Outputs (17)

MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies (2019)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to compare two of the most commonly employed methods employed to measure the Intellectual Capital (IC) value: Market to Book (MtB) ratio and the VAIC, in order to determine the most suitable in the context of Italian list... Read More about MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies.

10 is the safest number that there’s ever been (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When checking frequency and magnitude tables for disclosure risk, the cell threshold (the minimum number of observations in each cell) is the crucial statistic. In rules-based environments, this is a hard limit on what can or can’t be published. In p... Read More about 10 is the safest number that there’s ever been.

User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 - IOS Press and the authors. When producing anonymised microdata for research, national statistics institutes (NSIs) identify a number of 'risk scenarios' of how intruders might seek to attack a confidential dataset. This approach has been cri... Read More about User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata.

Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to re-examine the factors that affect the level of environmental information disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines for Chinese Listed Companies”.

Des... Read More about Post-regulation effect on factors driving environmental disclosures among Chinese listed firms.

The long-term effect of economic value added adoption on the firm’s business decision (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This study aims to examine the long-term effects of adopting economic value added (EVA) as a compensation tool on managers’ behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The authors extend the sample used in pri... Read More about The long-term effect of economic value added adoption on the firm’s business decision.

A Present of Things to Come (2019)
Thesis

This thesis investigates whether individual discount rates are predictive of life satisfaction, career satisfaction and career success. A review of the literature as it stands led me to believe that there is a gap in the literature at the intersectio... Read More about A Present of Things to Come.

Decision-making in the fund management industry: Empirical evidence from European fund managers, buy-side analysts and sell-side analysts (2019)
Thesis

This thesis responds to calls from prominent academics for research on the so-called investment management ‘black box’ of decision-making practices in capital markets.
Motivated by four overarching research objectives, the study examines the followi... Read More about Decision-making in the fund management industry: Empirical evidence from European fund managers, buy-side analysts and sell-side analysts.

Are IDPs satisfied with the quality of public health and education services they receive? A long-term perspective from urban areas in the post-socialist countries (2019)
Report

Government Say-on-Pay, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Evidence from China (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the backdrop of a serial of regulations issued by the Chinese government in an effort to rein in top executives’ compensation in the state-owned enterprises, this study finds that the pay restriction on top executives adversely affects the CSR per... Read More about Government Say-on-Pay, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance: Evidence from China.

Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients (2019)
Journal Article

A major growth area in social science research this century has been access to highly sensitive confidential microdata, often via restricted-access remote facilities. These allow researchers highly unlimited access to manipulate the data but with che... Read More about Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients.

An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores Robert E. Lucas’s policy agenda and his engagement with the public debate between the late 1960s and late 1980s. It investigates how he interacted with the public debate by envisioning key principles of his macroeconomic theory... Read More about An agenda without a plan: Robert E Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate.

Can labor emigration affect education of girls? Evidence from Tajikistan (2019)
Journal Article

This study examines how large-scale, predominantly male emigration affects the education of girls staying in Tajikistan, the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave house... Read More about Can labor emigration affect education of girls? Evidence from Tajikistan.

Reacting to the Lucas critique: The Keynesians’ replies (2019)
Journal Article

In 1976, Robert Lucas explicitly criticized Keynesian macroeconometric models for their inability to correctly predict the effects of alternative economic policies. Today, most contemporary macroeconomists and some historians of economics consider th... Read More about Reacting to the Lucas critique: The Keynesians’ replies.

To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We exp... Read More about To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans.

What is Heterodox Economics?: Conversations with Leading Economists (2019)
Book

Determinants of stock prices in the Egyptian stock market: Traditional asset pricing models versus behavioural asset pricing models (2019)
Thesis

The aim of this thesis is to determine a valuation model for stocks in the Egyptian stock market by comparing conventional and behavioural asset pricing models. To achieve this aim, this thesis constructs and tests the following extensions of the Fam... Read More about Determinants of stock prices in the Egyptian stock market: Traditional asset pricing models versus behavioural asset pricing models.

Capital structure and firm performance in Nigeria (2019)
Journal Article

This paper examines the impact of capital structure on firm performance in Nigeria as well as test the possibility of non-monotonic relationship between capital structure and firm performance based on the prediction of the agency cost theory of capit... Read More about Capital structure and firm performance in Nigeria.