The first essay of this dissertation examines the 1997 Asian financial crisis. It is shown that existing literature on currency crises fail to provide any early warning indicators that would have predicted the across-the-board distress seen in the Asian economies. An alternative…
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This dissertation investigates the causes of the Asian crisis and improves implementation in predicting actual currency crises. Chapter I presents an overview of the inception and development of the Asian crisis with a focus on the movements of the macroeconomic variables and th…
The objectives of this thesis are: first, to investigate the impact of investor sentiment in UK financial markets in different investment intervals through the construction of separate sentiment measures for UK investors and UK institutional investors; second, to examine institu…
In the past two decades, there has been an extensive study on exchange rate economics. But research on the exchange rate related to currency crisis still remains as a challenging area. In this thesis, on the empirical side, we try to find the impact of 1997 Southeast Asian curre…
The AIDS explosion in India continues to be a serious concern (Irwin, Millen and Fallows 2003). Given the magnitude of AIDS cases in one of the most densely populated nations in the world, as well as the established gendered conduit to the infection, this dissertation studies HI…
This study explores two main topics in international finance. The first essay deals with the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis (FRUH) tests. The study addresses two facets of the FRUH: (1) what explains the ‘excessive’ volatility of change in the spot exchange rate relative t…
This dissertation provides a scientific and social history of ventilation in the British Atlantic World during the long eighteenth century. Emerging amidst the enlightened craze for improvement, the first ventilating machines, or “ventilators,” aimed to extend the providential b…
In the second half of the sixteenth century, a group of physicians sought to uncover how communicable diseases formed and spread. This group used letters to share information, swap cures, and debate theories. It centered around the imperial physician, Johann Crato von Krafftheim…