This thesis analyses the relationship between the increasingly important sovereign CDS spreads and exchange rates, from a macroeconomic perspective. It attempts to address an existing gap in the empirical literature, which to date has paid limited attention to the role of exchange rates in influencing sovereign CDS spreads, and vice versa. In explo...
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This thesis addresses some of the current gaps in the literature on unifractal and multifractal processes in finance, through a combination of empirical and theoretical contributions spanning the key problems of estimation, forecasting and inference. In Chapter 2 a new method is proposed for producing density forecasts for daily financial returns f...
Many companies engage in behaviour that is intended to reduce, mitigate or avoid the amount of taxation that would otherwise be due. This behaviour may result in changes to the tax code of a country and in comments being made and actions undertaken by governments, academics and other interested parties. This thesis argues that there exists a lack o...
Public participation is increasingly encouraged in decision-making as part of a growing shift from government to governance. Participatory GIS is an approach to public participation that relies on ma ps and focuses on community inclusion. Attractive but frag ile ecosystems, coastal urban areas are currently under pressure from climate change-induce...
