All Outputs (925)

Safety in numbers: Minimum thresholding, Maximum bounds and Little White Lies : The case of the mean and standard deviation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reporting the sample mean, sample standard deviation and sample size could in some cases lead to the unique identification of the underpinning sample. The likelihood of this reveal via direct enumeration of the possible search space decreases with i... Read More about Safety in numbers: Minimum thresholding, Maximum bounds and Little White Lies : The case of the mean and standard deviation.

ASHE – 2011 Census Data Linkage: User Guide Drop 1 of the ASHE – 2011 Census Dataset (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

Longitudinal attrition in ASHE (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. The survey operates on an annual 1% sample of employee jobs. However, the method of sampling - based on the final two digits of an employee’s Natio... Read More about Longitudinal attrition in ASHE.

The agony of university choice: Broaden horizons, expand participation? (2022)
Journal Article

This study investigates how personality and individual experiences influence decision-making processes during the transition into Higher Education (HE). It offers insights into application choices, where applicants employ different quantitative hedgi... Read More about The agony of university choice: Broaden horizons, expand participation?.

Growth opportunity and investment policy: The role of managerial incentives (2022)
Journal Article

Based on the neo-classical theory of investment (Tobin's Q), this study looks at how growth opportunity drives investment policies and the extent to which this relationship is sensitive to managerial incentives. We use data from 213 non-financial and... Read More about Growth opportunity and investment policy: The role of managerial incentives.

An agent-based model of motor insurance customer behaviour in the UK with word of mouth (2022)
Journal Article

Attracting and retaining loyal customers is a key driver of insurance profit. An important factor is the customers’ opinion of an insurer’s service quality. If a customer has a bad experience with an insurer, they will be less likely to buy from them... Read More about An agent-based model of motor insurance customer behaviour in the UK with word of mouth.

Unemployment and COVID-19 in OECD countries: Does the gender of head of state matter? (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper analyses the differences in the COVID-19 situation and resulting unemployment growth in OECD countries with male and female heads of state. Our sample period covers three waves of COVID-19. We have performed the wavelet analysis to evaluat... Read More about Unemployment and COVID-19 in OECD countries: Does the gender of head of state matter?.

UK professional accounting bodies (PAB): Members’ unethical behaviors and exclusion (2022)
Journal Article

Although previous studies have explored the disciplinary procedures and sanctions by PABs, the focus of these studies has often been generalized to all forms of infringements. This has prevented specific attention on the most severe ethical breaches... Read More about UK professional accounting bodies (PAB): Members’ unethical behaviors and exclusion.

Training analysts in the management of confidential data (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

With researchers increasingly gaining access to confidentiality data through restricted environments, interest has grown in the training of those researchers to protect confidentiality and to use the secure facility effectively.
Researcher training,... Read More about Training analysts in the management of confidential data.

Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

The ‘five safes’ is a popular data governance framework. It is used to design and critique data management strategies across the world, and has also been used as a performance framework to measure the effectiveness of data access operations. We repor... Read More about Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance.

Endogenous fluctuations and international business cycles (2022)
Journal Article

We introduce equilibrium indeterminacy into a two-country incomplete asset model with imperfect competition to analyze the role of self-fulfilling expectations or beliefs in explaining international business cycles. We find that, when self-fulfilling... Read More about Endogenous fluctuations and international business cycles.

Hacia una pedagogía para la formación y el liderazgo juvenil (2022)
Book Chapter

Measuring the value of data governance in agricultural investments: A case study (2022)
Journal Article

Summary The study at hand measures the value of improving data governance and access in the Supporting Soil Health Interventions (SSHI) project in Ethiopia. We applied two separate but interlinked models, one qualitative and one quantitative, to crea... Read More about Measuring the value of data governance in agricultural investments: A case study.

R and D spending intensity of private vs public firms: The role of cash flow, leverage and information quality (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study provides a large sample comparison of research and development (R&D) spending intensity in private and public firms and the extent to which these firms' unique characteristics affect their R&D spending rate. Design/methodology/app... Read More about R and D spending intensity of private vs public firms: The role of cash flow, leverage and information quality.

Understanding modern money: When the monetary tail is wagging the real economy dog, economic models that don’t take bank regulation into account fall short (2022)
Digital Artefact

Reassessing the multiple values of lowland British floodplains (2022)
Journal Article

Ecosystem services provided by lowland British floodplains respectively under semi-natural conditions and converted for intensive maize production were assessed. Floodplains across lowland Britain have been extensively disconnected from river channel... Read More about Reassessing the multiple values of lowland British floodplains.

Managing group work: The impact of peer assessment on student engagement (2022)
Journal Article

This study investigates the impact of peer assessment on students’ engagement in their learning in a group work context. The study used regression analysis and was complemented by qualitative responses from a survey of 165 first-year undergraduates i... Read More about Managing group work: The impact of peer assessment on student engagement.

Managerial compensation and fixed intangible assets investment: The role of managerial ownership and firm characteristics (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study examines how cash and stock bonus compensations influence top executives to allocate a firm's resources to fixed intangible assets investment and the extent to which this relationship is conditional on executives' ownership, firm... Read More about Managerial compensation and fixed intangible assets investment: The role of managerial ownership and firm characteristics.

Life cycle optimisation of building retrofitting considering climate change effects (2022)
Journal Article

Novelty: Climate change has significant impacts on building energy performance. A novel life cycle optimisation strategy is developed for determining optimal retrofitting solutions for office buildings with climate change effects taken into considera... Read More about Life cycle optimisation of building retrofitting considering climate change effects.

A self-adaptive deep learning model for building electricity load prediction with moving horizon (2022)
Journal Article

A self-adaptive deep learning model powered by ranking selection-based particle swarm optimisation (RSPSO) is developed to predict electricity load in buildings with moving horizons. The main features of the load prediction model include its self-ada... Read More about A self-adaptive deep learning model for building electricity load prediction with moving horizon.