Economics & Finance: Recent submissions
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The impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund programme lending on health care delivery, health conditions and health status in sub-Saharan Africa, 1980 to 1992
(1996-07) - ThesisThe World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been active in Africa for several decades. In the early 1980s both institutions expanded the role that they play in the restructuring of African economies through ... -
Essays on international portfolio choices and capital flows
(University of St Andrews, 2016) - ThesisThe goal of this thesis is to study the international portfolio choices of countries in an asymmetric world. In practice, this corresponds to the salient facts of country portfolios and the underlying structural asymmetries ... -
Four essays on UK takeovers : evidence from matching analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisIn four empirical chapters, matching analysis is employed to estimate the effects of specific contractual and regulatory arrangements on particular deal outcomes in the UK takeover market. The first chapter highlights ... -
Three essays on the wealth effects of deferred payments in corporate takeovers
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisIn three papers, I employ parametric and nonparametric methods in order to further examine the determinants of value creation in M&A deals financed with contingent earnout payments. The first paper investigates the ... -
Essays in competition policy, innovation and banking regulation
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the optimal enforcement of competition policy in innovative industries and in the banking sector. Chapter 2 analyses the welfare impact of compulsory licensing in the context of unilateral refusals ...