All Outputs (336)

Energy contagion in the COVID-19 crisis (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

Students’ engagement with eLearning tools: their impact on academic performance (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study examines the effect of synchronous and asynchronous online activities on students’ academic performance. Using student usage data captured in the log files of an adaptive Moodle learning platform, we find students’ total synchronous and as... Read More about Students’ engagement with eLearning tools: their impact on academic performance.

Outward FDI: National and regional policy implications for technology innovation (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

A significant contributor to China’s growth over the last 20 years is the ‘go-out’ policy, that is, for domestic firms to invest in international firms and has seen it develop a foundation of high technology industries and world leading research. We... Read More about Outward FDI: National and regional policy implications for technology innovation.

Contagion Testing in Embryonic Markets under Alternative Stressful US Market Scenarios (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

Violence within: Understanding the use of violent practices among Mexican drug traffickers (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper provides first-hand data regarding the perpetrators’ perspectives about their engagement in practices of drug trafficking-related violence in Mexico such as murder, kidnapping, and torture. Drawing on the life stories of thirty-three form... Read More about Violence within: Understanding the use of violent practices among Mexican drug traffickers.

Tracing the genesis of contagion in the oil-finance nexus (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

Can the Bank of England do it? (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

We investigate within the context of Vietnam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify ho... Read More about Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap.

Industry concentration and technological progress in U.S. industries (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper analyzes the impact of increasing concentration on the pace of technological progress in the U.S. economy. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the U.S. economy has been in a period of slower capital accumulation marked by lower aggregate pro... Read More about Industry concentration and technological progress in U.S. industries.

Not just arms and legs: The impact of student working on local labour markets (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

Connectedness between G10 Currencies: Searching for the Causal Structure (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

What do we mean by mobility as a service? A working note of the MultiCAV project (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

The term Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is in growing use by professional associations, research and governmental organisations, and in academic publications. However, it is clear that the use of the term shows considerable variation across the transpo... Read More about What do we mean by mobility as a service? A working note of the MultiCAV project.

Endogenous fluctuations and international business cycles (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper

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 show that when self-fulfilling... Read More about Endogenous fluctuations and international business cycles.

Doodling: Is it a distraction or benefit? (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study was instigated by two factors: like many others (Kukawa, 2011; Laventure, 2011; Ruhland, 1993; Schott, 2011) doodling whilst listening has been common practice for me throughout my career, and I have also used it increasingly within my pra... Read More about Doodling: Is it a distraction or benefit?.

Wholescape thinking guidance note: Towards integrating the management of catchments, coast and the sea through partnerships (2018)
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Our aim is to achieve a common vision of wholescape partnership working that helps overcome barriers and deliver effective environmental management. Wholescape thinking will bring different interests together rather than prescribing a fixed agenda. T... Read More about Wholescape thinking guidance note: Towards integrating the management of catchments, coast and the sea through partnerships.

Food Settings and the health and wellbeing of older people: An annotated bibliography and summary of the literature (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

Little evidence has been collated on the role that food settings play in the health and wellbeing of older people. The purpose of this bibliography is to bring together evidence from a variety of fields and to begin to identify common themes, key lea... Read More about Food Settings and the health and wellbeing of older people: An annotated bibliography and summary of the literature.

Can indeterminacy and self-fulfilling expectations solve the international macro puzzles? (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

We introduce equilibrium indeterminacy into a two-country incomplete asset model with imperfect competition and analyze whether self-fulfilling expectations or beliefs can help resolve the major puzzles of international business cycles. We show that... Read More about Can indeterminacy and self-fulfilling expectations solve the international macro puzzles?.

Capel Soar-y-mynydd, Ceredigion (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

A history, description, bibliography, set of texts and photo-gallery of a chapel in Mid-Wales.

Leaving no one behind: People of African descent & the sustainable development goals (sdgs) (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background briefing circulated to members of ENAR Steering Committee on Afro-phobia. It highlights draft recommendations of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, and empirical findings of my research study in relation to SDGs.

Sentiment analysis of citations using word2vec (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

Citation sentiment analysis is an important task in scientific paper analysis. Existing machine learning techniques for citation sentiment analysis are focusing on labor-intensive feature engineering, which requires large annotated corpus. As an auto... Read More about Sentiment analysis of citations using word2vec.