Outputs (925)

Five Safes: Designing data access for research
Preprint / Working Paper

What is the best way of managing access to sensitive data? This is not a straightforward question, as it involves the interaction of legal, technical, statistical and, above all, human components to produce a solution. This paper introduces a modelli... Read More about Five Safes: Designing data access for research.

What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?
Book Chapter

Climate change makes many challenges on suburban areas. This chapter focuses on one of the multiple problematics of climate change: the challenge of overheating. Reporting on evidence from the EPSRC-funded SNACC project (EP/G061289/1), the chapter... Read More about What is hindering adaptation to climate change in the English suburbs, and what would help facilitate action?.

Measuring non-compliance with minimum wages
Preprint / Working Paper

Many countries have a statutory minimum wage for employees. There is a strong policy interest in knowing the degree of compliance with the law. Quantitative analysis is ideally suited to this, and many countries have rich datasets for employment rese... Read More about Measuring non-compliance with minimum wages.

Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to administrative data for research?
Preprint / Working Paper

The re-use of administrative data for social research holds great potential. From a privacy perspective, administrative data present some additional challenges, including lack of consent, existence of matching databases, and the association with data... Read More about Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to administrative data for research?.

Do shadow banks create money? 'Financialisation' and the monetary circuit
Preprint / Working Paper

The rise of the shadow banking system is viewed throught the lens of Graziani's Monetary Theory of Production. Graziani's categories of 'initial finance' and 'final finance' are used to analyse the new forms of credit created in the shadow banking se... Read More about Do shadow banks create money? 'Financialisation' and the monetary circuit.

Business partnering as a complement to the accountant’s other roles: International survey evidence
Preprint / Working Paper

Cases involving change towards a more strongly business-oriented, or business partnering, role for accountants have been documented but evidence of the extent of such change more widely is sparse and indicates limited adoption of the role in practice... Read More about Business partnering as a complement to the accountant’s other roles: International survey evidence.

Entrepreneurship in Wales policy developments and new models
Journal Article

A manual on macroeconomic fundamentals for conflict-affected states
Book

Increasingly, peace agreements and economic development programs reference the centrality of sound economic policy and a stable macroeconomic framework in state-building efforts. But few practitioners have the background to know what this means and t... Read More about A manual on macroeconomic fundamentals for conflict-affected states.

Determining military expenditures: Arms races and spill-over effects in cross-section and panel data
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper considers the determinants of military spending, building on an emerging literature that estimates military expenditure demand functions in cross-section and panel data, incorporating ‘arms-race’ type effects. It updates Dunne and Perlo-Fr... Read More about Determining military expenditures: Arms races and spill-over effects in cross-section and panel data.

Costing, funding and budgetary control in UK hospitals: An historical reflection
Preprint / Working Paper