Bayesian analysis

This dissertation is composed of three empirical studies on banking, credit and the macroeconomy. The first chapter revisits the Roaring Twenties (1920s) to investigate how shocks to credit supply originating from the financial sector interacted with stock prices and macroeconom…

Structural health and safety play a major role in all facets of human daily lives. Over the past few decades significant advancements have been made in structural damage detection and health management in a wide range of engineering disciplines and practices, including but not l…

A constitutive model is a relationship between material stimuli and responses. Calibration of model parameters within well-defined constitutive models is thus key to the generation of accurate model-based predictions. One limitation of traditional material calibration is that on…