Adriana S. Cordis

Winthrop University - College of Business Administration

Associate Professor

Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001

United States

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Capital Expenditures and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Stock Returns

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2015
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business
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capital budgeting, capital expenditures, cross-sectional regression, asset growth, hurdle rate, overinvestment

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Sunshine as Disinfectant: The Effect of State Freedom of Information Act Laws on Public Corruption

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2014
Adriana S. Cordis and Patrick L. Warren
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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FOIA, Sunshine, Corruption, Open Government

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Freedom of Information and Corporate Pollution

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2025
Adriana S. Cordis, Hunghua Pan, Jin Zhang and Po-Hsuan Hsu
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration, National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance, Monash University and National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance
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freedom of information; open records; transparency; pollution; environmental awareness

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Accounting Ratios and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Nov 2013
Adriana S. Cordis
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration
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log returns, clean-surplus accounting, return on equity, book-to-market ratio, dividend yield, location-scale model

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Corruption and the Composition of Public Spending in the United States

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Corruption and the Composition of Public Spending in the United States

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2013
Adriana S. Cordis
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration
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Corruption, Government Spending

Corruption and the Composition of Public Spending in the United States

Public Finance Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 20 Mar 2014
Adriana S. Cordis
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration

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public corruption, rent seeking, government spending, education spending

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Regime-Switching Factor Models in Which the Number of Factors Defines the Regime

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Regime-Switching Factor Models in Which the Number of Factors Defines the Regime

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2011
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business
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dynamic factor analysis, covariance matrix estimation, correlation matrix estimation

Regime-Switching Factor Models in Which the Number of Factors Defines the Regime

Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business

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dynamic factor analysis, covariance matrix estimation, correlation matrix estimation

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Political Alignment and Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the United States

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2021
Adriana S. Cordis
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration
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political connections, corporate fraud

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Higher Education Spending and CPA Exam Performance

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Adriana S. Cordis and Steven Muzatko
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and Arkansas State University
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CPA exam, Higher education spending, AACSB accreditation

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Income Shifting as an Aspect of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Corporations

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Income Shifting as an Aspect of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Corporations

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Nov 2015
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business
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income shifting, tax avoidance, effective tax rate, cross-sectional regression

Income Shifting as an Aspect of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Corporations

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), Forthcoming
Posted: 28 Dec 2017
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business

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income shifting, tax avoidance, tax incentives, effective tax rate, foreign income share

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Discrete Stochastic Autoregressive Volatility

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Discrete Stochastic Autoregressive Volatility

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2014
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business
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Markov chain, time-varying transition probabilities, discrete autoregressive model, stochastic volatility, realized volatility

Discrete Stochastic Autoregressive Volatility

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 21 Mar 2014
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and UNC Charlotte - Belk College of Business

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Markov chain, time-varying transition probabilities, discrete autoregressive model, stochastic volatility, realized volatility

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Don't Blame the Weather: Federal Natural Disaster Aid and Public Corruption

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Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Adriana S. Cordis and Jeff Milyo
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration and University of Missouri - Economics
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Judicial Checks on Corruption in the United States

Economics of Governance, Vol. 10, pp. 375-401, 2009
Posted: 14 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2011
Adriana S. Cordis
Winthrop University - College of Business Administration

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corruption, checks and balances, judicial independence, constitutional rigidity