All Outputs (925)

The impact of financial difficulties on earnings management strategies: The case of Italian non-listed firms (2020)
Journal Article
Matonti, G., Tommasetti, A., Torre, C., & Tucker, J. (2020). The impact of financial difficulties on earnings management strategies: The case of Italian non-listed firms. African Journal of Business Management, 14(11), 511-528. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM2020.9105

This study investigates the impact of the degree of financial distress on the earnings management activities of Italian non-listed firms. The extant literature provides mixed evidence on this relationship for listed firms. We find a positive (negativ... Read More about The impact of financial difficulties on earnings management strategies: The case of Italian non-listed firms.

Variegated financialization and pension fund asset demand: The case of Colombia and Perú (2020)
Journal Article
Bonizzi, B., Churchill, J., & Guevara, D. (2021). Variegated financialization and pension fund asset demand: The case of Colombia and Perú. Socio-Economic Review, 19(2), 789-815. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaa033

This article seeks to explain concretely how one ‘variegation’ of financialization in the emerging economy setting is being shaped by the growth of domestic pension funds. Taking Colombia and Perú as case studies, we explore the evolution of pension... Read More about Variegated financialization and pension fund asset demand: The case of Colombia and Perú.

The decline of neoliberalism: A play in three acts (2020)
Journal Article
Rugitsky, F. (2020). The decline of neoliberalism: A play in three acts. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 40(4), 587-603. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572020-3202

This paper aims to examine the political and economic consequences of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, setting it in the context of a Gramscian interregnum. First, the dismantling of the triangular articulation of the world market that cha... Read More about The decline of neoliberalism: A play in three acts.

The effect of diversification on bank performance in dual banking system (2020)
Journal Article
Hamid, F. S. (2020). The effect of diversification on bank performance in dual banking system. International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 13(5), 446-470. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEF.2020.110555

This study analyses the impact of banks' diversification strategies on their risk-adjusted performance using the sample of commercial banks in 22 Muslim countries with dual banking system during 2000-2016. Islamic banks' performance is more strongly... Read More about The effect of diversification on bank performance in dual banking system.

Financial literacy, money management skill and credit card repayments (2020)
Journal Article
Hamid, F. S., & Loke, Y. J. (2021). Financial literacy, money management skill and credit card repayments. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 45(2), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12614

This paper studies the relationship between socio-economic factors, financial literacy, money management skill, overspending and impulsiveness on credit card repayment decisions. Analysis based on a sample of 451 credit card users in Malaysia showed... Read More about Financial literacy, money management skill and credit card repayments.

Development of business schools in emerging markets: Learning through adoption and adaptation (2020)
Journal Article
Ilie, C., Fornes, G., Cardoza, G., & Mondragón Quintana, J. C. (2020). Development of business schools in emerging markets: Learning through adoption and adaptation. Sustainability, 12(20), Article 8448. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208448

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the critical resources and capabilities that business schools (BS) have developed to achieve sustainable development. Framed within the resource-based theory, it analyzes seven of the... Read More about Development of business schools in emerging markets: Learning through adoption and adaptation.

Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel (2020)
Journal Article
Wrenn, M. V. (2021). Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 45(2), 295-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beaa048

Neoliberalism relies on optimism. Without faith in meritocracy-unwavering belief that rewards will eventually and justly come to those who work hard enough-support for the capitalist system and belief in neoliberalism would unravel. How that optimism... Read More about Selling salvation, selling success: Neoliberalism and the US Prosperity Gospel.

Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections (2020)
Journal Article
Kreiss, C. M., Papathanasopoulou, E., Hamon, K. G., Pinnegar, J. K., Rybicki, S., Micallef, G., …Peck, M. A. (2020). Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, Article 568159. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.568159

Climate-driven changes in aquatic environments have already started to affect the European aquaculture sector’s most commercially important finfish and shellfish species. In addition to changes in water quality and temperature that can directly influ... Read More about Future socio-political scenarios for aquatic resources in Europe: An operationalized framework for aquaculture projections.

Exploiting different ways at looking at data (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Whittard, D., & McKenzie, A. (2020, September). Exploiting different ways at looking at data. Presented at 5th Data for Policy Conference 2020

Runners, repeaters, strangers and aliens: Operationalising efficient output disclosure control (2020)
Journal Article
Alves, K., & Ritchie, F. (2020). Runners, repeaters, strangers and aliens: Operationalising efficient output disclosure control. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 36(4), 1281-1293. https://doi.org/10.3233/SJI-200661

Statistical agencies and other government bodies increasingly use secure remote research facilities to provide access to sensitive data for research and analysis by internal staff and third parties. Such facilities depend on human intervention to ens... Read More about Runners, repeaters, strangers and aliens: Operationalising efficient output disclosure control.

Competition, diversification and performance in dual banking: A panel VAR analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Sahul Hamid, F., & Ibrahim, M. H. (2021). Competition, diversification and performance in dual banking: A panel VAR analysis. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja, 34(1), 194-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1782242

This article investigates the dynamic relationship among competition, diversification and bank performance using data for 18 countries with a dual banking system over the period 2000 to 2016. Analyses using panel vector autoregression (P.V.A.R.) mode... Read More about Competition, diversification and performance in dual banking: A panel VAR analysis.

Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance at the bottom of the pyramid (2020)
Journal Article
Adomako, S., Ning, E., & Adu‐Ameyaw, E. (2021). Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance at the bottom of the pyramid. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(1), 422-431. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2629

This paper utilizes insights from the natural resource-based view to examine the conditions under which proactive environmental strategy (PES) drive firm performance. Using data collected from 266 small- and medium-sized enterprises operating in Ghan... Read More about Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance at the bottom of the pyramid.

Structuralism and human development: A seamless marriage? An assessment of poverty, production and environmental challenges in CARICOM countries (2020)
Journal Article
Perry, K. K. (2020). Structuralism and human development: A seamless marriage? An assessment of poverty, production and environmental challenges in CARICOM countries. International Journal of Political Economy, 49(3), 222-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/08911916.2020.1824735

The article examines the current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that show continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework b... Read More about Structuralism and human development: A seamless marriage? An assessment of poverty, production and environmental challenges in CARICOM countries.

Oekonomie und Offenheit: vom Systemdenken zum Ereignis-Denken (2020)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (2021). Oekonomie und Offenheit: vom Systemdenken zum Ereignis-Denken. In I. de Genarro, R. Lüfter, & R. Simon (Eds.), Oekonomie als Problem. K Alber Verlag

Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2021). Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective. Kyklos, 74(1), 48-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12257

This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship between people’s present-day pro-environmental action an... Read More about Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective.

How race and gender shape COVID-19 unemployment probability (2020)
Working Paper
Gezici, A., & Ozay, O. How race and gender shape COVID-19 unemployment probability

Using the April 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS) micro dataset, we explore the racialized and gendered effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the probability of being unemployed. The distribution of job losses from COVID-19 for women and men or for... Read More about How race and gender shape COVID-19 unemployment probability.

Institutional supercycles: An evolutionary macro-finance approach (2020)
Working Paper
Dafermos, Y., Gabor, D., & Michell, J. (2020). Institutional supercycles: An evolutionary macro-finance approach

We build upon the Minskyan concepts of ‘thwarting mechanisms’ and ‘supercycles’ to develop a framework for the analysis of the dynamic evolutionary interactions between macrofinancial, institutional and political processes. Thwarting m... Read More about Institutional supercycles: An evolutionary macro-finance approach.

A behavioural approach to corporate finance: A study of the Egyptian and UK markets (2020)
Thesis
ElGebeily, E. A behavioural approach to corporate finance: A study of the Egyptian and UK markets. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5715851

This thesis empirically investigates the effect of managerial overconfidence bias on investment decisions, stock price crash risk and default risk. Overconfidence is manifested in an exaggerated sense of being attentive only to one’s own information,... Read More about A behavioural approach to corporate finance: A study of the Egyptian and UK markets.

Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management (2020)
Working Paper
Ritchie, F., & Green, E. Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management

The Five Safes framework is increasingly widely used for data governance. Since its conception in 2003, it has influenced data management in many ways, particularly in the public sector. As it has become established, both the advantages and limitatio... Read More about Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management.

Security properties of light clients on the ethereum blockchain (2020)
Journal Article
Paavolainen, S., & Carr, C. (2020). Security properties of light clients on the ethereum blockchain. IEEE Access, 8, 124339-124358. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3006113

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain, known as being the second most popular public blockchain after Bitcoin. Since Ethereum is decentralised the canonical state is determined by the Ethereum network participants via a consensus mechanism without a... Read More about Security properties of light clients on the ethereum blockchain.