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Models of military expenditure and growth: A critical review (2005)
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This paper reviews some of the theoretical and econometric issues involved in estimating growth models that include military spending. While the mainstream growth literature has not found military expenditure to be a significant determinant of growth... Read More about Models of military expenditure and growth: A critical review.

Audit failure, litigation, and insurance in early twentieth century Britain (2005)
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The relationships between audit failure, judicial fault-finding and the availability of professional indemnity insurance have been debated by legal and accounting writers in both academic and professional circles. This paper adds an historical perspe... Read More about Audit failure, litigation, and insurance in early twentieth century Britain.

Do public sector contract catering tender procedures result in an auction for “lemons”? (2005)
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the structural effects of public sector catering tender procedures and suggests improvements that would benefit clients, users and small catering firms. The essential problem is that current tender pr... Read More about Do public sector contract catering tender procedures result in an auction for “lemons”?.

Non-financial performance measurement in manufacturing companies (2005)
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The contemporary manufacturing environment is characterised by increased worker responsibility coupled with the measurement and reporting of numerous aspects of performance. At shop-floor level much of this performance measurement and reporting is no... Read More about Non-financial performance measurement in manufacturing companies.

Evolving a Regionally-Based Mechanism for the Provision of Technical Knowledge to SMEs: Lessons for Policy (2005)
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© 2005, © 2005 SAGE Publications. This paper describes and evaluates a pilot project undertaken in the South West of England to develop a computer-based system for facilitating effective technical knowledge transfer to small and medium-sized enterpri... Read More about Evolving a Regionally-Based Mechanism for the Provision of Technical Knowledge to SMEs: Lessons for Policy.

'Towards a mapping of the student world': The identification of variation in students' conceptions of, and motivations to learn, introductory accounting (2005)
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This paper is concerned with a strand of educational research that seeks to support students in developing a better awareness and understanding of themselves as learners. Since it is difficult to 'know' our students individually there is value in kno... Read More about 'Towards a mapping of the student world': The identification of variation in students' conceptions of, and motivations to learn, introductory accounting.

What lies beneath? Who owns British defence contractors and does it matter? (2005)
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Do central banks act asymmetrically? Empirical evidence from the ECB and the bank of England (2005)
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The paper attempts to exploit whether monetary authorities have a different behaviour during recession and expansion. To this end, a multivariate extension of Hamilton Markov-switching model is adopted. First, regime dependent Taylor-type rules are e... Read More about Do central banks act asymmetrically? Empirical evidence from the ECB and the bank of England.

Anticipating the impact of IFRS on the management of German manufacturing companies: Some observations from a British perspective (2005)
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Cross-country asymmetries in monetary policy transmission: Evidence from EMU members (2005)
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This paper analyzes monetary policy asymmetries in EMU participating countries. In particular, we use a structural dynamic modelling approach to investigate asymmetric monetary transmission in Europe. Asymmetries are investigated in two different way... Read More about Cross-country asymmetries in monetary policy transmission: Evidence from EMU members.

The economic benefits, organisational structure and governance of the motability scheme: A consumption opportunity set model (2005)
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This paper examines the Motability scheme which enables disabled people to obtain cars on a leasing basis in the UK. The scheme is centred around Motability, a charity, which has an arms-length relationship with a government department, and a close r... Read More about The economic benefits, organisational structure and governance of the motability scheme: A consumption opportunity set model.