Mutual fund liquidity pricing and management
United Kingdom
A study on growth, inflation and inequality
United Kingdom
Essays on consumption behaviour related to health and retirement
This dissertation is concerned with the empirical study of households' decisions on consumption and time use over the life-cycle. The first chapter presents evidence on the role of shocks around the time of retirement as a potential explanation of the retirement consumption puzzle. We address this issue by studying how expenditure of households in ...
A multi-criteria decision analysis framework for sustainable rainwater harvesting systems in Ibadan, Nigeria
The approach to water management worldwide is currently in transition, with a shift from centralised infrastructures to greater consideration of decentralised technologies, such as rainwater harvesting (R WH). Initiated by recognition of drivers, including water demand, increasing risk of ground-water pollution and flooding, the value of R WH is fi...
Alignment of house buyer and house builder opinions in the delivery of energy efficient homes in Scotland
Household carbon dioxide emissions (C02) account for approximately 27% of the overall C02 emitted within the United Kingdom (UK) who's Government, has implemented a series of strategies and targets aimed at achieving widespread, zero carbon (Zc) housing by 2016. Until now, it was unclear whether or not house buyers and builders agreed on the types ...
The effect of active and passive policy rules on economic growth
This thesis is comprised of three chapters on active and passive regime policy rules. The policy makers commit to simple rules in which the monetary authority follows an interest rate targeting rule while the fiscal authority follows a debt targeting rule. The first chapter determines how the conduct of fiscal policy rules interacts with optimal mo...
International stock market integration of emerging Europe : analyses from aggregate level to firm level, from tranquil p...
This thesis contains 3 empirical chapters with relevance to the ‘international stock market integration’ literature. The first chapter aims to investigate the evolution of the international integration of emerging European stock markets with the world market for the period of 1996 to 2011. For this purpose, using dynamic conditional correlation app...
A critical investigation into human-equine interaction and associated experiences as a leisure and tourist activity in t...
This thesis investigates the motivational factors and the types of human-equine interactions and associated experiences which are encountered as a leisure and tourist activity. Despite the growing interest in human-animal relations very few accounts have actually explored horses especially within the realm of leisure and tourism. This research cont...
Religion and lobbying in the European Union : Christian Zionism in Brussels
United Kingdom
Credit spreads and economic activity in eight European economies
United Kingdom
