Outputs (18)

Critical observations on financialization and the financial process (2014)
Journal Article

© 2013, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The term "financialization" is a recognition that finance has come to play a key role on the modern capitalist economy. But users of the term do not agree on its meaning and recognition of the growing... Read More about Critical observations on financialization and the financial process.

Development and Financial Reform in Emerging Economies (2014)
Book

A re-evaluation of banking sector developments in transition economics: Intentions and unintended consequences (2014)
Book Chapter

Cost-determined and demand-determined prices: Lessons for the globalized world from development economics (2014)
Book Chapter

Speculation, financial fragility and stock-flow consistency (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper uses a simple stock-flow consistent accounting framework as the basis for an analysis of the speculative financial behaviour of firms and households during a period of rising asset prices. Some shortcomings of Minsky’s theory of the busine... Read More about Speculation, financial fragility and stock-flow consistency.

Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis: Policy, Trends and Sanctions (2014)
Book

In September 2007, the collapse of the United States (US) sub-prime mortgage market resulted in the global meltdown of the financial markets. This resulted in the collapse of many international financial institutions including Northern Rock, Bradfor... Read More about Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis: Policy, Trends and Sanctions.

Financialisation and the financial and economic crises: The case of South Africa (2014)
Report

Mark my words: Discursive central banking in crisis (2014)
Book Chapter

Some extensions of the conditional CAPM (2014)
Thesis

The objective of this thesis is to consider some extensions of the CAPM and to investigate whether such extensions can offer a better explanation for the US average equity returns. This thesis focuses on four main extensions: (i) time-varying factor... Read More about Some extensions of the conditional CAPM.

The financial crisis and white collar crime: The perfect storm? (2014)
Book

The aim of this monograph is to provide a detailed commentary and analytical review of the relationship between the 'Global Financial Crisis' and white collar crime. The monograph begins by highlighting the association betwen 'Global Financial Crisi... Read More about The financial crisis and white collar crime: The perfect storm?.

Development, demography and migration (2014)
Book Chapter

Do Italian non-listed firms manage earnings efficiently or opportunistically? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Earnings management may be efficient or opportunistic depending on the ability of discretionary accruals to communicate information about a firm's future profitability to the public. The existing literature, which focuses mainly on listed firms, prov... Read More about Do Italian non-listed firms manage earnings efficiently or opportunistically?.

The association between accruals, economic value added, and cash value added and the market performance of UK and US firms (2014)
Thesis

Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan (2014)
Journal Article

Research on informal financial institutions in transition economies is scant. This study investigates behaviour of urban money lenders in Uzbekistan. Money lending in Uzbekistan is a relatively new business which emerged mostly in response to targete... Read More about Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan.

Access to sensitive data: Satisfying objectives rather than constraints (2014)
Journal Article

The argument for access to sensitive unit-level data produced within government is usually framed in terms of risk and the legal responsibility to maintain confidentiality. This article argues that the framing of the question may restrict the set of... Read More about Access to sensitive data: Satisfying objectives rather than constraints.

Banks in defence of the homeland: Nexus of ethics and suspicious activity reporting (2014)
Journal Article

This article considers the impact of the legislative and policy responses by the United States of America towards terrorist financing. Firstly, the article provides an overview of the mechanisms utilised by terrorist organisations to fund their opera... Read More about Banks in defence of the homeland: Nexus of ethics and suspicious activity reporting.

Learning from Japan: The European Central Bank and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2014)
Journal Article

What shapes central banks' learning from the policy experiments of their peers? Both economic ideas and organizational interests play important roles. Thus, New Keynesian ideas led central banks to interpret Japan's experience with quantitative easin... Read More about Learning from Japan: The European Central Bank and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis.

How should economics curricula be evaluated? (2014)
Journal Article

© 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper explores the evaluation of economics curricula. It argues that the dominant approach in economics education, experimentalism, has serious limitations which render it an unsuitable evaluation method... Read More about How should economics curricula be evaluated?.