set of recommendations was formulated to guide policymakers in effective utilization of citizens' positive attitudes as a prerequisite for their participation in national educational development. One of the most important recommendations was to have a supreme Council for Financing Education in order to plan and organize citizens' contributions to financing education. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: A, page: 2920. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.

The evidence of a negative price response generally associated with the initial announcement of seasoned common stock offerings demands a more explicit rationale for why management would undertake an action that serves to lower current shareholder wealth. Although adverse selection appears to be the prevailing explanation for this price response, it is not evident that overvaluation should suffice as an explanation for both the equity-offering decision and the pecking-order financing preference. The purpose of this study is to explore the validity of overvaluation apart from the issue of pecking-order as an explanation for this decision and the corresponding price response. Particular emphasis is put upon the market's interpretation of the equity offering and the characteristics associated with management, the firm, and the offering used by the market to arrive at this interpretation. / The results show that the market does use information relating to capital structure apart from the issue-investment decision in determining the motive for the offering. However, the results are contrary to that implied by pecking-order. In particular, equity-offering firms with binding internal and debt-financing capacity are received more favorably than those with nonbinding internal and debt-financing capacity at the initial announcement. / The evidence also shows that insiders most familiar with the operations of the firm are abnormally high sellers over the second and third months prior to the initial announcement. Further, this selling activity is directly related to the preoffering process price response and levels of internal-financing capacity, and indirectly related to measures of asset utilization efficiency. More compelling is the evidence that these types of insiders who also hold large ownership positions are heavy net sellers surrounding the offering. When analyzing purchasing activity surrounding the offering, it is apparent that, although this activity is higher after the offering announcement, it merely represents purchasing activity that would have normally occurred had the offering not taken place. Overall, these results are highly supportive of the proposition that equity offerings are conducted to take advantage of overvaluation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-11, Section: A, page: 4028. / Major Professor: James S. Ang. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.

This study reviews the literature concerned with the apparent historical negative relationship between stock returns and inflation. Seven possible explanations for the negative relationship are compared and tested. These include the rational expectations based explanations of Fama and of Geske and Roll, the risk-premium explanation, a tax-related explanation and two portfolio adjustment explanations, one derived from monetarist theory and the other from Tobin. The irrational investor hypothesis of Modigliani and Cohn is also examined. Testing methodology includes Box-Jenkins ARIMA techniques with transfer functions. / The results of the study contradict all of the explanations except the portfolio adjustment view of Tobin and the view that investors are behaving irrationally. Found also, is that the negative relationship between stock returns and inflation is very weak if it exists at all: instead interest rate changes are the dominant factor determining stock returns. The examination of whether the earnings yield best represents a real or a nominal return, leads to the conclusion that the nominal yield view holds up best historically and that a portfolio adjustment process based on interest rates is not irrational. A successful trading rule based on interest rates is devised to exploit an apparent case of market inefficiency. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: A, page: 3141. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.