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Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression
Preprint / Working Paper

The recent growth in research access to confidential government microdata has prompted the development of more general 'output-based statistical disclosure control' (OSDC) methods which go beyond tabular protection. Central to OSDC is the concept of... Read More about Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression.

Analysing Finance and Production in the Contemporary Capitalist Era
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here has been a dramatic restructuring of the global economy as the dictates of neoliberalism have reconfigured the contemporary capitalist system of accumulation which has involved a seismic shift from industrial to finance capital. There have been... Read More about Analysing Finance and Production in the Contemporary Capitalist Era.

Grow, peak or plateau - the outlook for car travel
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At the request of the New Zealand Ministry of Transport, a meeting of UK researchers and commentators was convened in London on ‘peak car’, a hypothesis that per capita car use is close to its maximum level, and may stabilise or turn down. In both co... Read More about Grow, peak or plateau - the outlook for car travel.

Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches
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Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There is however a long tradition of economic analysis which emphasises how growth in a capitalist economy leads to an accumulation of te... Read More about Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches.

Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income
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The distribution of income between capital and labour has, until very recently, been ignored by the majority of the economics profession. At the same time, the rate of wage growth has systematically lagged the growth of productivity, leading to a fal... Read More about Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income.

Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model
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Goodwin cycles result from the dynamic interaction between a profit-led demand regime and a reserve army effect in income distribution. The paper proposes the concept of a pseudo-Goodwin cycle. We define this as a counter-clockwise movement in output... Read More about Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model.

How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS
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A resource-based view of organizations suggests that internal knowledge is amongst the most important sources of competitive advantage. Regardless of whether these ideas are exaggerated, it is not necessary to buy into them all to accept the signific... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS.

The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in organisations
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This study was part of a collaborative trial for an energy feedback intervention, providing detailed individual desk based energy feedback information to help individuals reduce energy in an office environment. Although the intervention was individua... Read More about The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in organisations.

Financialization, price risks, and global commodity chains: Distributional implications on cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The functioning of commodity markets has changed related to processes of financialization that involve two major developments – the rise of financial interest on commodity derivative markets through the increasing presence of financial investors and... Read More about Financialization, price risks, and global commodity chains: Distributional implications on cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945): A bibliography of his writings and a list of his buildings
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A bibliography of the writings of Frederick Bligh Bond and a list of his buildings, with a short biography. First draft pending the possible receipt of additional information.

User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata
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When producing anonymised microdata for research, national statistics institutes (NSIs) identify a number of 'risk scenarios' of how intruders might seek to attack a confidential dataset. This paper argues that the strategy used to identify confident... Read More about User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata.

Reflections on the one-minute paper
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This paper captures the perceptions of both a new academic and his students on the use of the one-minute paper (OMP). Much of the originality of this paper derives from the multi-layered qualitative approach which provides a deeper insight into the d... Read More about Reflections on the one-minute paper.

Accents, dialects and languages of the Bristol region: A bibliography (state of 5 January 2015)
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A bibliography in the course of development: believed close to complete

Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants
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Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from the young, highly educated/skilled population. This paper uses a new cross-sectional data set of Romanian emigrants to find which... Read More about Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants.

Asking attitude, intention and prediction questions as a social influence technique: A meta-analysis of the question-behavior effect
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The question-behavior effect, how asking attitude, intention and prediction questions influences behavior, has been widely examined since its discovery by Sherman (1980). In the present study, a meta-analysis is carried out to examine the effectivene... Read More about Asking attitude, intention and prediction questions as a social influence technique: A meta-analysis of the question-behavior effect.

‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New political governance and the English planning inspectorate
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This paper reviews empirical evidence from interviews with forty professionals, of increased central control over the Planning Inspectorate, an executive agency of the UK Government. It highlights the acute tensions for inspectors and the planning sy... Read More about ‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New political governance and the English planning inspectorate.

DSGE models and the Lucas Critique. A historical appraisal
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This contribution to the history of the economic thought aims at describing how “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique” (Lucas, 1976) has been interpreted through four decades of debates. This historical appraisal clarifies how Lucas’s argument i... Read More about DSGE models and the Lucas Critique. A historical appraisal.

Urban food security in the context of inequality and dietary change: A study of schoolchildren in Accra
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Diets are changing globally, as agricultural and food systems have become globalised and created new forms of food production, distribution, and trade. Understanding how patterns of globalisation affect the welfare of populations is a key development... Read More about Urban food security in the context of inequality and dietary change: A study of schoolchildren in Accra.

Can corporate social reporting mitigate reputational risk? The role of ambivalence and attribution
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While disclosing corporate social and environmental performance has become a common practice around the world, whether such reporting can effectively mitigate reputational risk remains unclear. The existing empirical evidence is not only indirect b... Read More about Can corporate social reporting mitigate reputational risk? The role of ambivalence and attribution.

Reacting to the Lucas Critique: The Keynesians' pragmatic replies
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We illustrate how the Lucas Critique was called into question by Keynesian macroeconomists during the 1970s and 1980s. Our claim is that Keynesians' reactions were carried out from a pragmatic approach, which addressed the empirical and practical rel... Read More about Reacting to the Lucas Critique: The Keynesians' pragmatic replies.