All Outputs (337)

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.

SMEs access to formal finance in post-communist economies: Do institutional structure and political connectedness matter?
Preprint / Working Paper

In post-communist economies, a disproportionately greater share of formal finance is channelled to larger enterprises and SMEs lack appropriately-priced formal finance. This article examines whether institutional structure and interpersonal connected... Read More about SMEs access to formal finance in post-communist economies: Do institutional structure and political connectedness matter?.

Examining neighbourhood plans in England: The experience so far
Preprint / Working Paper

The planning system in England has undergone serial and far-reaching reforms over the past two decades with a number of notable changes reflecting a drive to speed-up planning, rescale it and look towards the neighbourhood as a unit
of planning gove... Read More about Examining neighbourhood plans in England: The experience so far.

Briefing note: Neighbourhood planning examinations
Preprint / Working Paper

A briefing note on research in progress on the role of neighbourhood plan examination.

Devolution aspects of Brexit
Preprint / Working Paper

A post Brexit referendum report on devolution and agriculture, written for the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and the Farmer Scientist Network.

Managing the inshore marine environment in the marine and coastal access act era: The Welsh experience
Preprint / Working Paper

Fellow Authors, Lewis, K. (Aberystwyth University) and Bullimore, B. ( Marine Environmental Consultant)

This study investigated the Welsh Government’s approach to inshore fisheries management since commencement of the provisions in the 2009 Marine... Read More about Managing the inshore marine environment in the marine and coastal access act era: The Welsh experience.

Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique
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This paper offers a multi-dimensional critique of recent reforms to UK Economics curricular frameworks. The paper assesses the reforms in terms of their extent and the positions taken within them on their approach to economics, treatment of politics,... Read More about Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique.

The European referendum: Agriculture, food and rural policy issues
Preprint / Working Paper

Pre-referendum briefing paper on agricultural and food aspects of Brexit.

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.

The management of the UK's public fishery: A large squatting claim?
Preprint / Working Paper

The UK’s fishery is a public asset worth in the region of £1,125 million. The free allocation of quota to commercial businesses on the basis of 2 years’ track record is a similar process to permitting that public asset to be squatted. The complex a... Read More about The management of the UK's public fishery: A large squatting claim?.

What if police bail was abolished?
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper presents an argument for the abolition of police bail without charge. The police have extensive powers to release on bail a person who they have arrested, without charging them with an offence. Moreover, they have extensive powers to attac... Read More about What if police bail was abolished?.

A stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper develops a stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model that combines the stock-flow consistent approach of Godley and Lavoie with the flow fund model of Georgescu-Roegen. The model has the following key features. First, monetary and phy... Read More about A stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model.

The implications of brexit for UK agriculture
Preprint / Working Paper

A multi-authored briefing paper prepared for the Yorkshire Agricultural Society/The Farmer Scientist Network to inform the debate on the EU referendum in relation to agriculture.

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.

The elusive meaning of success for student and tutors in a business school: A learning and teaching project
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This working paper presents the findings of a student/tutor participative inquiry into the meaning of ‘success’ for students in the university. The paper tells the story of how the inquiry developed, and analyses how learning developed through co-inq... Read More about The elusive meaning of success for student and tutors in a business school: A learning and teaching project.

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?.

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.

Written evidence submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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This paper was submitted in response to question 4 of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence* on: 'The social, legal and ethical issues raised by developments in robotics and artificial inte... Read More about Written evidence submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Written evidence for the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy Conflict, Stability and Security Fund inquiry - publications
Preprint / Working Paper

The evidence will first discuss the disconnection existing between policy makers and academics in the context of threat analysis and organised crime control policy making.

France at Reims: The Fourteenth Centenary of the Baptism of Clovis, 1896
Preprint / Working Paper

UWE History, Neil Edmunds’ Fund, Occasional Papers No. 3, November 2013