The financial services and markets act 2000
(2000)
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Outputs (393)
Fear strikes again (1999)
Journal Article
Financial services: Diversity is the key to effective regulation (1999)
Journal Article
Diversification and performance in the UK defense industry (1997)
Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between diversification and performance in the UK defence industry. The theoretical arguments which have been advanced to support a general link between diversification and performance are examined together with... Read More about Diversification and performance in the UK defense industry.
European taxation and capital investment (1996)
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A simulated study is conducted of the relative tax incentives to capital investment in Europe. For 1994 required pre-tax rates of return vary from 8.5% for plant and machinery investments in Spain to l3.8% for commercial property in Ireland. Within i... Read More about European taxation and capital investment.
Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression
Preprint / Working Paper
The recent growth in research access to confidential government microdata has prompted the development of more general 'output-based statistical disclosure control' (OSDC) methods which go beyond tabular protection. Central to OSDC is the concept of... Read More about Operationalising ‘safe statistics’: The case of linear regression.
Addressing the human factor in data access: Incentive compatibility, legitimacy and cost-effectiveness in public data resources
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Traditional models of incentivising people suggest that positive incentives are more effective than negative ones. We argue that in data access the opposite can be true, as the assumptions made at the design stage can fundamentally change the user en... Read More about Addressing the human factor in data access: Incentive compatibility, legitimacy and cost-effectiveness in public data resources.
Resistance to change in government: Risk, inertia and incentives
Preprint / Working Paper
There is a popular impression that governments are resistant to change and innovation, and that this is due to a combination of overly bureaucratic processes and a culture of risk aversion. It is debatable that this is well-founded, theoretically or... Read More about Resistance to change in government: Risk, inertia and incentives.
Robert Lucas and the twist of modeling methodology. On some econometric methods and problems in New Classical macroeconomics
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The purpose of this contribution to the epistemology and history of recent macroeconomics is to construct a clear understanding of econometric methods and problems in New Classical macroeconomics.
Most historical literature has focused (so far) on... Read More about Robert Lucas and the twist of modeling methodology. On some econometric methods and problems in New Classical macroeconomics.
How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS
Preprint / Working Paper
A resource-based view of organizations suggests that internal knowledge is amongst the most important sources of competitive advantage. Regardless of whether these ideas are exaggerated, it is not necessary to buy into them all to accept the signific... Read More about How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS.
Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model
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Goodwin cycles result from the dynamic interaction between a profit-led demand regime and a reserve army effect in income distribution. The paper proposes the concept of a pseudo-Goodwin cycle. We define this as a counter-clockwise movement in output... Read More about Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model.
Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income
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The distribution of income between capital and labour has, until very recently, been ignored by the majority of the economics profession. At the same time, the rate of wage growth has systematically lagged the growth of productivity, leading to a fal... Read More about Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income.
Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches
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Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There is however a long tradition of economic analysis which emphasises how growth in a capitalist economy leads to an accumulation of te... Read More about Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches.
Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants
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Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from the young, highly educated/skilled population. This paper uses a new cross-sectional data set of Romanian emigrants to find which... Read More about Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants.
Reflections on the one-minute paper
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This paper captures the perceptions of both a new academic and his students on the use of the one-minute paper (OMP). Much of the originality of this paper derives from the multi-layered qualitative approach which provides a deeper insight into the d... Read More about Reflections on the one-minute paper.
User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata
Preprint / Working Paper
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 paper argues that the strategy used to identify confident... Read More about User-focused threat identification for anonymised microdata.
DSGE models and the Lucas Critique. A historical appraisal
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This contribution to the history of the economic thought aims at describing how “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique” (Lucas, 1976) has been interpreted through four decades of debates. This historical appraisal clarifies how Lucas’s argument i... Read More about DSGE models and the Lucas Critique. A historical appraisal.
Reacting to the Lucas Critique: The Keynesians' pragmatic replies
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We illustrate how the Lucas Critique was called into question by Keynesian macroeconomists during the 1970s and 1980s. Our claim is that Keynesians' reactions were carried out from a pragmatic approach, which addressed the empirical and practical rel... Read More about Reacting to the Lucas Critique: The Keynesians' pragmatic replies.
Hellenic statistical authority mission on microdata access: Final report
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A mission was convened to review current data access practices at the Hellenic Statistical Authority and make recommendations for future development. The resulting report defines a complete data access strategy for the Greek NSI. The report uses the... Read More about Hellenic statistical authority mission on microdata access: Final report.
Five Safes: Designing data access for research
Preprint / Working Paper
What is the best way of managing access to sensitive data? This is not a straightforward question, as it involves the interaction of legal, technical, statistical and, above all, human components to produce a solution. This paper introduces a modelli... Read More about Five Safes: Designing data access for research.