Varieties of regulation : how states pursue and set international financial standards
United Kingdom
Critical evaluation of the entrepreneurship and marketing interface : evidence from new ventures in the UK
United Kingdom
The development of commercial local area resource and emissions modelling
United Kingdom
Instability and volatility of economic growth under transition : an application of exogenous growth theory
The aim of this thesis is to explore growth processes in transition economies (TEs) by analysing differences between growth patterns in the course of transition and the smooth growth paths characteristic of developed market economies. Accordingly, the thesis builds upon the neoclassical growth theory 10 the transition context to develop a modified ...
The interaction between equity and credit risks
Equity and debt are two distinct classes of securities in terms of investing risks and potential return, but their value depends on the same underlying assets of the firm and therefore the risk-return tradeoff of each security should be systematically related. Following a review of the principal theoretical approaches to the measurement of equity a...
Credit spreads and economic activity in eight European economies
In this thesis we examine the relationship between corporate bond spreads and economic activity in eight European countries using data on 500 corporate bonds between July 1994 and May 2011 for the United Kingdom and between October 2001 and May 2011 for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain. We construct a unique dataset o...
An econometric investigation of the relationship between the price of oil and U.K. macroeconomic performance
The objective of this thesis is to conduct an econometric investigation of the relationship between the price of oil and U.K. macroeconomic performance. For this purpose, quarterly seasonally-adjusted time series have been collected which extend from 1972 to 2008. Empirical results are obtained from the estimation of unrestricted and restricted vec...
Towards a nomadic utopianism : Gilles Deleuze and the good place that is no place
This thesis utilises the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze alongside theory from the field of 'utopian studies' in order to think through how the concepts of utopia and utopianism might be relevant in an age that seems to have given up on the future. It develops - and argues in favour of - a 'nomadic utopianism', which proceeds through non-hierarchical ...
Essays on acquisition investments from emerging to developed markets
The literature has little to say about M&A activities in emerging markets, especially when firms from these countries acquire targets in developed economies, yet this growing tendency has manifested itself clearly in the global markets for corporate control over the last two decades. Unsurprisingly, our understanding of what underpins their decisio...
Event-based microscopic analysis of the FX market
United Kingdom
