This thesis investigates firms with patterns of repeated cash dividend increases to answer two research questions. First, are firms rewarded for this particular type of dividend policy, and second, is there any evidence to support the hypothesis that the stock market learns to anticipate a...

In a recent theoretical paper, Sherman [Sherman, A.E., 2005, Global trends in IPO methods: Book building versus auctions with endogenous entry, Journal of Financial Economics 78, 615-649.] proposes that: "If book building leads to greater expected underpricing relative to uniform price or...

In his article, entitled “Forcing Them to be Free,†Peceny (1999) presents and empirically tests an argument that while most U.S. military interventions are not successful in bringing about democracy, those cases of intervention in which the U.S. also pushes for “free and fair...

This paper presents a Bayesian nonparametric approach to survival analysis based on arbitrarily right censored data. The first aim will be to show that the "neutral to the right"process is the natural prior to use in this context. Secondly, the properties of a particular neutral to the right...

Crops For the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) is currently developing CropBASE—a cross-cutting web-based platform for decision support and knowledge sharing on underutilised crops and their end uses. It provides a quantitative basis to compare underutilised crop productivity and...

International passenger aviation has increased threefold in the last 25 years and is predicted to continue a similar rapid expansion over the next 25 years. While bringing considerable economic benefits, growth of the aviation sector is also likely to lead to greater adverse social and...