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Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky synthesis (2017)
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© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. Wynne Godley and Hyman Minsky were two macroeconomists who 'saw the crisis coming'. This paper develops a simple mac... Read More about Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky synthesis.

Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence. Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the research to date is rooted in western experiences.... Read More about Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness.

Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displ... Read More about Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries.

A conditional regime switching CAPM (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The standard Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is simple, intuitive, and grounded in sound economic theory. Yet, almost half a century's worth of empirical testing has so far failed to demonstrate its relevance. One major reason... Read More about A conditional regime switching CAPM.

The Limits of Instrumentalism: Informal Work and Gendered Cycles of Food Insecurity in Mozambique (2017)
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The instrumentalist literature suggests that women can help achieve household food security if they have access to productive resources but do not become overburdened as a result... Read More about The Limits of Instrumentalism: Informal Work and Gendered Cycles of Food Insecurity in Mozambique.

Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action (2017)
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Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Understanding how community groups take on the challenge of climate change is key to understanding the capacity of society as a whole to adapt in the face of climate change in ways that acknowledge a bro... Read More about Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action.

Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: The EU enlargement experience in England and Wales (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study the links between this migrant inflow and life satisfaction of native reside... Read More about Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: The EU enlargement experience in England and Wales.

Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies (2017)
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Although small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent more than 90% of all enterprises and play an important role in employment generation, they lack access to affordable formal finance. Conventionally, market failures and information imperfe... Read More about Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies.

Learning groups: the effects of group diversity on the quality of group reflection (2017)
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study explores the quality of reflection, and how group diversity affects group reflection by final-year accounting and finance undergraduates using Mezirow’s [(1991). Transformativ... Read More about Learning groups: the effects of group diversity on the quality of group reflection.

Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal th... Read More about Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region.