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Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here? (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) has been used for tackling major research questions in macroeconomics for at least two decades. This growing field positions itself as an alternative to dynamic stochastic gene... Read More about Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here?.

The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 SAGE Publications. This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent so... Read More about The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis.

The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of accounting development and the adoption of IFRS in the four foremost economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—Egypt, Jordan, Libya and UAE. Through the lens of institutional th... Read More about The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries.

Exploring our latent potential (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author/s and IPPR. Moving towards an economy of freedom.

Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depressio... Read More about Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind.

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0 (2018)
Journal Article

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0

Outra fantasia desfeita, outro balanço crítico (2018)
Journal Article

Can green QE reduce global warming? (2018)
Other

The idea of a green QE (quantitative easing) programme has gained a lot of traction over the last years. It has been argued that by implementing such a programme central banks could contribute to the fight against climate change. Our recent research... Read More about Can green QE reduce global warming?.

Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems (2018)
Report

Power to Change was established by the Big Lottery as an organisation whose mission is to fund community businesses and through such investment make an impact on the most disadvantaged places in England. Through setting its mission to target the most... Read More about Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems.

Inequality and aggregate demand in the is-lm and is-mp models (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper presents an extension to the textbook IS-LM and IS-MP models that allows the short run effects of an increase in household income inequality to be st... Read More about Inequality and aggregate demand in the is-lm and is-mp models.

Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Association for Comparative Economic Studies We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large represent... Read More about Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries.

The idiosyncratic pattern of Russian corporate dividend policy during its formative era (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics © 2018 CIRIEC In general, the dividend payout pattern for Russian corporations during their formative period from 1998 to 2006 was seemingly independent of company earnings, size, growth o... Read More about The idiosyncratic pattern of Russian corporate dividend policy during its formative era.

Climate Change, Financial Stability and Monetary Policy (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors 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. Empha... Read More about Climate Change, Financial Stability and Monetary Policy.

Pricing behavior and the role of trade openness in the transmission of monetary shocks (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The empirical evidence on the role of trade openness in the monetary transmission is not conclusive: some studies find that it increases the sensitivity of output to monetary shocks, others find that it does not. Using a New Keynesian open eco... Read More about Pricing behavior and the role of trade openness in the transmission of monetary shocks.

Does connectedness improve SMEs’ access to formal finance? Evidence from post-communist economies (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Evidence suggests that a disproportionately greater share of formal finance is channelled to large enterprises in emerging economies, limiting the flow of appropriately-financed... Read More about Does connectedness improve SMEs’ access to formal finance? Evidence from post-communist economies.

Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators (2018)
Journal Article

The academic and policy debate regarding the role of central banks and financial regulators in addressing climate-related financial risks has rapidly expanded in recent years. This Perspective presents the key controversies and discusses potential re... Read More about Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators.

National Accounts Training for Modern Financial Systems (ONS Report 16-7-2018 V2) (2018)
Report

Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching (2018)
Journal Article

This article offers a critique of a major recent initiative in economics teaching: the CORE project. CORE emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis, which was also something of a crisis for economics. The article deploys four evaluative crit... Read More about Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching.

Graphchain: A blockchain-free scalable decentralised ledger (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Blockchain-based replicated ledgers, pioneered in Bitcoin, are effective against double spending, but inherently attract centralised mining pools and incompressible transaction delays. We propose a framew... Read More about Graphchain: A blockchain-free scalable decentralised ledger.

Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 The Association for Social Economics. This paper evaluates the recent reform to the curricular governance framework for UK Economics teaching: the revised Subject Benchmark Statement document for Economics (SBSE). The crisis of confide... Read More about Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement.