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Do central banks act asymmetrically? Empirical evidence from the ECB and the bank of England (2005)
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The paper attempts to exploit whether monetary authorities have a different behaviour during recession and expansion. To this end, a multivariate extension of Hamilton Markov-switching model is adopted. First, regime dependent Taylor-type rules are e... Read More about Do central banks act asymmetrically? Empirical evidence from the ECB and the bank of England.

Anticipating the impact of IFRS on the management of German manufacturing companies: Some observations from a British perspective (2005)
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Cross-country asymmetries in monetary policy transmission: Evidence from EMU members (2005)
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This paper analyzes monetary policy asymmetries in EMU participating countries. In particular, we use a structural dynamic modelling approach to investigate asymmetric monetary transmission in Europe. Asymmetries are investigated in two different way... Read More about Cross-country asymmetries in monetary policy transmission: Evidence from EMU members.

The economic benefits, organisational structure and governance of the motability scheme: A consumption opportunity set model (2005)
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This paper examines the Motability scheme which enables disabled people to obtain cars on a leasing basis in the UK. The scheme is centred around Motability, a charity, which has an arms-length relationship with a government department, and a close r... Read More about The economic benefits, organisational structure and governance of the motability scheme: A consumption opportunity set model.

The UK defence electronics industry: Adjusting to change (2004)
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The electronics industry provides components and capabilities that are critical to modern defence requirements. It is anticipated that the effectiveness of both weapons systems and the command and control network that supports military operations wil... Read More about The UK defence electronics industry: Adjusting to change.

The International Accounting Standards Board's search for a general purpose accounting model (2004)
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The racial employment gap in South Africa (2004)
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The aim of this paper was to estimate whether the probability of an employment gap between White and African, and Coloured and Asian labour force participants had changed between 1995 and 2002. For each of the four years the expected racial employmen... Read More about The racial employment gap in South Africa.

Who writes this stuff? Students’ perceptions of their skills development (2004)
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Bennett et al. (2000) refer to the notion of ‘core skills’ as an ‘unfulfilled concept’. Thus it is Q1 possible that different interpretations and values at the level of actual degree programmes may be hidden within this term. This study enquires in... Read More about Who writes this stuff? Students’ perceptions of their skills development.

Approaches to learning in accounting education (2004)
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Regional factor price convergence across four major European countries (2003)
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Neo-classical growth models predict that the free movement of goods and factors will result in the spatial convergence of output and an ensuing convergence of factor prices. Based on distribution free statistics, this paper presents an empirical exam... Read More about Regional factor price convergence across four major European countries.