Research

Her scholarship primarily involves Environmental Economics with a focus on Health Economics. She is particularly interested in risk mitigating actions taken by individuals in highly resource constrained economies and most of her field work is based in developing countries. Dr. Aziz’s most recent research involves assessing the social economic impact of utilizing remote sensing technology to track vector borne disease in developing countries. She focuses on the valuation of pathogen contaminated drinking water in urban and rural Bangladesh, and her previous work involves valuation of arsenic in drinking water in rural Bangladesh. She was principal investigator and co-principal investigator of multiple grants funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She collaborates extensively with the University of Maryland at College Park, Penn State, the University of Rhode Island and with international research organizations.

She has developed a measure to quantify how different assets are connected when the overall market is going down and improved the predictions for the cross-section of stock returns. You can explore the work in more detail through the following links: A new tail-based correlation measure and its application in global equity markets and A novel downside beta and expected stock returns. She also looks into reasons and solutions for bank failures. You can read one of her studies here for more details. In the realm of corporate finance, she explores how economic policy uncertainty affects the cost of capital (Economic policy uncertainty and the cost of capital), whether managers receive high compensation due to their talents or their influence within the company (Should the CEO Pay Ratio be Regulated?), and how the use of relative performance evaluation in managers’ compensation contracts affects managers’ behavior and firms’ risk-taking, e.g., Relative Performance Evaluation and Contagion in Financial Reporting Quality.

Her research has been in sports economics, where she has used event analysis to examine the impact of the announcements of naming rights on the value of companies that purchase them and found no evidence of a positive impact. Much of her research uses sports settings to study broader social issues, such as gender pay gaps. For example, she is currently focusing on gender differences in response to setbacks and competitive settings. She has performed this analysis in settings ranging from professional tennis to professional golf to international figure skating. Her most recent paper on gender differences has used the setting of the gameshow Jeopardy. She asks whether women in Final Jeopardy bet differently from men and finds that they do not. At least in this setting, men and women behave the same way.

Despite the increasing representation of women in top leadership positions, research indicates that people tend to associate leadership with men more often than with women, and this stigma consciousness can disrupt women’s focus and decision making by directing attention toward stereotype-confirming feedback, thereby reducing their performance in the domain. Dr.Boyer’s work examines differential responses to stereotype threat, which can range from anxiety and withdrawal behaviors to anger and approach behaviors. Further, she examines how these experiences impact women’s motivation to lead and career aspirations. She recently presented her research at the Academy of Management Conference in Boston, MA. Dr. Boyer’s broader research interests include leadership, burnout, and unethical behavior. She was recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and was awarded a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grant from Drexel University for her collaborative project on the relationship between burnout and client derogation among human service professionals.

This chapter focuses on how Walt Disney World employs marketing techniques that engender deep loyalty from consumers to itself and amongst each other by using its theme park experience as an applied story. This chapter will explain how through strategic utilization of perception, ritual, involvement, and storytelling, Walt Disney World forges lasting connections with its customers that extend beyond individual visits and are passed down through generations.