Outputs (28)

The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the growing importance of digital-based financial inclusion as a form of organising development interventions through networks of state institutions, international de... Read More about The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era.

‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Individual's expected wages exceed predicted market wages. Rational expectations imply the divergence should be zero. If individuals over-estimate the return fr... Read More about ‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility.

The connectedness between crude oil and financial markets: Evidence from implied volatility indices (2016)
Journal Article

In this paper we exploit newly introduced implied volatility indexes to investigate the directional risk transfer from oil to US equities, Euro/Dollar exchange rates, precious metals and agricultural commodities. We find significant volatility transm... Read More about The connectedness between crude oil and financial markets: Evidence from implied volatility indices.

A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions (2016)
Journal Article

This paper introduces a new regional “financial maturity index” (FMI) based on previous studies of financial development theory. We explore a unified measure of regional financial development by constructing a new composite financial maturity model.... Read More about A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions.

Financial systems in UK universities: A case study of three universities (2016)
Thesis

Universities in the UK are having difficult times with growing external pressures such as the introduction of £9,000 tuition fee, deregulation of student number control, the increased level of competition for student recruitment and research funding,... Read More about Financial systems in UK universities: A case study of three universities.

Improving data quality: The value of the user as data detective (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation, we explore how users can contribute to a better understanding of data quality. We illustrate, with reference to minimum wage compliance, how users identify the sort of data problems missed by NSIs

Do Shadow Banks Create Money? ‘Financialisation’ and the Monetary Circuit (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The rise of the shadow banking system is viewed through the theoretical lens of Graziani's Monetary Theory of Production. Graziani's categories of ‘initial finance’ and ‘final finance’ are used to analyse the new forms... Read More about Do Shadow Banks Create Money? ‘Financialisation’ and the Monetary Circuit.

Department of social services data access project final report (2016)
Report

This report reviews the context and options available to the Department of Social Service (DSS) in developing its data access strategy, and proposes future developments based upon international practice. The structure of the report is separated into... Read More about Department of social services data access project final report.

Understanding apprentice pay: Final report (2016)
Report

This is the final report from a study of apprentice pay in the UK. It uses a mixed methods approach. Econometric analysis of the Apprentice Pay Survey and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings confirms findings of previous reports that the apprenti... Read More about Understanding apprentice pay: Final report.

Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents’ quality of life, little is known about how residents’ well-being is affected by actual tourist arrivals. This a... Read More about Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe.

The (impossible) repo trinity: The political economy of repo markets (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In its capacity as debt issuer, the state has played a growing role in financial life over the last 30 years. To examine this role and connect it to shadow banking, the paper develops th... Read More about The (impossible) repo trinity: The political economy of repo markets.

Higher education reforms in Uzbekistan: Expanding vocational education at the expense of higher education? (2016)
Journal Article

This short article discusses fundamental reforms undertaking the in higher education system of Uzbekistan since 1991.

The world is your oyster: The effects of knowledge, human capital, technology and entry timing on international growth (2016)
Journal Article

We draw on elements of several established theories of internationalization to provide a framework for exploring international market entry and scale of entry measured by number of foreign markets entered for a sample of young, high-tech, firms from... Read More about The world is your oyster: The effects of knowledge, human capital, technology and entry timing on international growth.

UK credit and discouragement during the GFC (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The availability of credit to entrepreneurs with good investment opportunities is an important facilitator of economic growth. Under normal economic conditions, most entrepreneurs who requested loans... Read More about UK credit and discouragement during the GFC.

Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic (2016)
Thesis

A review of the extensive separate literatures on salesmanship and entrepreneurship highlights interesting similarities between the two professions, but there is a lack of studies examining these similarities or explaining the differences. In particu... Read More about Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic.

An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings (2016)
Thesis

The role of credit rating agencies has come under severe scrutiny following the recent financial crisis, due to their claim, ab initio, of assigning true creditworthiness in the form of rating notches to financial institutions and their instruments.... Read More about An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings.

Bridging the gap between energy and the environment (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. Meeting the world's energy demand is a major challenge for society over the coming century. To identify the most sustainable energy pathways to meet this demand, analysis of energy systems on which policy is based must move beyond... Read More about Bridging the gap between energy and the environment.

A review (and a comment) on Michel De Vroey's history of macroeconomics (2016)
Journal Article

Review essay on Michel De Vroey, A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 445 pages, ISBN: 9781107584945.

The Asymmetric Momentum Effect in the Chinese Class A Share Market Amid Market Swings (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). This paper investigates the asymmetric momentum effect over time periods following UP and DOWN market states in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges of the Chinese Class A share market. We show that the post-UP-market mome... Read More about The Asymmetric Momentum Effect in the Chinese Class A Share Market Amid Market Swings.

In the absence of private property rights: Political control and state corporatism during Putin’s first tenure (2016)
Journal Article

This paper argues that Russia’s choice of economic organisation, which is based on the renewed role of the state, is a response to the existence of severe transaction costs, and subsequent mitigation of contractual incompleteness in the absence of a... Read More about In the absence of private property rights: Political control and state corporatism during Putin’s first tenure.