Items where Year is 2011

Aaltonen, Aleksi (2011) Manufacturing the digital advertising audience. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ahmadov, Anar (2011) A conditional theory of the ‘political resource curse:’ oil, autocrats, and strategic contexts. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Al-Motairi, Hessah (2011) Models for investment capacity expansion. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Alghatam, Noora H. (2011) Global formats and local enactments: a case study of ICT professionals working on e-government projects in Dubai. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Alves, Ana Cristina (2011) China’s oil diplomacy: comparing Chinese economic statecraft in Angola and Brazil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anciães, Paulo Rui (2011) Urban transport, pedestrian mobility and social justice: a GIS analysis of the case of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrews, Michael (2011) Cultures of commerce compared: a comparative study of the ideal of the businessman in China and England, c.1600-1800. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anton Sancho, Miguel (2011) Three essays on the comovement of financial assets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barany, Zsofia Luca (2011) Essays on the macroeconomics of inequality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barham, Eleanor (2011) Markets, selection and equity: how reputation and popularity influence student admissions and recruitment in universities in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barroso, Luis (2011) The problems and the controls of the new administrative state of the EU. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barta, Zsófia (2011) Flirting with disaster: explaining excessive public debt accumulation in Italy and Belgium. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barthel, Fabian (2011) Spatial dependence in dyadic data: the cases of double taxation treaties, official development assistance, and asylum migration. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Baumberg, Ben (2011) The role of increasing job strain in deteriorating fitness-for-work and rising incapacity benefit receipt. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Baygeldi, Murat (2011) Social construction of IS evaluation: a case study of IT investment appraisal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bell, Eona (2011) An anthropological study of ethnicity and the reproduction of culture among Hong Kong Chinese families in Scotland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Benaissa, Amal (2011) BLOG.GOV: winning digital hearts and minds?: professionalization, personalization and ideology in foreign policy communication. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Benning, Elizabeth (2011) Economic Power and Political Leadership: the Federal Republic, the West and the Re-shaping of the International Economic System, 1972-1976. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bernal, Paul Alexander (2011) Do deficiencies in data privacy threaten our autonomy and if so, can informational privacy rights meet this threat? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Blanco-Mancilla, Georgina (2011) Implementation of health policies in Mexico City: what factors contribute to more effective service delivery? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bramwell, Richard (2011) The aesthetics and ethics of London based rap: a sociology of UK hip-hop and grime. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bruynooghe, Daniel (2011) Differential cumulants, hierarchical models and monomial ideals. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Buchanan, Catherine (2011) The massacre of St. Bartholomew’s (24-27 August 1572) and the sack of Antwerp (4-7 November 1576): print and political responses in Elizabethan England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Burchardi, Konrad Burchard (2011) Three essays in applied microeconomics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Calich, Isabel (2011) The impact of globalisation on the position of developing countries in the international tax system. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Carayol, Timothée (2011) Social capital, human capital, and labour market outcomes. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cerri, Karin H. (2011) Evidence, process or context? Examining the factors that drive coverage decisions of pharmaceuticals by health technology assessment bodies in Europe. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chamberlain-Creangă, Rebecca A (2011) Cementing modernisation: transnational markets, language and labour tension in a Post-Soviet factory in Moldova. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chan, Lon Polly Pui (2011) Two explicitly solvable problems with discretionary stopping. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chang, Ting Ting (2011) Re-examination on the role of the state in the development of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized enterprises, 1950- 2000: the state, market and social institution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Che, Xiaonan (2011) Markov type models for large-valued interbank payment systems. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chen, Dan (2011) Three essays on pricing and hedging in incomplete markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chow, Phoebe (2011) British opinion and policy towards China, 1922-1927. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cirenza, Peter (2011) Melting pot or salad bowl?: assessing Irish immigrant assimilation in late nineteenth century America. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cockerton, Caitlin (2011) Going synthetic: how scientists and engineers imagine and build a new biology. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Colbran, Marianne (2011) Watching the cops: a case study of production processes on television police drama "The Bill". PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Colvin, Christopher Louis (2011) Religion, competition and liability: Dutch cooperative banking in crisis, 1919-1927. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cunningham, Thomas (2011) Essays on thresholds and on relative thinking. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Das, Ranjana (2011) Interpretation: from audiences to user. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Datta, Ankur (2011) The politics of place, community and recognition among Kashmiri pandit forced migrants in Jammu and Kashmir. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

De Angelis, Emma (2011) The political discourse of the European Parliament, enlargement, and the construction of a European identity, 1962 - 2004. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel C. J. M. (2011) Essays in political economy and voting behaviour. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dhesi, Japinder (2011) Made to stick? A cognition and culture account of social group stereotypes. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Di Gregorio, Monica (2011) Social movement networks, policy processes, and forest tenure activism in Indonesia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dias Soares, Claudia A. (2011) The design features of environmental taxes. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dineen, Katy (2011) A non-contingent concept of connectedness for cosmopolitanism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dionigi, Filippo (2011) The impact of international norms on Islamist politics: the case of Hezbollah. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad (2011) Neo-Nagelian reduction: a statement, defence, and application. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Elgert, Laureen (2011) The politics of evidence: towards critical deliberative governance in sustainable development. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Elsayed, Heba (2011) A tale of three cities?: mediated imagination, class and the many young cosmopolitans of Cairo. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fang, I-Chieh (2011) Growing up and becoming independent: an ethnographic study of new generation migrant workers in China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fardeau, Vincent (2011) Essays in financial economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ferman, Marcelo (2011) A macro-finance approach to the term structure of interest rates. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fernández, Raúl Alberto (2011) Financial liberalisation, asymmetric information and inflation: a new perspective on the Argentine financial experiment of 1977-81. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fleming, Gillian B. (2011) Juana I and the struggle for power in an age of transition (1504-1521). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Foote, Elizabeth Ellen (2011) Essays in financial intermediation and banking. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Frantz, Elizabeth (2011) Exporting subservience: Sri Lankan women's migration for domestic work in Jordan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fried, Marvin Benjamin (2011) War aims and peace conditions: Austro-Hugarian foreign policy in the Balkans, July 1914 - May 1917. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fumagalli, Roberto (2011) Philosophical foundations of neuroeconomics: economics and the revolutionary challenge from neuroscience. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gani, Jasmine K. (2011) Understanding and explaining US-Syrian relations: conflict and cooperation, and the role of ideology. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gattermann, Katjana (2011) News about the European Parliament: patterns and drivers of broadsheet coverage. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gayoso Descalzi, Carmen Amelia (2011) Russian hegemony in the CIS region: an examination of Russian influence and of variation in consent and dissent by CIS states to regional hierarchy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Giammarino, Flavia (2011) Indifference pricing with uncertainty averse preferences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Golson, Eric (2011) The economics of neutrality: Spain, Sweden and Switzerland in the Second World War. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gounev, Philip Martinov (2011) Backdoor traders: illicit entrepreneurs and legitimate markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grangård, Halfdan (2011) Health and the economy: three essays. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grillo, Francesco (2011) Public investments in R&D as a tool for regional economic development: under which circumstances do the European Union’s Structural Funds investments on research achieve their objective to contribute to economic convergence of regions? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grinberg, Nicolas (2011) Transformations in the Korean and Brazilian processes of capitalist development between the mid-1950s and the mid-2000s: the political economy of late industrialisation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gulesci, Selim (2011) Poverty, occupational choice and social networks: essays in development economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hohl, Katrin (2011) The role of mass media and police communication in trust in the police: new approaches to the analysis of survey and media data. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Homkes, Rebecca (2011) Analysing the role of public-private partnerships in global governance: institutional dynamics, variation and effects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hood, Benjamin David (2011) What model for regulating employee discipline and grievances most effectively supports the policy objective of partnership at work and enhanced competitiveness? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hoover, Joseph (2011) Reconstructing human rights: a pragmatic and pluralist inquiry in global ethics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ishihara, Akifumi (2011) Essays on relational contracts. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

James, Adrian (2011) The influence of intelligence-led policing models on investigative policy and practice in mainstream policing 1993-2007: division, resistance and investigative orthodoxy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

John, Mathew (2011) Rethinking the secular state: perspectives on constitutional law in post-colonial India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Karamouzi, Eirini (2011) Greece’s Path to EEC membership, 1947- 1979: the view from Brussels. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Keefer, Scott Andrew (2011) Great Britain and naval arms control: international law and security 1898-1914. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ketola, Markus (2011) Europeanisation and civil society: the early impact of EU pre-accession policies on Turkish NGOs. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kim, Helen (2011) Desis doing it like this: diaspora and the spaces of the London urban Asian music scene. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kim, Suyoung (2011) The politics of struggle in a state–civil society partnership: a case study of a South Korean workfare partnership programme. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kornelakis, Andreas (2011) Mediating EU liberalisation and negotiating flexibility: a coalitional approach to wage bargaining change. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kotsakis, Andreas (2011) The biological diversity complex: a history of environmental government. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kroll, Christian (2011) Towards a sociology of happiness: examining social capital and subjective well-being across subgroups of society. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kucuk Tuger, Hande (2011) Essays on international portfolio allocation and risk sharing. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kufner, Juergen (2011) Tall building policy making and implementation in central London: visual impacts on regionally protected views from 2000 to 2008. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kyriakidou, Maria (2011) Watching the pain of others: audience discourses of distant suffering in Greece. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou, Avgousta (2011) Distributed development of large-scale distributed systems: the case of the particle physics grid. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kärrberg, Patrik (2011) The emergence of the mobile internet in Japan and the UK: platforms, exchange models, and innovation 1999‐2011. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Li, Guoming (2011) The constitutional relationship between China and Hong Kong: a study of the status of Hong Kong in China’s system of government under the principle of ‘one Country, two systems’. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Zijun (2011) Essays in financial intermediation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lopes, Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira (2011) Between Cold War and colonial wars: the making of West German policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship, 1968-1974. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

MacArtney, John I. (2011) Healing ourselves: ethical subjectivity in the stories of complementary self-help users with cancer. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mallard, Alison (2011) Freedom under the law: right and revolution in Kant's theory of justice. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marcello, Sorrentino (2011) Development in the mountains of confusion: Guaribas under the Zero-Hunger Programme. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marinelli, Elisabetta (2011) Graduates on the move: knowledge flows and Italian regional disparities. Migration patterns of 2001 graduates. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Martin, Aaron K. (2011) Envisioning technology through discourse: a case study of biometrics in the National Identity Scheme in the United Kingdom. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marton, Attila (2011) Forgotten as data – remembered through information. Social memory institutions in the digital age: the case of the Europeana Initiative. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Masraff, Naz (2011) Why keep complying?: compliance with EU conditionality under diminished credibility in Turkey. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mayer, Matthias M. (2011) Governmental preferences on liberalising economic migration policies at the EU level: Germany’s domestic politics, foreign policy, and labour market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mbaye, Jenny F. (2011) Reconsidering cultural entrepreneurship: hip hop music economy and social change in Senegal, francophone West Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McClean, Tom (2011) Shackling Leviathan: a comparative historical study of institutions and the adoption of freedom of information. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McFate, Sean (2011) Durable disorder: the return of private armies and the emergence of neomedievalism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McGurk, Patrick (2011) The contingent role of management and leadership development for middle managers: cases of organisational change from the public services. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mehta, Hemini (2011) The influence of total domestic outsourcing on the role of the IT function: a case study of the BBC. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Merschen, Julian (2011) Nash equilibria, gale strings, and perfect matchings. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Metzger, Daniel (2011) Human capital and decision making within the firm. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Meyers, Jeffrey B. (2011) Toward a Negri-inspired theory of c/Constitution: a contemporary Canadian case study. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Moore, Candice Eleanor (2011) Governing Parties and Southern Internationalism: a neoclassical realist approach to the foreign policies of South Africa and Brazil, 1999-2010. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Moreno de Barreda, Ines (2011) Essays in applied economic theory. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Morley, Julia (2011) Sequences of change in financial reporting: the influence of financial economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mukim, Megha (2011) Essays in trade and economic geography. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nathan, Max (2011) The economics of cultural diversity: lessons from British cities. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nhamo, Mercy (2011) The role of churches in tackling HIV stigma in eastern Zimbabwe. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nilotpal, Kumar (2011) Egoism, anomie and masculinity: suicide in rural South India (Andhra Pradesh). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nissan-Rozen, Ittay (2011) Doing the best one can (while trying to do better). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nwosu, Udoka (2011) Head of state immunity in international law. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Obrecht, Alice (2011) Getting it right: an account of the moral agency of NGOs. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pallaver, Matteo (2011) Power and its forms: hard, soft, smart. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pandya, Abhijit P.G. (2011) Interpretations and coherence of the fair and equitable treatment standard in investment treaty arbitration. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Papanicolas, Irene (2011) The new NHS: financial incentives for quality? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Park, Sujin (2011) Consistent estimator of ex-post covariation of discretely observed diffusion processes and its application to high frequency financial time series. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pes, Luca Giuseppe (2011) Building political relations: cooperation, segmentation and government in Bancoumana (Mali). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard (2011) Sacrificing sovereignty by chance: investment treaties, developing countries, and bounded rationality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Priego Hernández, Jacqueline (2011) Sexual and reproductive health among indigenous Mexican adolescents: a socio-representational perspective. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ravenscroft, Penelope Lynne (2011) Punish and be damned: judicial discretion in juvenile courts: the welfare and punishment dichotomy in England/Wales and Scotland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Redclift, Victoria (2011) Histories of displacement and the creation of political space: "statelessness" and citizenship in Bangladesh. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ren, Yu (2011) The methodology of flowgraph models. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Renouf, Jean S. (2011) Understanding how the identity of international aid agencies and their approaches to security are mutually shaped. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rodano, Giacomo (2011) Inequality, bankruptcy and the macroeconomy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rodriguez d’Acri, Costanza (2011) Bridging the divide: firms and institutional variety in Italy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ronnen, Edite (2011) Mediation in a conflict society: an ethnographic view on mediation processes in Israel. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ross, Sandy (2011) Everyday economics: ideas new and old from lay theories of economic life. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rossi, Francesca (2011) Improved tests for spatial autoregressions. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sabaratnam, Meera (2011) Re-thinking the liberal peace: anti-colonial thought and post-war intervention in Mozambique. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Senchaudhuri, Esha (2011) A critique of pure public reason. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Singh, Amarjit (2011) A strategy and framework for identifying compliance requirements under international law (with an illustration relating to international human rights norms). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sowers, Thomas S. (2011) Nanomanagement: superior control and subordinate autonomy in conflict: mid-level officers of the U.S. and British armies in Iraq (2003-2008). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Srivastava, Divya (2011) An analysis of the determinants of access to medicines and health care in developing country settings. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stein, Daniel (2011) Rainfall index insurance in India. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stergiou, Vasiliki (2011) The complex relationship of concentrated ownership structures and corporate governance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Taylor, Ashley (2011) The macroeconomic impact of financial reforms: interactions and spillover. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Templeton, Jessica (2011) Framing elite policy discourse: science and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Theodoropoulou, Paraskevi-Vivi (2011) The introduction of digital television in the UK: a study of its early audience. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thompson, Christopher Jeremy (2011) Beyond epistemic democracy: the identification and pooling of information by groups of political agents. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thomson, Sarah (2011) Voluntary health insurance and health system performance in the European Union. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tijmstra, Sylvia A. R. (2011) Spaces of regionalism and the rescaling of government: a theoretical framework with British cases. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Topgyal, Tsering (2011) The insecurity dilemma and the Sino-Tibetan conflict. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Torres Vitolas, Carlos Alberto (2011) Social capital in poor communities: a case study from rural northern Peru. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Uffer, Sabina (2011) The uneven development of Berlin’s housing provision. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (2011) Workers’ self-management in the ‘Yugoslav road to socialism’: market, mobilisation and political conflict 1948-1962. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vaughan, Catherine Maree (2011) A picture of health: participation, photovoice and preventing HIV among Papua New Guinean youth. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Venter, György (2011) Essays on asymmetric information and trading constraints. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wang, Yiyi (2011) Rational bubble, short-dated volatility forecasting and extract more from the volatility surface. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wilkoszewski, Harald (2011) Germany's social policy challenge: public integenerational transfers in light of demographic change. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wong, Baldwin (2011) Contractarianism’s dilemma: on the normativity of contemporary contractarian theories. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wood, Andrew B. (2011) The limits of social mobility: social origins and career patterns of British generals, 1688-1815. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yasgur, Stuart (2011) Reasons, rationality and preferences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yu, Ai (2011) Facilitating organisational change and innovation: activating intellectual capital within a learning paradigm. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhang, Qi (2011) The Balassa-Samuelson relationship: theory, evidence and implications. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhu, Chenwei (2011) Authoring collaborative projects: a study of intellectual property and free and open source software (FOSS) licensing schemes from a relational contract perspective. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Żurawski , Piotr Marcin (2011) Essays on market liquidity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.