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Zero-Knowledge Proof of Decryption for FHE Ciphertexts (2018)
Journal Article

Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought (2018)
Journal Article

Daniela Tavasci and Luigi Ventimiglia, two scholars from the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London (uk), edited a volume that brings together the contributions of economics educators to the teaching of the
history of eco... Read More about Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought.

Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways (2018)
Journal Article

There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary con... Read More about Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways.

Confidentiality and linked data (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the confidentiality issues around linked data. It notes that the use and availability of secondary (adminstrative or social media) data, allied to powerful processing and machine learning techniques, in theory means that re-ide... Read More about Confidentiality and linked data.

Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Despite the growth of alcohol consumption and international migration in many developing countries, the links between the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of household members, receiving remit... Read More about Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.

Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This article focuses on a neglected part of the well-known Balassa–Samuelson (B-S) effect in international trade, namely, the specific role of tourism in equilibrating the purchasing power parities across areas. The article aims... Read More about Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity.

The evolution of manufacturing in the Gauteng city-region: From de-industrialization to re-industrialization? (2018)
Book Chapter

The South African economy has long been dominated by what Fine and Rustomjee (1996) call the “Minerals-Energy Complex” (MEC). Much South African ‘manufacturing’ has been connected to this capital intensive MEC core of the economy, with manufacturing... Read More about The evolution of manufacturing in the Gauteng city-region: From de-industrialization to re-industrialization?.

Behavioural New Keynesian models (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 This paper provides a bird's eye view of the behavioural New Keynesian literature. We discuss three key empirical regularities in macroeconomic data which are not accounted for by the standard New Keynesian model, namely, excess kurtosis, stoc... Read More about Behavioural New Keynesian models.

The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence (2018)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The determinants of the composition of corporate boards remain inconclusive. This study investigates the impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence for a sample of UK listed comp... Read More about The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence.

Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives (2018)
Journal Article

This study explores the ways in which trust deficit undermines anti-corruption initiatives in a context with systemic corruption. Anti-corruption measures as panacea to systemic corruption are not new, but their effectiveness is debatable. Whilst und... Read More about Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives.

Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Economics is a critical subject for the integration of sustainable development into curriculum given the discipline's influence in shaping social metabolism of societies, inequality, environmental impacts and wellbeing. There are... Read More about Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers.

Evidence-based, default-open, risk-managed, user-centred data access (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand from the academic community for more access to confidential data for research purposes, particularly that data collected by government departments. This has happened for three reasons. First, both... Read More about Evidence-based, default-open, risk-managed, user-centred data access.

Internet of things forensics: Recent advances, taxonomy, requirements, and open challenges (2018)
Journal Article

The explosive growth of smart objects and their dependency on wireless technologies for communication increases the vulnerability of Internet of Things (IoT) to cyberattacks. Cyberattacks faced by IoT present daunting challenges to digital forensic e... Read More about Internet of things forensics: Recent advances, taxonomy, requirements, and open challenges.

St Pauls Carnival Economic Impact - July 2018 (2018)
Report

Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical f... Read More about Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh.

Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation (2018)
Journal Article

In this article, we analyze the financing constraints-investment link for the case of Turkey between 1996 and 2013. As different from the existing studies on Turkey, we use a more comprehensive data set that includes both publicly-traded and privatel... Read More about Determinants of investment in Turkey: A firm-level investigation.

How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2018)
Journal Article

Revenues from taxation gain in importance to finance economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One obstacle to enhancing the willingness to remit taxes can be the extortion of bribes by public officials. Using micro-level data from the Afrobaromete... Read More about How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa?.

The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates (2018)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the question concerning the price of geographic mobility in various labour market and migration scenarios. Pivotal points are expected mobility premiums which are sufficient to tip the scales in favour of moving to a geographical... Read More about The price of mobility: How personality and preferences shape the mobility premium of university graduates.

Valuable Puzzles for Proofs-of-Work (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Proof-of-work (PoW) is used as the consensus mechanism in most cryptocurrencies. PoW-based puzzles play an important part in the operation and security of a cryptocurrency, but come at a considerable energy cost. One approach to the problem of energy... Read More about Valuable Puzzles for Proofs-of-Work.

Material Cultures of Financialisation (2018)
Book