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Ensuring the confidentiality of statistical outputs from the ADRN (2017)
Report
from the ADRN

This technical report discusses potential risks to confidentiality from publication of statistical results based on confidential data, and what we can do to minimise that risk while still ensuring that useful research gets published.

The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, I. S. (2017). The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs. In J. Hannigan, & G. Richards (Eds.), Handbook of New Urban Studies. SAGE Publications

Given the scale of the climate change challenge, there is a multiplicity of perspectives on the question of why some suburban neighbourhoods embrace the need to adapt to climate change and why some neighbourhoods do not. The chapter compares and con... Read More about The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs.

Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos (2017)
Journal Article
Guizzo, D., Hessmann Dalaqua, G., & Paulino, S. (2017). Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos. https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v14i1.48108

Translation of the third chapter of Undoing the Demos, a book where Wendy Brown seeks to understand how the emergence of homo oeconomicus has vanquished other figurations and interpellations of the human. Brown first critically engages with Foucault... Read More about Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos.

Are single stock futures used as an alternative during a short-selling ban? (2017)
Journal Article
Benzennou, B., ap Gwilym, O., & Williams, G. (2018). Are single stock futures used as an alternative during a short-selling ban?. Journal of Futures Markets, 38(1), 66-82. https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.21849

The response of the single stock futures (SSF) market to a short-selling ban is investigated. The hypothesis is that traders use SSF as a substitute instrument for short-selling. A significant increase in SSF trading activity is documented, accompani... Read More about Are single stock futures used as an alternative during a short-selling ban?.

Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp (2017)
Book
Berger, S. (2017). Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp. Traugott Bautz Verlag

This book argues for a poetic economics as an alternative to neoliberal economics. This argument is supported with a case study of archival documents on the inspirational friendship between the poet Ernst Wiechert and the economist K. Wm. Kapp.

Market discipline and bank risk taking: Evidence from the East Asian banking sector (2017)
Journal Article
Hamid, F. S., & Yunus, N. M. (2017). Market discipline and bank risk taking: Evidence from the East Asian banking sector. East Asian Economic Review, 21(1), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.11644/kiep.eaer.2017.21.1.322

The third pillar of the Basel II highlights the role of market discipline in easing the existing pressure on traditional monitoring measures like capital requirement and government supervision. This study test the effectiveness of market discipline i... Read More about Market discipline and bank risk taking: Evidence from the East Asian banking sector.

Does emigration reduce corruption? (2017)
Journal Article
King, R. M., & Ivlevs, A. (2017). Does emigration reduce corruption?. Public Choice, 171(3-4), 389-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0442-z

© 2017, The Author(s). We study the effects of emigration on bribery experience and attitudes towards corruption in the migrants’ countries of origin. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor survey and instrumental variable analysis, we find that h... Read More about Does emigration reduce corruption?.

Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, I. (2017). Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 108(4), 424-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12255

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG The unique contribution of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast demographic change in settlements with a population between 5,000 and under 50,000 (defined as towns) across different national... Read More about Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis.

The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting (2017)
Journal Article
Massoudi, D., Koh, S. K., Hancock, P. J., & Fung, L. (2017). The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting. Issues in Accounting Education, 32(4), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.2308/iace-51722

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of an online learning resource for introductory financial accounting students using a suite of online multiple choice questions (MCQ) for summative and formative purposes. We found that the availability... Read More about The effectiveness of usage of online multiple choice questions on student performance in introductory accounting.

Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation (2017)
Journal Article
Tubadji, A., Nijkamp, P., & Angelis, V. (2019). Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 10(1), 168-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-017-0446-4

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper provides an extension of the Schelling agent-based model (ABM) of segregation which is augmented here with a mechanism for the percolation of new ideas. The main objective of the paper is t... Read More about Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation.

Measuring compliance with minimum wages (2017)
Journal Article
Ritchie, F., Veliziotis, M., Drew, H., & Whittard, D. (2017). Measuring compliance with minimum wages. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 42(3-4), 249-270. https://doi.org/10.3233/JEM-180448

© 2017 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Identifying genuine underpayment of minimum wages is not straightforward. Some well-known statistical issues affect the measurement of compliance rates, but factors such as processing or behavi... Read More about Measuring compliance with minimum wages.

Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system (2017)
Journal Article
Guizzo, D. (2017). Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system. History of Economic Ideas, XXV(1),

The article discusses the connections between ethics and government of the self in John Maynard Keynes’s economic thoughts about achieving and experiencing the «good life». Based on Michel Foucault’s philosophical developments about ethics and the on... Read More about Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system.

Enhancing graduate prospects by recording and reflecting on part-time work: A challenge to students and universities (2017)
Journal Article
Evans, C., & Richardson, M. (2017). Enhancing graduate prospects by recording and reflecting on part-time work: A challenge to students and universities. Industry and Higher Education, 31(5), 283-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422217715200

© The Author(s) 2017. Business leaders are becoming increasingly explicit regarding the skills, attributes and behaviours expected of graduate entrants. These skills are often developed through a combination of academic studies and work experience. W... Read More about Enhancing graduate prospects by recording and reflecting on part-time work: A challenge to students and universities.

Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks (2017)
Journal Article
Adelopo, I. (2017). Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks. Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal, 11(2), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.14453/aabfj.v11i2.3

© 2017 Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal and Authors. This study investigates the narratives risk disclosures of the four British financial institutions that were adversely affected during the 2008 banking crisis. This investigatio... Read More about Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks.

Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital (2017)
Journal Article
Tubadji, A., Nijkamp, P., & Gheasi, M. (2017). Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital. International Journal of Manpower, 38(5), 712-728. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-12-2015-0232

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: An interest in social transmission as a source of welfare and income inequality in a society has re-emerged recently with new vigour in leading economic research (see Piketty, 2014). This paper presents... Read More about Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital.

The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact (2017)
Journal Article
Frynas, J. G., Wood, G., & Hinks, T. (2017). The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact. African Affairs, 116(463), 233-260. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adx001

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal African Society. All rights reserved. Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often... Read More about The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact.