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Climate change, financial stability and monetary policy
Preprint / Working Paper

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. Emphasis is placed on th... Read More about Climate change, financial stability and monetary policy.

Practice or theory? A phenomenographic study of teachers’ perceptions of teaching auditing in higher education
Thesis

In recent years the business world has become more complex and the role of the professional auditor has had to change in order to address this increasing complexity. What had been seen as a technical compliance role has now evolved to include higher... Read More about Practice or theory? A phenomenographic study of teachers’ perceptions of teaching auditing in higher education.

An econometric study of the West of England LEP priority sectors
Report

This research has explained some of the differences in economic performance between the West of England (WoE) and its constituent parts (places and sectors) and national ‘control’ averages and other sub-regional areas. Part of the explanation wh... Read More about An econometric study of the West of England LEP priority sectors.

Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky model
Preprint / Working Paper

Wynne Godley and Hyman Minsky were two macroeconomists who ‘saw the crisis coming’. This paper develops a simple macrodynamic model that synthesises some key perspectives of their analytical frameworks. The model incorporates Godley’s financial balan... Read More about Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky model.

Analysing Finance and Production in the Contemporary Capitalist Era
Preprint / Working Paper

here has been a dramatic restructuring of the global economy as the dictates of neoliberalism have reconfigured the contemporary capitalist system of accumulation which has involved a seismic shift from industrial to finance capital. There have been... Read More about Analysing Finance and Production in the Contemporary Capitalist Era.

A new growth path for South African industrialisation: An input-output analysis
Report

This paper looks at the way in which the structure of the economy has been built through the economic policies of the Apartheid government and reinforced in the first sixteen years of democracy. It is argued that previous growth paths have resulted i... Read More about A new growth path for South African industrialisation: An input-output analysis.

The New Price Makers: An investigation into the impact of financial investment on coffee price behaviour
Preprint / Working Paper

The collapse of the international commodity agreements in the 1980s, together with the liberalisation of marketing systems in commodity exporting developing countries under structural adjustment programs have removed the role of the state in the pric... Read More about The New Price Makers: An investigation into the impact of financial investment on coffee price behaviour.

The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains
Preprint / Working Paper

The 1990s has seen a shift in policy from multilateral price stabilisation schemes towards market liberalisation and private risk management strategies in the context of income stabilisation for agro-commodity exporting low-income countries. This pap... Read More about The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains.

Why do foreign firms invest in south west England?
Preprint / Working Paper

Regional Development Agencies compete to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) that generate economic benefits. This paper seeks to identify factors that attract FDI to the South West region of the UK. The results suggest that the South West’s ave... Read More about Why do foreign firms invest in south west England?.

Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression
Preprint / Working Paper

The recent growth in research access to confidential government microdata has prompted the development of more general 'output-based statistical disclosure control' (OSDC) methods which go beyond tabular protection. Central to OSDC is the concept of... Read More about Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression.