This thesis responds to calls from prominent academics for research on the so-called investment management ‘black box’ of decision-making practices in capital markets. Motivated by four overarching research objectives, the study examines the followi... Read More about Decision-making in the fund management industry: Empirical evidence from European fund managers, buy-side analysts and sell-side analysts.
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Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
We investigate within the context of Vietnam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify ho... Read More about Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap.
Investigating the effect of managerial compensation incentives on investment and financing decisions (1077) (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The five safes of risk-based anonymization (2019)
Journal Article
The sharing of data for the purposes of data analysis and research can have many benefits. At the same time, concerns and controversies about data ownership and data privacy elicit significant debate. So how do we utilize data in a way that protects... Read More about The five safes of risk-based anonymization.
Government Say-on-Pay, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Evidence from China (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In the backdrop of a serial of regulations issued by the Chinese government in an effort to rein in top executives’ compensation in the state-owned enterprises, this study finds that the pay restriction on top executives adversely affects the CSR per... Read More about Government Say-on-Pay, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Evidence from China.
Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients (2019)
Journal Article
A major growth area in social science research this century has been access to highly sensitive confidential microdata, often via restricted-access remote facilities. These allow researchers highly unlimited access to manipulate the data but with che... Read More about Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients.
Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model (2019)
Journal Article
We present a New Keynesian model in which a fraction n of agents are fully rational, and a fraction 1 − n of agents are bounded rational. After deriving a simple reduced form, we demonstrate that the Taylor condition is sufficient for determinacy and... Read More about Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model.
Educational attainment and the Brexit vote (2019)
Journal Article
The Brexit vote is the most significant political event in recent British history. We present bivariate choropleth maps comparing the Leave vote share with age-adjusted secondary educational attainment. This provides an immediate visual representatio... Read More about Educational attainment and the Brexit vote.
Not just arms and legs: Student working and the local labour market (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution