Corporate social (Ir)responsibility and corporate hypocrisy: Warmth, motive and the protective value of corporate social responsibility (2020)
Journal Article

This article examines how a firm’s prior record on corporate social responsibility (CSR) influences individual stakeholders’ perceptions of corporate hypocrisy in the wake of a corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) event. Our research extends extan... Read More about Corporate social (Ir)responsibility and corporate hypocrisy: Warmth, motive and the protective value of corporate social responsibility.

Why does the history of economic thought neglect post-Keynesian economics? (2020)
Journal Article

Despite receiving increased interest after the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and consolidating itself as an established research program, Post-Keynesian economics remains under-represented within publications on the history of economics. When... Read More about Why does the history of economic thought neglect post-Keynesian economics?.

Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model (2019)
Journal Article

We present a New Keynesian model in which a fraction n of agents are fully rational, and a fraction 1 − n of agents are bounded rational. After deriving a simple reduced form, we demonstrate that the Taylor condition is sufficient for determinacy and... Read More about Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model.

An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores Robert E. Lucas’s policy agenda and his engagement with the public debate between the late 1960s and late 1980s. It investigates how he interacted with the public debate by envisioning key principles of his macroeconomic theory... Read More about An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate.

The Urban Food Question in the Context of Inequality and Dietary Change: A Study of Schoolchildren in Accra (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Diets are changing globally, as agricultural and food systems have become globalised. Understanding how patterns of globalisation affect welfare is a key development question, bu... Read More about The Urban Food Question in the Context of Inequality and Dietary Change: A Study of Schoolchildren in Accra.

Discursive strategies in the keynes-hayek debate: Building a liberal critique (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. This article addresses an analysis of discourse based on Michel Foucault's 'order of discourse' to comprehend which... Read More about Discursive strategies in the keynes-hayek debate: Building a liberal critique.

Short and medium term financial-real cycles: An empirical assessment (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Theories such as Minsky's financial instability hypothesis or New Keynesian financial accelerator models assign a key role to financial factors in business cycle dynamics. We propose a simple VAR-based estimation framework to exam... Read More about Short and medium term financial-real cycles: An empirical assessment.

Macroeconomics, development economics, and biographical topics: Two years in the history of economic thought (2016-2017) (2019)
Journal Article

This article provides a formal account of some of the major themes that shaped the history of economic thought during the biennium 2016-2017. It focuses on three areas, namely, macroeconomics, development economics, and the lives and ideas of selecte... Read More about Macroeconomics, development economics, and biographical topics: Two years in the history of economic thought (2016-2017).

Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought (2018)
Journal Article

Daniela Tavasci and Luigi Ventimiglia, two scholars from the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London (uk), edited a volume that brings together the contributions of economics educators to the teaching of the history of eco... Read More about Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought.

Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways (2018)
Journal Article

There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary con... Read More about Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways.

Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This article focuses on a neglected part of the well-known Balassa–Samuelson (B-S) effect in international trade, namely, the specific role of tourism in equilibrating the purchasing power parities across areas. The article aims... Read More about Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity.

The evolution of manufacturing in the Gauteng city-region: From de-industrialization to re-industrialization? (2018)
Book Chapter

The South African economy has long been dominated by what Fine and Rustomjee (1996) call the “Minerals-Energy Complex” (MEC). Much South African ‘manufacturing’ has been connected to this capital intensive MEC core of the economy, with manufacturing... Read More about The evolution of manufacturing in the Gauteng city-region: From de-industrialization to re-industrialization?.

Behavioural New Keynesian models (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 This paper provides a bird's eye view of the behavioural New Keynesian literature. We discuss three key empirical regularities in macroeconomic data which are not accounted for by the standard New Keynesian model, namely, excess kurtosis, stoc... Read More about Behavioural New Keynesian models.

Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here? (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) has been used for tackling major research questions in macroeconomics for at least two decades. This growing field positions itself as an alternative to dynamic stochastic gene... Read More about Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here?.

Exploring our latent potential (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author/s and IPPR. Moving towards an economy of freedom.

Can green QE reduce global warming? (2018)
Other

The idea of a green QE (quantitative easing) programme has gained a lot of traction over the last years. It has been argued that by implementing such a programme central banks could contribute to the fight against climate change. Our recent research... Read More about Can green QE reduce global warming?.

Climate Change, Financial Stability and Monetary Policy (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors Using a stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model, we analyse (i) the effects of climate change on financial stability and (ii) the financial and global warming implications of a green quantitative easing (QE) programme. Empha... Read More about Climate Change, Financial Stability and Monetary Policy.

Does connectedness improve SMEs’ access to formal finance? Evidence from post-communist economies (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Evidence suggests that a disproportionately greater share of formal finance is channelled to large enterprises in emerging economies, limiting the flow of appropriately-financed... Read More about Does connectedness improve SMEs’ access to formal finance? Evidence from post-communist economies.

Financialisation and development: How can emerging economies catch up? (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper

The influences of financialisation over emerging economies have drawn significant attention on whether these nations are able or not to overcome its constraints and promote satisfactory development levels. The possibilities for overcoming financial d... Read More about Financialisation and development: How can emerging economies catch up?.

Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators (2018)
Journal Article

The academic and policy debate regarding the role of central banks and financial regulators in addressing climate-related financial risks has rapidly expanded in recent years. This Perspective presents the key controversies and discusses potential re... Read More about Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators.