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Battles in the costing war: UK debates, 1950-75 (2003)
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Jones, T. C., & Dugdale, D. (2003). Battles in the costing war: UK debates, 1950-75. Accounting Business and Financial History, 13(3), 305-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585200310001606608

In the UK, 1950-75 was a lively period in the long-running debates between proponents of absorption and marginal costing. In the nexus of competing interests, management accountants advocated and defended rival costing systems with much vigour and pa... Read More about Battles in the costing war: UK debates, 1950-75.

Regional factor price convergence across four major European countries (2003)
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Webber, D. J., & White, P. (2003). Regional factor price convergence across four major European countries. Regional Studies, 37(8), 773-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/0034340032000128703

Neo-classical growth models predict that the free movement of goods and factors will result in the spatial convergence of output and an ensuing convergence of factor prices. Based on distribution free statistics, this paper presents an empirical exam... Read More about Regional factor price convergence across four major European countries.

From voluntary to state control and the emergence of the department in UK hospital accounting (2003)
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Robson, N. (2003). From voluntary to state control and the emergence of the department in UK hospital accounting. Accounting Business and Financial History, 13(2), 99-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/095852000084969

This paper explores the development and diffusion of accounting techniques in UK hospitals and finds that attempts to utilise accounting data, for performance measurement and control, predate the introduction of the NHS in 1948. The main focus of the... Read More about From voluntary to state control and the emergence of the department in UK hospital accounting.

Small firm finance and public policy (2003)
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Lean, J., & Tucker, J. (2003). Small firm finance and public policy. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 10(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000310461367

Examines how a finance gap for small firms might be addressed by means of government policy to support informal financing initiatives. A review of both the finance and the government policy literature provides the basis for discussing and conceptuali... Read More about Small firm finance and public policy.

The demand for military spending in developing countries: A dynamic panel analysis (2003)
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Dunne, J. P., & Perlo-Freeman, S. (2003). The demand for military spending in developing countries: A dynamic panel analysis. Defence and Peace Economics, 14(6), 461-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/1024269032000085224

Estimating demand functions for developing countries before and after the end of the Cold War, Dunne and PerloFreeman (2003) found little evidence of any change in the underlying relationship. One concern with their analysis was that the use of cross... Read More about The demand for military spending in developing countries: A dynamic panel analysis.

The demand for military spending in developing countries (2003)
Journal Article
Dunne, J. P., & Perlo-Freeman, S. (2003). The demand for military spending in developing countries. International Review of Applied Economics, 17(1), 23-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/713673166

Numerous studies have estimated demand for military expenditure in terms of economic, political and strategic variables. Ten years after the end of the Cold War, this paper attempts to ascertain if the new strategic environment has changed the patter... Read More about The demand for military spending in developing countries.