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This dissertation seeks to link monetary policy and institutional quality, specifically for the case of developing countries. In an effort to demonstrate how monetary policy and institutional quality interact, I use the theoretical framework developed by Dimakou (2006). Through …

This dissertation considers two distinct issues in macroeconomics. The first is the effect of tax changes on the level of productivity of an economy and the second concerns the implications of cross-national migration for long-run growth and welfare. In the first chapter, I anal…

Stock market volatility has been an important subject in the finance literature for which now an enormous body of research exists. Volatility modelling and forecasting have been in the epicentre of this line of research and although more than a few models have been proposed and …