A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards (2012)
Journal Article

The standard description of Fermi acceleration, developing in a class of time-dependent billiards, is given in terms of a diffusion process taking place in momentum space. Within this framework, the evolution of the probability density function (PDF)... Read More about A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards.

Whither corporate Russia (2012)
Journal Article

Using firm-level information obtained from the Russian Trading System stock exchange from 1998 through 2006, we estimate growth performance of the Russian corporate sector. We find consistently improving growth, and note that higher growth performanc... Read More about Whither corporate Russia.

Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study (2012)
Journal Article

Most university departments aspire to increase their quantity of students. The objective of this empirical study is to ascertain whether it is possible to identify students who would demand more economics study. Using data on student perceptions of e... Read More about Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study.

Working poor, labour market and social protection in the EU: A comparative perspective (2012)
Journal Article

Does pluralism in economics education make better educated, happier students? A qualitative analysis (2012)
Journal Article

Global commodity chains and global value chains (2012)
Book Chapter

This entry draws out some of the key features of GCC/GVC analyses and other closely related approaches, not only to appraise them critically in and of themselves but also by way of pointing to their contribution to the understanding of contemporary c... Read More about Global commodity chains and global value chains.

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
Journal Article

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.

Finance, inflation and employment: A post-Keynesian/Kaleckian analysis (2011)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the post-Keynesian/Kaleckian macroeconomic literature. We develop a macroeconomic model that explicitly integrates the role of borrowing and cash payment commitments on outstanding debt (interest plus pri... Read More about Finance, inflation and employment: A post-Keynesian/Kaleckian analysis.

Low-income countries and commodity price volatility (2011)
Book Chapter

Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa (2011)
Journal Article

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced in July 2010 its intention to introduce a new amnesty for illegal capital flight. For a flat rate fee of 10 per cent of the value of the assets, corporations and individuals disclosing their illegal exp... Read More about Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa.

The crisis in South Africa: Neoliberalism, financialization and uneven and combined development (2011)
Journal Article

South Africa is now, ‘officially’, the most unequal society in the world – though there seems to be a macabre rivalry with Brazil for this status. The poorest 20 per cent of South Africans receive 1.6 per cent of total income while the richest 20 per... Read More about The crisis in South Africa: Neoliberalism, financialization and uneven and combined development.

Book review: Money, distribution conflict and capital accumulation: Contributions to ‘Monetary Analysis’ by Eckhard Hein (2010)
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The Financial Services Act 2010: how will the FSA rise to meet its new challenges? (2010)
Journal Article

The United Kingdom’s (UK) financial services industry and regulators were rocked by the recent global financial crisis. The Financial Services Act 2010 (the Act) provides the Financial Services Authority (FSA) with more powers and statutory duties in... Read More about The Financial Services Act 2010: how will the FSA rise to meet its new challenges?.

Productivity in Wales: analysis of the impacts of peripherality on spatial patterns of productivity (2010)
Report

The credit crunch and mortgage fraud- too little too late? A comparative analysis of the policies adopted in the United States of America and the United Kingdom (2010)
Book Chapter

Boom or bust: Coffee farmers seldom benefit (2010)
Journal Article

This article discusses the impact on farmers of coffee price increases and falls.

The credit crunch - Are credit unions able to ride out the storm? (2009)
Journal Article

Credit unions are financial co-operatives that conduct their business for their members. The principal purpose of a credit union is to receive deposits from and make loans to members. They do not serve the general public. Membership is restricted by... Read More about The credit crunch - Are credit unions able to ride out the storm?.

The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market performance: A micro-data panel study for Germany 1975–2004 (2009)
Journal Article

The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975 - 2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Clas... Read More about The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market performance: A micro-data panel study for Germany 1975–2004.

Financialization and changes in the social relations along commodity chains: The case of coffee (2009)
Journal Article

This article examines distributional implications of the restructuring of international coffee markets that has occurred since the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 and market liberalization in coffee producing countries under st... Read More about Financialization and changes in the social relations along commodity chains: The case of coffee.

Regional productivity differentials in England: Explaining the gap (2009)
Journal Article

Significant and persistent differences in regional productivity exist across most countries and are the subject of academic and policy concern. We use plant-level data to examine the determinants of regional productivity differentials across regions... Read More about Regional productivity differentials in England: Explaining the gap.