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A stages approach to banking development in transition economies (2008)
Journal Article

Credit shortages are widely thought to explain the output contraction in former Soviet Union (FSU) countries during the 1990s. It is argued here that these shortages were the result of an ahistorical approach to policymaking which ignored the time ne... Read More about A stages approach to banking development in transition economies.

The UK research and development satellite account: A preliminary analysis (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents preliminary analysis treating the consumption of research and experimental development (R&D) as investment in an intangible scientific asset, in line with proposed revisions to the United Nations System of National Accounts. The p... Read More about The UK research and development satellite account: A preliminary analysis.

The demand for military expenditure in developing countries: Hostility versus capability (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper considers the interpretation of the empirical results of the developing literature on the demand for military spending that specifies a general model with arms race and spill-over effects and estimates it on cross-section and panel data. I... Read More about The demand for military expenditure in developing countries: Hostility versus capability.

Rare disasters and the equity risk premium in a two-country world (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We extend the Barro (2006) closed-economy model of the equity risk premium in the presence of extreme events ("disasters") to a two-country world. In this more general setting, both the output risk of rare disasters and the associated risk of a defau... Read More about Rare disasters and the equity risk premium in a two-country world.

Anticipating the impact of IFRS on the management of German manufacturing companies: some observations from a British perspective (2008)
Book Chapter

Being "pulled up short": Creating moments of surprise and possibility in accounting education (2008)
Journal Article

This paper identifies characteristic features of a pedagogic approach that may be used effectively within a dialogical approach to accounting education. The development of the ideas in the paper arose as a form of praxis: moments of surprise within t... Read More about Being "pulled up short": Creating moments of surprise and possibility in accounting education.

The demand for food in south Africa 1 (2008)
Journal Article

Food consumption is an important issue in South Africa, given its relation to poverty and deprivation. With the pressing need to increase food security, understanding the determinants of the demand for food and having some estimates of the likely imp... Read More about The demand for food in south Africa 1.

Poverty, networks and location: The determinants of job-search in South Africa (2008)
Journal Article

Previous work into the decision to search or not for work when unemployed has found that local unemployment rates, education level and social networks are important in the case of South Africa. This paper introduces a number of additional variables i... Read More about Poverty, networks and location: The determinants of job-search in South Africa.

The impact of firm characteristics on management accounting practices: A UK-based empirical analysis (2008)
Journal Article

There has been sustained interest in explaining why firms adopt different management accounting practices (MAPs). This paper applies contingency theory to respond empirically to calls by Gerdin [2005. Management accounting system design in manufactur... Read More about The impact of firm characteristics on management accounting practices: A UK-based empirical analysis.

Beyond 'access': Internet use and take-up of online services by adults living in disadvantaged areas in England (2008)
Journal Article

Much discussion of the 'digital divide' has focused around the issue of access to technology and how this plays out in relation to different groups from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This paper draws on survey data from a national evaluation project... Read More about Beyond 'access': Internet use and take-up of online services by adults living in disadvantaged areas in England.