Browsing Theses by Subject "Economics and Finance"

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    • Empirical Essays on Youths’ Labour Markets and Education 

      Simion, Stefania (Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-25)
      The first chapter assesses the impact of the cohort size on labour market outcomes. Using exogenous variation and micro-level data for France, the UK and the US, we study the effect of supply shocks measured at different ...

    • Essays in Macroeconomics 

      Redl, Christopher (Queen Mary University of London, 2015-12-09)
      This thesis explores macroeconomic issues broadly relating to monetary policy. The first chapter studies how the monetary authority should respond to shocks when labour productivity depends on past levels of employment ...

    • Essays on Models with Time-Varying Parameters for Forecasting and Policy Analysis 

      Venditti, Fabrizio (Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-11)
      The aim of this thesis is the development and the application of econometric models with time-varying parameters in a policy environment. The popularity of these methods has run in parallel with advances in computing ...

    • Essays on term structure models 

      Mouabbi, Sarah (Queen Mary University of London, 2014-10-06)
      Estimating risk premia has been at the forefront of the financial economics’ literature due to their informational content. Risk premia are of particular interest to academics, policymakers and practitioners given the ...

    • Essays on the Economics of Identity 

      Tagliaferri, Giulia (Queen Mary University of London, 2018-08-23)
      This thesis focuses on three different empirical questions related to the economic incentives to the formation of identity. The first chapter examines the dynamics of occupational segregation of self-identified homosexual ...

    • The feasibility of screening for viral hepatitis in immigrant populations 

      Appleby, Victoria (Queen Mary University of London, 19/09/2018)
      Globally, it is estimated that 240 million people are infected with chronic viral hepatitis B and in excess of 185 million people with chronic hepatitis C. The burden of disease from hepatitis is concentrated in developing ...

    • Negation in Historical West Flemish and Hollandic: an Investigation of Resilient Preverbal Markers 

      Laperre, E (Queen Mary University of London, 20/09/2018)
      This thesis examines the development of negation in historical West Flemish and Hollandic, focussing on resilient preverbal markers within a socio-historical framework. In doing so, my study provides a more detailed ...

    • Numerical methods for the recursive estimation of large-scale linear econometric models 

      Hadjiantoni, Stella (Queen Mary University of London, 2015-07-06)
      Recursive estimation is an essential procedure in econometrics which appears in many applications when the underlying dataset or model is modi ed. Data arrive consecutively and thus already estimated models will have to ...

    • A Quasi-Bayesian Local Likelihood Approach to Time Varying Parameter Models 

      Petrova, Katerina (Queen Mary University of London, 2016-09-05)
      This thesis proposes a new econometric methodology for the estimation and inference of macro- economic models in the presence of time variation in the parameters. A novel quasi-Bayesian local likelihood (QBLL) approach ...

    • Studies on the Programmable Protein Assembly via Genetically Encoded Native Chemical Ligation 

      Wong, WL (Queen Mary University of London, 01/10/2019)
      Programmed protein assembly has vast potential in applications as diverse as bioreactors, smart materials and drug delivery. However, to realise this potential, exact control of the assembly process is required. Thus, this ...