Credit market imperfections have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great Depression in the USA. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the East Asian miracle? After a brief account of the nature of the recent crisis, we use a model of highly levered...

In public health studies, it is common for exposure status to be misclassified. In this dissertation, statistical models to adjust for misclassification will be proposed to address four related questions of interest.The first question focuses on exploring the association between a disease and...

Based on the meta-regression analysis this paper examines the long term relationship between growth and financial globalization in Asia. There is little evidence that financial globalization has had a positive impact on growth for the world as a whole. This pattern is broadly repeated for...