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Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa (2017)
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The Nature and Form of Financialisation in South Africa is conditioned by industrial and financial developments before 1994. This is an edited abridgement from a paper produced by the Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FE... Read More about Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa.

Care and the Neoliberal Individual (2017)
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© 2017, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Abstract: This article explores two conflicting ethical systems: neoliberalism and institutionalism. Neoliberalism’s foundations support an overarching ethic of individual a... Read More about Care and the Neoliberal Individual.

Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis (2017)
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© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper examines the relationships between firm age and entrepreneurs experience on SME performance after the 2008/09 global financial crisis. We find that in general the crisis had a long-lasting scarrin... Read More about Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis.

Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos (2017)
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Translation of the third chapter of Undoing the Demos, a book where Wendy Brown seeks to understand how the emergence of homo oeconomicus has vanquished other figurations and interpellations of the human. Brown first critically engages with Foucault... Read More about Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos.

Are single stock futures used as an alternative during a short-selling ban? (2017)
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The response of the single stock futures (SSF) market to a short-selling ban is investigated. The hypothesis is that traders use SSF as a substitute instrument for short-selling. A significant increase in SSF trading activity is documented, accompani... Read More about Are single stock futures used as an alternative during a short-selling ban?.

Market discipline and bank risk taking: Evidence from the East Asian banking sector (2017)
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The third pillar of the Basel II highlights the role of market discipline in easing the existing pressure on traditional monitoring measures like capital requirement and government supervision. This study test the effectiveness of market discipline i... Read More about Market discipline and bank risk taking: Evidence from the East Asian banking sector.

Does emigration reduce corruption? (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). We study the effects of emigration on bribery experience and attitudes towards corruption in the migrants’ countries of origin. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor survey and instrumental variable analysis, we find that h... Read More about Does emigration reduce corruption?.

Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis (2017)
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© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG The unique contribution of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast demographic change in settlements with a population between 5,000 and under 50,000 (defined as towns) across different national... Read More about Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis.

The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting (2017)
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In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of an online learning resource for introductory financial accounting students using a suite of online multiple choice questions (MCQ) for summative and formative purposes. We found that the availability... Read More about The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting.

Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation (2017)
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper provides an extension of the Schelling agent-based model (ABM) of segregation which is augmented here with a mechanism for the percolation of new ideas. The main objective of the paper is t... Read More about Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation.

The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact (2017)
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© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal African Society. All rights reserved. Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often... Read More about The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact.

Measuring compliance with minimum wages (2017)
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© 2017 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Identifying genuine underpayment of minimum wages is not straightforward. Some well-known statistical issues affect the measurement of compliance rates, but factors such as processing or behavi... Read More about Measuring compliance with minimum wages.

Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system (2017)
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The article discusses the connections between ethics and government of the self in John Maynard Keynes’s economic thoughts about achieving and experiencing the «good life». Based on Michel Foucault’s philosophical developments about ethics and the on... Read More about Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system.

Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital (2017)
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© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: An interest in social transmission as a source of welfare and income inequality in a society has re-emerged recently with new vigour in leading economic research (see Piketty, 2014). This paper presents... Read More about Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital.

Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks (2017)
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© 2017 Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal and Authors. This study investigates the narratives risk disclosures of the four British financial institutions that were adversely affected during the 2008 banking crisis. This investigatio... Read More about Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks.

Enhancing graduate prospects by recording and reflecting on part-time work: A challenge to students and universities (2017)
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© The Author(s) 2017. Business leaders are becoming increasingly explicit regarding the skills, attributes and behaviours expected of graduate entrants. These skills are often developed through a combination of academic studies and work experience. W... Read More about Enhancing graduate prospects by recording and reflecting on part-time work: A challenge to students and universities.