This thesis examines the links between economic time-series innovations and statisticalrisk factors in the UK stock market using principal components analysis (PCA) and thegeneral-to-specific (Gets) approach to econometric modelling.A multi-factor risk structure for the UK stock market is...

In the balance-of-payments-constrained growth model literature, income elasticities (IEs) are considered as the crucial element determining a country's long-run growth rate. Although the extant literature accepts that technology matters for IEs magnitude, explanations linking technology and IEs...