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Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways (2018)
Journal Article
Stevano, S., Kadiyala, S., Johnston, D., Malapit, H., Hull, E., & Kalamatianou, S. (2019). Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways. Feminist Economics, 25(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1542155

There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary con... Read More about Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways.

Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan (2018)
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Paulone, S., & Ivlevs, A. (2019). Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan. Social Science and Medicine, 221, 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.12.009

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Despite the growth of alcohol consumption and international migration in many developing countries, the links between the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of household members, receiving remit... Read More about Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.

Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity (2018)
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Tubadji, A., & Nijkamp, P. (2018). Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity. Tourism Economics, 24(8), 915-944. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354816618781468

© The Author(s) 2018. This article focuses on a neglected part of the well-known Balassa–Samuelson (B-S) effect in international trade, namely, the specific role of tourism in equilibrating the purchasing power parities across areas. The article aims... Read More about Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity.

Behavioural New Keynesian models (2018)
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Levine, P., & Jump, R. C. (2019). Behavioural New Keynesian models. Journal of Macroeconomics, 59, 59-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2018.11.002

© 2018 This paper provides a bird's eye view of the behavioural New Keynesian literature. We discuss three key empirical regularities in macroeconomic data which are not accounted for by the standard New Keynesian model, namely, excess kurtosis, stoc... Read More about Behavioural New Keynesian models.

The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence (2018)
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Adelopo, I., Yinusa, G., & Rufai, I. (2019). The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence. International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, 15(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAAPE.2019.096732

Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The determinants of the composition of corporate boards remain inconclusive. This study investigates the impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence for a sample of UK listed comp... Read More about The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence.

Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives (2018)
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Adelopo, I., & Rufai, I. (2020). Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives. Journal of Business Ethics, 163, 429-449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-4059-z

This study explores the ways in which trust deficit undermines anti-corruption initiatives in a context with systemic corruption. Anti-corruption measures as panacea to systemic corruption are not new, but their effectiveness is debatable. Whilst und... Read More about Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives.

Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers (2018)
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Bradley, P. (2019). Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers. Journal of Cleaner Production, 209, 333-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.184

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Economics is a critical subject for the integration of sustainable development into curriculum given the discipline's influence in shaping social metabolism of societies, inequality, environmental impacts and wellbeing. There are... Read More about Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers.

Internet of things forensics: Recent advances, taxonomy, requirements, and open challenges (2018)
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Yaqoob, I., Hashem, I. A. T., Ahmed, A., Kazmi, S. A., & Hong, C. S. (2019). Internet of things forensics: Recent advances, taxonomy, requirements, and open challenges. Future Generation Computer Systems, 92, 265-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.09.058

The explosive growth of smart objects and their dependency on wireless technologies for communication increases the vulnerability of Internet of Things (IoT) to cyberattacks. Cyberattacks faced by IoT present daunting challenges to digital forensic e... Read More about Internet of things forensics: Recent advances, taxonomy, requirements, and open challenges.

Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2018)
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Bhuiyan, M. F., & Ivlevs, A. (2019). Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Journal of Business Venturing, 34(4), 625-645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.09.005

© 2019 The Authors Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical f... Read More about Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh.

Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation (2018)
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Gezici, A., Orhangazi, Ö., & Yalçın, C. (2019). Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 55(6), 1405-1416. https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496x.2018.1473247

In this article, we analyze the financing constraints-investment link for the case of Turkey between 1996 and 2013. As different from the existing studies on Turkey, we use a more comprehensive data set that includes both publicly-traded and privatel... Read More about Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation.

How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2018)
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Jahnke, B., & Weisser, R. A. (2019). How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa?. European Journal of Political Economy, 60, Article 101751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.09.003

Revenues from taxation gain in importance to finance economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One obstacle to enhancing the willingness to remit taxes can be the extortion of bribes by public officials. Using micro-level data from the Afrobaromete... Read More about How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa?.

The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates (2018)
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Weisser, R. A. (2019). The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates. Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 39(1), 25-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-018-0126-2

This paper addresses the question concerning the price of geographic mobility in various labour market and migration scenarios. Pivotal points are expected mobility premiums which are sufficient to tip the scales in favour of moving to a geographical... Read More about The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates.

Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here? (2018)
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Dilaver, O., Jump, R., & Levine, P. (2018). Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here?. Journal of Economic Surveys, 32(4), 1134-1159. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12249

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) has been used for tackling major research questions in macroeconomics for at least two decades. This growing field positions itself as an alternative to dynamic stochastic gene... Read More about Agent-based macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models: Where do we go from here?.

The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis (2018)
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Perry, K. K. (2018). The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis. Journal of Developing Societies, 34(3), 264-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X18786136

© 2018 SAGE Publications. This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent so... Read More about The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis.

The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries (2018)
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Boolaky, P. K., Omoteso, K., Ibrahim, M. U., & Adelopo, I. (2018). The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 8(3), 327-351. https://doi.org/10.1108/jaee-07-2015-0052

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of accounting development and the adoption of IFRS in the four foremost economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—Egypt, Jordan, Libya and UAE. Through the lens of institutional th... Read More about The development of accounting practices and the adoption of IFRS in selected MENA countries.

Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind (2018)
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Ivlevs, A., Nikolova, M., & Graham, C. (2019). Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind. Journal of Population Economics, 32(1), 113-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-018-0718-8

© 2018, The Author(s). We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depressio... Read More about Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind.

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0 (2018)
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Berger, S. (2018). Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0