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The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Yekini, K. C., Adelopo, I., & Adegbite, E. (2017). The impact of community expectations on corporate community involvement disclosures in the UK. Accounting Forum, 41(3), 234-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2016.12.006

© 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 insurance case of corporate social responsibility (CSR): Is ambivalence the key?” (empirical paper) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Chen, Z., Hang, H., Pavelin, S., & Porter, L. (2017, August). The insurance case of corporate social responsibility (CSR): Is ambivalence the key?” (empirical paper). Paper presented at Centre for social and environmental accounting research, St. Andrews, Scotland

The Insurance Case of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Is Ambivalence the Key?” (empirical paper)

The relationship between equity and bond returns: An empirical investigation (2017)
Journal Article
Tucker, J., Guermat, C., & Demirovic, A. (2017). The relationship between equity and bond returns: An empirical investigation. Journal of Financial Markets, 35, 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finmar.2017.08.001

© 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)
Journal Article
Bresser-Pereira, L. C., & Rugitsky, F. (2018). Industrial policy and exchange rate scepticism. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(3), 617-632. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex004

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)
Journal Article
Ritchie, F. (2017). Spontaneous recognition: An unnecessary control on data access?. https://doi.org/10.2866/430525

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?.

Heterodox economics and theories of interactive agency (2017)
Book Chapter
Wrenn, M. (2017). Heterodox economics and theories of interactive agency. In T. Jo, L. Chester, & C. D’Ippoliti (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics. Routledge

Agency is power—the power to act and the power to choose, the power to imagine, and the power to understand, engage, and manipulate the surrounding biological and social environment. Mainstream economics defines agency in terms of methodological indi... Read More about Heterodox economics and theories of interactive agency.

Heuristic reasoning in the setting of hurdle rates and in the projection of cash flows in investment appraisal (2017)
Thesis
Hornung, M. Heuristic reasoning in the setting of hurdle rates and in the projection of cash flows in investment appraisal. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/883893

A growing body of literature in investment appraisal has focused on bounded rationality of managerial decision-makers. It mostly addresses the actual investment decision stage, i.e. project approval. The investment decision is usually supported by a... Read More about Heuristic reasoning in the setting of hurdle rates and in the projection of cash flows in investment appraisal.

Key recovery: Inert and public (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Boyd, C., Boyen, X., Carr, C., & Haines, T. (2017). Key recovery: Inert and public. In Paradigms in Cryptology - Mycrypt 2016. Malicious and Exploratory Cryptology - Second International Conference, Mycrypt 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, (111-126). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61273-7_6

We propose a public key infrastructure framework, inspired by modern distributed cryptocurrencies, that allows for tunable key escrow, where the availability of key escrow is only provided under strict conditions and enforced through cryptographic me... Read More about Key recovery: Inert and public.

CARIBE: Cascaded IBE for maximum flexibility and user-side control (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Hale, B., Carr, C., & Gligoroski, D. (2017). CARIBE: Cascaded IBE for maximum flexibility and user-side control. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61273-7_19

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Mass surveillance and a lack of end-user encryption, coupled with a growing demand for key escrow under legal oversight and certificate authority security concerns, raise the question of the appropriatenes... Read More about CARIBE: Cascaded IBE for maximum flexibility and user-side control.

The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics (2017)
Journal Article
Zhu, Y., Fan, J., & Tucker, J. (2018). The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics. Research in International Business and Finance, 44, 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.100

© 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)
Journal Article
Carr, C., Boyd, C., Boyen, X., & Haines, T. (2017). Bitcoin unchained. ERCIM News, 2017(110),

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.

The insurance case of corporate social responsibility (CSR): Is ambivalence the key (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Chen, Z., Pavelin, S., Porter, L., & Hang, H. (2017, June). The insurance case of corporate social responsibility (CSR): Is ambivalence the key. Paper presented at International Association for Business and Society annual conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ambivalence is the underlying mechanism in the CSR insurance case

Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy models (2017)
Journal Article
Povoledo, L. (2017). Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy models. Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 50(3), 685-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12275

© 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.

The standard narrative on history of macroeconomics: Central banks and DSGE models (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Sergi, F. (2017, June). The standard narrative on history of macroeconomics: Central banks and DSGE models. Paper presented at History of Economics Society 45th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada

How do macroeconomists write the history of their own discipline? This article provides a careful reconstruction of the history of macroeconomics told by the practitioners working today in the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) approach.... Read More about The standard narrative on history of macroeconomics: Central banks and DSGE models.

Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Newman, S. (2017). Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa

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.

A phenomenographic study of students' perceptions of accounting (2017)
Thesis
McGuigan, N. A phenomenographic study of students' perceptions of accounting. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/887380

Accounting, as a complex social phenomenon, is experienced by individuals in a multitude of ways. A changing professional business landscape coupled with the transforming role of the accountant highlights the need for a broader focus in accounting ed... Read More about A phenomenographic study of students' perceptions of accounting.

Care and the Neoliberal Individual (2017)
Journal Article
Wrenn, M. V., & Waller, W. (2017). Care and the Neoliberal Individual. Journal of Economic Issues, 51(2), 495-502. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2017.1321438

© 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)
Journal Article
Cowling, M., Liu, W., & Zhang, N. (2018). Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28(1), 77-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-017-0502-z

© 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.

Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning (2017)
Book
Dean, E., Elardo, J., Green, M., Wilson, B., & Berger, S. (2017). Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning. Pressbooks - Open Oregon Educational Resources

Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning takes a pluralistic approach to the standard topics of an introductory microeconomics course. The text builds on the chiefly neoclassical material of the OpenStax Principles of Economics... Read More about Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning.