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A mixed methods approach to investment behavior (2016)
Book Chapter
Gezici, A. (2016). A mixed methods approach to investment behavior. In F. S. Lee (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics (303-324). Edward Elgar Publishing

Despite the important methodological critiques of the mainstream offered by heterodox economics, the dominant research method taught in heterodox programmes remains econometrics. This compelling Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to a ran... Read More about A mixed methods approach to investment behavior.

PhD thesis summary: Keynes, Keynesian economics and the political economy of power of the postwar world (2016)
Journal Article
Guizzo, D. (2016). PhD thesis summary: Keynes, Keynesian economics and the political economy of power of the postwar world

The economic origins and sociopolitical impacts of what became known as ‘Keynesian Economics’ have not received substantial attention from economists, political scientists, and philosophers about its mode of governance. This thesis explores the rise... Read More about PhD thesis summary: Keynes, Keynesian economics and the political economy of power of the postwar world.

(De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, M. (2017). (De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs. New Political Economy, 22(4), 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259303

Taking owner-occupation as the quintessential form of financialised housing provision, this paper investigates how housing cultures, understood as a set of shared behaviours and beliefs about housing, have been (re)shaped in the UK in a way that favo... Read More about (De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs.

The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mohamad Yunus, N., & Sahul Hamid, F. (2016). The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business & Economics (BE-ci 2016), 21-23 September, 2016, Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2016.11.02.35

Using a Household Income Survey (HIS), this study examines the private returns to education in Malaysian financial sector. First, we estimate the private returns to education using the highest certificate qualification or “sheepskin effects". Sec... Read More about The effects of over-education on returns in the graduate labour market.

The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2016)
Journal Article
Gabor, D., & Brooks, S. (2017). The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era. New Political Economy, 22(4), 423-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259298

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the growing importance of digital-based financial inclusion as a form of organising development interventions through networks of state institutions, international de... Read More about The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era.

Green Online vs Green Offline preferences on local public goods trade-offs and house prices (2016)
Journal Article
Tubadji, A., & Nijkamp, P. (2017). Green Online vs Green Offline preferences on local public goods trade-offs and house prices. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 58, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2016.11.001

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper focuses on the relationship between (i) house prices and (ii) local green public goods. The main objective of the paper is to analyse a specific house-pricing mechanism which reflects the utility of being Green Offline,... Read More about Green Online vs Green Offline preferences on local public goods trade-offs and house prices.

Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation (2016)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (2017). Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation. New Political Economy, 22(4), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259304

This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financi... Read More about Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation.

‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility (2016)
Journal Article
Hinks, T., Dawson, C., Hinks, T., & Veliziotis, M. (2017). ‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility. Bulletin of Economic Research, 69(4), 428-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12107

© 2016 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Individual's expected wages exceed predicted market wages. Rational expectations imply the divergence should be zero. If individuals over-estimate the return fr... Read More about ‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility.

The connectedness between crude oil and financial markets: Evidence from implied volatility indices (2016)
Journal Article
Awartani, B., Maghyereh, A., & Guermat, C. (2016). The connectedness between crude oil and financial markets: Evidence from implied volatility indices. Journal of Commodity Markets, 4(1), 56-69

In this paper we exploit newly introduced implied volatility indexes to investigate the directional risk transfer from oil to US equities, Euro/Dollar exchange rates, precious metals and agricultural commodities. We find significant volatility transm... Read More about The connectedness between crude oil and financial markets: Evidence from implied volatility indices.

A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions (2016)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Zhao, Z., & Tucker, J. (in press). A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions. Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services, 15(1),

This paper introduces a new regional “financial maturity index” (FMI) based on previous studies of financial development theory. We explore a unified measure of regional financial development by constructing a new composite financial maturity model.... Read More about A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions.

Puzzling Global Stochastic Trends in Growth, Interest and Inflation and the Volcker Disinflation (2016)
Journal Article
Heinlein, R., & Krolzig, H. M. (2018). Puzzling Global Stochastic Trends in Growth, Interest and Inflation and the Volcker Disinflation. Manchester School, 86(2), 178-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12175

© 2016 The University of Manchester and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper aims to identify the stable long-run relationships as well as unstable driving forces of the world economy using a small aggregated cointegrated VAR model encompassing quarter... Read More about Puzzling Global Stochastic Trends in Growth, Interest and Inflation and the Volcker Disinflation.

Financial systems in UK universities: A case study of three universities (2016)
Thesis
Dai, R. (2016). Financial systems in UK universities: A case study of three universities. (Thesis). University of Bristol. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1491331

Universities in the UK are having difficult times with growing external pressures such as the introduction of £9,000 tuition fee, deregulation of student number control, the increased level of competition for student recruitment and research funding,... Read More about Financial systems in UK universities: A case study of three universities.

Improving data quality: The value of the user as data detective (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ritchie, F. (2016, October). Improving data quality: The value of the user as data detective. Presented at Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders, Budapest, Hungary

In this presentation, we explore how users can contribute to a better understanding of data quality. We illustrate, with reference to minimum wage compliance, how users identify the sort of data problems missed by NSIs

Separation – integration – and now …? A historical perspective on the relationship between German management accounting and financial accounting (2016)
Journal Article
Brandau, M., Endenich, C., Luther, R., & Trapp, R. (2017). Separation – integration – and now …? A historical perspective on the relationship between German management accounting and financial accounting. Accounting History, 22(1), 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/1032373216658035

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. German accounting has traditionally followed a dual ledger approach with strictly separated internal cost accounting, as the basis for management information, and external financial accounting focusing on creditor protec... Read More about Separation – integration – and now …? A historical perspective on the relationship between German management accounting and financial accounting.

What do unions do in times of economic crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & Veliziotis, M. (2017). What do unions do in times of economic crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 23(1), 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680116672281

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline, and unions in the region are generally considered weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance... Read More about What do unions do in times of economic crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe.

The Plight of Modern Markets: How Universal Banking Undermines Capital Markets (2016)
Journal Article
Sissoko, C. (2017). The Plight of Modern Markets: How Universal Banking Undermines Capital Markets. Economic Notes, 46(1), 53-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecno.12071

© 2016 Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA This paper explains the process of competitive deregulation that led both the US and the UK to embrace universal banking and to abandon the functional separation of financial activities that had long charact... Read More about The Plight of Modern Markets: How Universal Banking Undermines Capital Markets.

Do Shadow Banks Create Money? ‘Financialisation’ and the Monetary Circuit (2016)
Journal Article
Michell, J. (2017). Do Shadow Banks Create Money? ‘Financialisation’ and the Monetary Circuit. Metroeconomica, 68(2), 354-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/meca.12149

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The rise of the shadow banking system is viewed through the theoretical lens of Graziani's Monetary Theory of Production. Graziani's categories of ‘initial finance’ and ‘final finance’ are used to analyse the new forms... Read More about Do Shadow Banks Create Money? ‘Financialisation’ and the Monetary Circuit.

Growth, distribution, and sectoral heterogeneity: Reading the Kaleckians in Latin America (2016)
Journal Article
Rugitsky, F. (2016). Growth, distribution, and sectoral heterogeneity: Reading the Kaleckians in Latin America. EconomiA, 17(3), 265-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econ.2016.09.005

The aim of this paper is to explore a parallelism between two episodes in the history of economic thought in order to suggest that the interaction between them can contribute to the research on Kaleckian growth and distribution models. First, a brief... Read More about Growth, distribution, and sectoral heterogeneity: Reading the Kaleckians in Latin America.