Outputs (393)

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.

Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought (2018)
Journal Article

Daniela Tavasci and Luigi Ventimiglia, two scholars from the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London (uk), edited a volume that brings together the contributions of economics educators to the teaching of the
history of eco... Read More about Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought.

Confidentiality and linked data (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the confidentiality issues around linked data. It notes that the use and availability of secondary (adminstrative or social media) data, allied to powerful processing and machine learning techniques, in theory means that re-ide... Read More about Confidentiality and linked data.

Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Despite the growth of alcohol consumption and international migration in many developing countries, the links between the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of household members, receiving remit... Read More about Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.

Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This article focuses on a neglected part of the well-known Balassa–Samuelson (B-S) effect in international trade, namely, the specific role of tourism in equilibrating the purchasing power parities across areas. The article aims... Read More about Revisiting the Balassa–Samuelson effect: International tourism and cultural proximity.

The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence (2018)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The determinants of the composition of corporate boards remain inconclusive. This study investigates the impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence for a sample of UK listed comp... Read More about The impacts of multiple large ownership structure on board independence.

Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives (2018)
Journal Article

This study explores the ways in which trust deficit undermines anti-corruption initiatives in a context with systemic corruption. Anti-corruption measures as panacea to systemic corruption are not new, but their effectiveness is debatable. Whilst und... Read More about Trust deficit and anti-corruption initiatives.

Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Economics is a critical subject for the integration of sustainable development into curriculum given the discipline's influence in shaping social metabolism of societies, inequality, environmental impacts and wellbeing. There are... Read More about Integrating sustainable development into economics curriculum: A case study analysis and sector wide survey of barriers.

Evidence-based, default-open, risk-managed, user-centred data access (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand from the academic community for more access to confidential data for research purposes, particularly that data collected by government departments. This has happened for three reasons. First, both... Read More about Evidence-based, default-open, risk-managed, user-centred data access.

Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical f... Read More about Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh.

Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depressio... Read More about Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind.

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0 (2018)
Journal Article

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0

Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems (2018)
Report

Power to Change was established by the Big Lottery as an organisation whose mission is to fund community businesses and through such investment make an impact on the most disadvantaged places in England. Through setting its mission to target the most... Read More about Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems.

Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Association for Comparative Economic Studies We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large represent... Read More about Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries.