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Tracing the sources of contagion in the oil-finance nexus (2022)
Book Chapter

We introduce an approach to trace the genesis of contagion occurring in the oil-finance nexus, which consolidates veteran non-linear oil price measures derived from the empirical oil literature, to construct a rule-based specification for filtering s... Read More about Tracing the sources of contagion in the oil-finance nexus.

Cash holdings and corporate investment: Evidence from COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article

Firms hold cash for precautionary reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic plausibly represents an exogenous shock for which firms hold cash. We examine the impact of cash holdings on corporate investment during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that Capital Expe... Read More about Cash holdings and corporate investment: Evidence from COVID-19.

Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry (2022)
Book Chapter

With the advancement of digital technologies, supply chain management is changing dramatically. However, the practice and application of digital supply chains are complex and challenging. Some studies claim that technology is the core element, while... Read More about Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry.

Can diet change meet climate targets? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ruminant livestock produce more than half of the UK’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, leading the Climate Change Committee to call for diets to move away from meat and dairy. We run simulations in Defra’s partial equilibrium model of the UK’s... Read More about Can diet change meet climate targets?.

Dow, Keynes and the pragmatic tradition: More in common? (2022)
Book Chapter

Dow has demonstrated the significance of methodology for delineating schools of thought in macroeconomics. One methodological distinction relates to the perceived importance of uncertainty, especially for the economic theorist. Placing uncertainty ce... Read More about Dow, Keynes and the pragmatic tradition: More in common?.

Financial literacy in Malaysia, 2015–2018 (2022)
Journal Article

This paper provides an overview of the state of financial literacy of Malaysians using data from the OECD (INFE) Financial Literacy Survey conducted in the year 2015 and 2018. Besides the three components of financial literacy, namely, financial know... Read More about Financial literacy in Malaysia, 2015–2018.

Data use externatilies: Report to department for digital, culture, media and sport by Belmana with the University of the West of England (2022)
Report

This study was commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to:
● Identify the likely positive and negative externalities of data use (that is, the wider social impacts of data use) and
● Provide an assessment of the viabili... Read More about Data use externatilies: Report to department for digital, culture, media and sport by Belmana with the University of the West of England.

Family influences on migration intentions: The role of past experience of involuntary immobility (2022)
Journal Article

The article examines the relationship between past experience of involuntary immobility in a family and the current migration intentions of its members. While family migration experience has been shown to be positively related to migration intentions... Read More about Family influences on migration intentions: The role of past experience of involuntary immobility.

Crowding in during the Seven Years’ War (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

We present a detailed study of the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) using a new dataset based on the Bank of England minutes. We argue that the war and associated Bank of England actions led to a transformation of the financial system. Additionally, whil... Read More about Crowding in during the Seven Years’ War.

Money in the early years of the Soviet Union: Barter and back again - A short-lived experiment of transformation (2022)
Book Chapter

In the earlier drafts of the General Theory, Keynes explicitly argued that the classical tradition of distinguishing between real and monetary variables was not helpful in analysing capitalist economies. While developing his ideas about a monetary ec... Read More about Money in the early years of the Soviet Union: Barter and back again - A short-lived experiment of transformation.

Toward sustainable wearable electronic textiles (2022)
Journal Article

Smart wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) that can detect and differentiate multiple stimuli, while also collecting and storing the diverse array of data signals using highly innovative, multifunctional, and intelligent garments, are of great v... Read More about Toward sustainable wearable electronic textiles.

Frameworks, principles, and accreditation: Making data governance work (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation to the Royal Statistical Society Data Ethics Section, covering the origins and development of the Five Safes, the EDRU approach to problems-solving, principles-based regulation, and how these all need to work together to achieve effectiv... Read More about Frameworks, principles, and accreditation: Making data governance work.

A near-real-time analysis of societal responses to Ukrainian refugee migration in Europe (2022)
Journal Article

Recent events in Ukraine led to a surge in refugee migration originating from within Europe not seen since WWII. Using global data on daily news coverage, this research highlights that during the 8 weeks before the outbreak of open hostilities, there... Read More about A near-real-time analysis of societal responses to Ukrainian refugee migration in Europe.

The dangerous fiction of the "fiscal black hole" (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

Media reporting of the economy and choices facing the new Prime Minister and Chancellor has focused on a supposed ‘black hole’ in the public finances, typically given as being around £50bn in five years’ time. This has been presented as an urgent pri... Read More about The dangerous fiction of the "fiscal black hole".

Performance evaluation of deep learning and boosted trees for cryptocurrency closing price prediction (2022)
Journal Article

The emergence of cryptocurrencies has drawn significant investment capital in recent years with an exponential increase in market capitalization and trade volume. However, the cryptocurrency market is highly volatile and burdened with substantial het... Read More about Performance evaluation of deep learning and boosted trees for cryptocurrency closing price prediction.

Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries (2022)
Journal Article

Can international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2019; n=333,... Read More about Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries.

Investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from investment in identifiable intangible and tangible assets activities (2022)
Journal Article

In this study, we examine whether investments in fixed (identifiable) intangible assets and tangible assets are sensitive to cash flow and the extent to which this sensitivity differs for firms with different levels of financial constraints. Using bo... Read More about Investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from investment in identifiable intangible and tangible assets activities.

Global politico-economic dynamics during a local conflict: Reciprocal patterns of cooperation and sanctions (2022)
Journal Article

Employing global daily news coverage on interactions between stakeholders in G20 countries, this research offers a near-real-time analysis of changing interaction patterns between Russia and other G20 economies after the onset of open military confli... Read More about Global politico-economic dynamics during a local conflict: Reciprocal patterns of cooperation and sanctions.

FX swaps, shadow banks and the global dollar footprint (2022)
Journal Article

The era of dollar-based financial globalisation has seen a steady rise in the use of foreign exchange (FX) swaps. We provide a macrofinancial political economy perspective on the geography of FX swaps, and the spatial effects of central bank policies... Read More about FX swaps, shadow banks and the global dollar footprint.

The effects of audit committee characteristics on its oversight effectiveness: Evidence from Hong Kong (2022)
Journal Article

This study examines the relationships between audit committee (AC) characteristics and its oversight effectiveness primarily measured as accrual and real earnings management in Hong Kong after the Asian financial crisis in 2008 for a sample of Hong K... Read More about The effects of audit committee characteristics on its oversight effectiveness: Evidence from Hong Kong.