Outputs (43)

Immanent Critique, Enabling Myths, and the Neoliberal Narrative (2015)
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© 2015, © 2015 Union for Radical Political Economics. This research aims to untangle and critically assess the core enabling myths of neoliberalism. The first step is to outline in brief the method of immanent critique, how it works, as well as its a... Read More about Immanent Critique, Enabling Myths, and the Neoliberal Narrative.

Six degrees of cultural diversity and R&D output efficiency: Cultural percolation of new ideas: an illustrative analysis of Europe (2015)
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© 2015, The Author(s). This paper seeks to highlight the efficiency of R&D output as a function of a cultural treatment (i.e. exposure) effect. The focus of our research is on the percolation of new R&D ideas from the immaterial world of creative ide... Read More about Six degrees of cultural diversity and R&D output efficiency: Cultural percolation of new ideas: an illustrative analysis of Europe.

A step too far? The European financial transactions tax on shadow banking (2015)
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This paper focuses on the European Commission's proposals to include the repo market – a market systemic to European (shadow) banking – in the financial transactions tax (FTT). It asks why the FTT governments negotiating under the enhanced co-operati... Read More about A step too far? The European financial transactions tax on shadow banking.

Rebuilding "Time to Build": A history of the real business cycle models (2015)
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A review essay on Warren Young, Real Business Cycle Models in Economics, London: Routledge, 2014, xv + 184 pages. ISBN 9780415475693

Reflections on the one-minute paper (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper captures the perceptions of both a new academic and his students on the use of the one-minute paper (OMP). Much of the originality of this paper derives from the multi-layered qualitative approach... Read More about Reflections on the one-minute paper.

What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics (2015)
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© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article uses UK data to consider how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 1 coped during the recent financial crisis. This is important, as SMEs are major contributors to job creation, but are vulnerable to fa... Read More about What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics.

Temporary versus permanent employment: Does health matter? (2015)
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Poor health may inhibit active participation in the labour market and restrict the types of employment available to an individual. This paper uses recent survey data from New Zealand and employs a bivariate probit approach (to address sample selecti... Read More about Temporary versus permanent employment: Does health matter?.

Dynamic depositor discipline: Evidence based on East Asian banks (2015)
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This study confirms the endogenous relationship between the price and quantity of deposits in the depositor discipline model. Dynamic panel data analysis is carried out to account for the lagged dependency of the deposits growth variable and endogene... Read More about Dynamic depositor discipline: Evidence based on East Asian banks.

Kuznets’ swings and intangible investments in forecast: the case of Greece (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article offers an analysis of the relationship between intangible investments and the pattern of local economic productivity in Greece. There are two main objectives in the article: (i) to explore the pattern of econom... Read More about Kuznets’ swings and intangible investments in forecast: the case of Greece.

The ideologies of positive economics: Technocracy, laissez-faire, and the tensions of Friedman's methodological claims (2015)
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The purpose of this paper is to address some connections between Milton Friedman's classic essay on methodology and the rise of neoliberal thinking. In order to do so, it briefly reconstructs Friedman's methodological claims and reinterprets the deba... Read More about The ideologies of positive economics: Technocracy, laissez-faire, and the tensions of Friedman's methodological claims.