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Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky synthesis (2017)
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© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. Wynne Godley and Hyman Minsky were two macroeconomists who 'saw the crisis coming'. This paper develops a simple mac... Read More about Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: A Godley-Minsky synthesis.

Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence. Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the research to date is rooted in western experiences.... Read More about Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness.

Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displ... Read More about Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries.

A conditional regime switching CAPM (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The standard Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is simple, intuitive, and grounded in sound economic theory. Yet, almost half a century's worth of empirical testing has so far failed to demonstrate its relevance. One major reason... Read More about A conditional regime switching CAPM.

The Limits of Instrumentalism: Informal Work and Gendered Cycles of Food Insecurity in Mozambique (2017)
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The instrumentalist literature suggests that women can help achieve household food security if they have access to productive resources but do not become overburdened as a result... Read More about The Limits of Instrumentalism: Informal Work and Gendered Cycles of Food Insecurity in Mozambique.

Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action (2017)
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Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Understanding how community groups take on the challenge of climate change is key to understanding the capacity of society as a whole to adapt in the face of climate change in ways that acknowledge a bro... Read More about Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action.

Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: The EU enlargement experience in England and Wales (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study the links between this migrant inflow and life satisfaction of native reside... Read More about Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: The EU enlargement experience in England and Wales.

Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies (2017)
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Although small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent more than 90% of all enterprises and play an important role in employment generation, they lack access to affordable formal finance. Conventionally, market failures and information imperfe... Read More about Political connectedness and formal finance in transition economies.

Learning groups: the effects of group diversity on the quality of group reflection (2017)
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study explores the quality of reflection, and how group diversity affects group reflection by final-year accounting and finance undergraduates using Mezirow’s [(1991). Transformativ... Read More about Learning groups: the effects of group diversity on the quality of group reflection.

Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal th... Read More about Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region.

Measuring the intellectual capital of Italian listed companies (2017)
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© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), measured in terms of the market to book (MTB) ratio, and potential key determinants of IC value such as int... Read More about Measuring the intellectual capital of Italian listed companies.

The effect of market structure on banks’ profitability and stability: Evidence from ASEAN-5 Countries (2017)
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This paper analyses the effect of market structure on profitability and stability using the sample of 130 commercial banks in ASEAN-5 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) over the period from 2001 to 2013. More specifi... Read More about The effect of market structure on banks’ profitability and stability: Evidence from ASEAN-5 Countries.

Monetary policy and exchange rates: A balanced two-country cointegrated var model approach (2017)
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We study the exchange rate effects of monetary policy in a balanced macroeconometric two-country model for the United States and United Kingdom. In contrast to the empirical literature, which consistently treats the domestic and foreign countries une... Read More about Monetary policy and exchange rates: A balanced two-country cointegrated var model approach.

The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK (2017)
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© 2016 Despite increase mistrust between corporations and societies in the aftermath of the global corporate misbehaviours, the literature examining the impact of community concerns on corporate communications is undeveloped. Our paper is timely; it... Read More about The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK.

The relationship between equity and bond returns: An empirical investigation (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The correlation between equity and corporate debt is ambiguous. News affecting the value of a firm's assets induces a positive correlation, whereas an increase in the volatility of a firm's assets induces a negative correlation.... Read More about The relationship between equity and bond returns: An empirical investigation.

Industrial policy and exchange rate scepticism (2017)
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The aim of the present paper is to put in historical perspective the development thinking on the relationship between industrial and exchange rate policies. The first section focuses on the thought of the so-called pioneers of development economics,... Read More about Industrial policy and exchange rate scepticism.

Spontaneous recognition: An unnecessary control on data access? (2017)
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Social scientists increasingly expect to have access to detailed data for research purposes. As the level of detail increases, data providers worry about “spontaneous recognition”, the likelihood that a microdata user believes that he or she has acci... Read More about Spontaneous recognition: An unnecessary control on data access?.

The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Ever since the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system, gold has retained its function as an important monetary commodity (Baur and Lucey, 2010), and continues to provide important inflation forecasting information to monetary polic... Read More about The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics.

Bitcoin unchained (2017)
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Bitcoin’s distributed ledger is an innovative way of solving the double spending problem in a decentralised system. However, it causes incompressible transaction delays and incentivises consolidation of mining power. We ask, is it possible to elimina... Read More about Bitcoin unchained.

Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy models (2017)
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© 2017 Canadian Economics Association Indivisible labour is not the only type of non-convexity affecting labour supply decisions. Another type of non-convexity arises in economies with sectors whenever individuals can work in only one sector at a tim... Read More about Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy models.