Economics & Finance Theses: Recent submissions
Now showing items 51-55 of 94
-
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 ... -
Essays on corruption and development issues
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisCorruption is widely considered to have adverse effects on economic development through its negative impact on the volume and quality of public investment and the efficiency of government services. Conversely, many of these ... -
Regional development of the Aswan region of Egypt with special reference to the Aswan High Dam
(University of St Andrews, 1973) - ThesisThis study is concerned with the problems of regional development. In modern times, the different institutions within the nation-state have multiplied in number and increased in size and complexity so that it is becoming ... -
Numerical analysis and multi-precision computational methods applied to the extant problems of Asian option pricing and simulating stable distributions and unit root densities
(University of St Andrews, 2014-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis considers new methods that exploit recent developments in computer technology to address three extant problems in the area of Finance and Econometrics. The problem of Asian option pricing has endured for the ...