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Prospects for a heterodox economics of the environment and sustainability (2012)
Journal Article

Rating or no rating? That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies (2012)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to examine the main determinants of the rating likelihood of UK companies. We use a binary probit specification to model the main drivers of a firm's propensity to be rated. Using a sample of 245 non-financial UK companies ov... Read More about Rating or no rating? That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies.

The Re-Emerging Role of the State in Contemporary Russia (2012)
Journal Article

I examine ownership structure of Russian firms during the 1998-2006 period, where a greater emphasis is placed on motivations behind increased government ownership in the latter years, when oligarchs' opportunistic influence on the firm diminished as... Read More about The Re-Emerging Role of the State in Contemporary Russia.

Measuring the perceived importance of ethics and social responsibility in financial services: A narrative-inductive approach (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose - This paper aims to reflect the argument that the impetus to engage in socially responsible actions is ultimately reinforced by the perceived belief that doing so will be beneficial to the corporation in the long run. Design/methodology/appr... Read More about Measuring the perceived importance of ethics and social responsibility in financial services: A narrative-inductive approach.

Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile? (2012)
Journal Article

Hayek famously claimed that he would prefer a "liberal" dictator to "democratic government lacking in liberalism." While Hayek's views of the Pinochet regime have generated much controversy, surprisingly little has been written about Hayek's defense... Read More about Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile?.

Liquidity preference, uncertainty, and recession in a stock-flow consistent model (2012)
Journal Article

This paper develops a stock-flow consistent model that explicitly integrates the role of liquidity preference and perceived uncertainty into the decision-making process of households, firms, and commercial banks. Emphasis is placed on (1) the link be... Read More about Liquidity preference, uncertainty, and recession in a stock-flow consistent model.

Corporate governance disclosure practices by Swaziland public enterprises (2012)
Journal Article

Commercial law: Principles and policy (2012)
Book

This innovative textbook examines commercial law and the social and political context in which it develops. Topical examples, such as funding for terrorism, demonstrate this fast-moving field's relevance to today's concerns. This wide-ranging subject... Read More about Commercial law: Principles and policy.

Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis (2012)
Journal Article

AbstractThe global financial crisis forcefully highlighted the importance of curbing the impact of large and volatile capital inflows on growth and financial stability in developing countries. It led the IMF to reconsider its long-standing rejection... Read More about Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis.

The power of collateral: The ECB and geographies of bank funding (2012)
Journal Article

This paper explores the importance of geographies of bank funding for the design of central banks’ crisis interventions in financial markets. It first distinguishes between market-based and bank-based measures to then focus on the collateral manageme... Read More about The power of collateral: The ECB and geographies of bank funding.

The road to financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: Revisiting the early policies and politics of stabilizing transition (2012)
Journal Article

Early stabilization policies played an important part in the financialization of the formerly planned economies. The excess demand narrative, one of the least contested ‘problems’ of post-socialist transformation, structured central banks’ liquidity... Read More about The road to financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: Revisiting the early policies and politics of stabilizing transition.

Crisis in the eurozone (2012)
Book

The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition (2012)
Journal Article

Narratives of macroeconomic stabilization played an important part in the financialization of the formerly planned economies. The excess demand narrative, one of the least contested 'problems' of post-socialist transformation, shaped central banks' l... Read More about The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition.

Money laundering: An endless cycle (2012)
Book

This book provides a detailed examination of anti-money laundering policies and legislative frameworks in a number of jurisdictions and considers how successful these jurisdictions have been in implementing international measures to combat money laun... Read More about Money laundering: An endless cycle.

Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies (2012)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to examine the main determinants of the rating likelihood of UK companies. We use a binary probit specification to model the main drivers of a firm’s propensity to be rated. Using a sample of 245 non-financial UK companies ov... Read More about Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies.

The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation (2012)
Journal Article

This study examines the determinants of the decision of UK non-financial companies to solicit a credit rating drawing upon the information asymmetry, signalling, agency and default literature. The paper extends the current literature on the determina... Read More about The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation.

The stock-flow consistent approach with active financial markets (2012)
Book Chapter

Dynamic earnings within tanker markets: An investigation of exogenous and endogenous structure breaks (2012)
Journal Article

Corporate governance: Between instrumentality and institutional drivers (2012)
Journal Article

Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK (2012)
Journal Article

It is widely reported for many countries, including the UK, that income velocity has been highly variable around a declining trend in recent years. This paper advances the following hypothesis. The demand for credit and hence the broad money stock ar... Read More about Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK.