Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I WHAT IS JUSTICE ? -- CHAPTER II THE ULTIMATE BASIS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT -- CHAPTER III THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-CENTERED APPRECIATION COMMONLY CALLED SELF-INTEREST -- CHAPTER IV THE FORMS OF HUMAN CONFLICT -- CHAPTER V ECONOMIC COMPETITION -- CHAPTER VI...

This dissertation consists of three essays on sovereign credit default swaps (CDSs). The first essay studies the relationship between the China sovereign and bank CDS spreads and the determinants of the China sovereign CDS spread changes using the copula model and regression analysis. Our...