Outputs (393)

The financial crisis and white collar crime: The perfect storm? (2014)
Book

The aim of this monograph is to provide a detailed commentary and analytical review of the relationship between the 'Global Financial Crisis' and white collar crime. The monograph begins by highlighting the association betwen 'Global Financial Crisi... Read More about The financial crisis and white collar crime: The perfect storm?.

Development, demography and migration (2014)
Book Chapter

Do Italian non-listed firms manage earnings efficiently or opportunistically? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Earnings management may be efficient or opportunistic depending on the ability of discretionary accruals to communicate information about a firm's future profitability to the public. The existing literature, which focuses mainly on listed firms, prov... Read More about Do Italian non-listed firms manage earnings efficiently or opportunistically?.

The association between accruals, economic value added, and cash value added and the market performance of UK and US firms (2014)
Thesis

Access to sensitive data: Satisfying objectives rather than constraints (2014)
Journal Article

The argument for access to sensitive unit-level data produced within government is usually framed in terms of risk and the legal responsibility to maintain confidentiality. This article argues that the framing of the question may restrict the set of... Read More about Access to sensitive data: Satisfying objectives rather than constraints.

Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan (2014)
Journal Article

Research on informal financial institutions in transition economies is scant. This study investigates behaviour of urban money lenders in Uzbekistan. Money lending in Uzbekistan is a relatively new business which emerged mostly in response to targete... Read More about Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan.

Banks in defence of the homeland: Nexus of ethics and suspicious activity reporting (2014)
Journal Article

This article considers the impact of the legislative and policy responses by the United States of America towards terrorist financing. Firstly, the article provides an overview of the mechanisms utilised by terrorist organisations to fund their opera... Read More about Banks in defence of the homeland: Nexus of ethics and suspicious activity reporting.

Learning from Japan: The European Central Bank and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2014)
Journal Article

What shapes central banks' learning from the policy experiments of their peers? Both economic ideas and organizational interests play important roles. Thus, New Keynesian ideas led central banks to interpret Japan's experience with quantitative easin... Read More about Learning from Japan: The European Central Bank and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis.

How should economics curricula be evaluated? (2014)
Journal Article

© 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper explores the evaluation of economics curricula. It argues that the dominant approach in economics education, experimentalism, has serious limitations which render it an unsuitable evaluation method... Read More about How should economics curricula be evaluated?.

The price mechanism and the distribution of income in Kalecki's economics and post-Kaleckian economics (2013)
Book Chapter

To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article

The origins of the international community’s policy and legislative measures towards confiscating the proceeds of crime can be traced back to the instigation of the ‘War on Drugs’. The scope and remit of these confiscation powers were extended follo... Read More about To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

The interaction between equity and credit risks (2013)
Thesis

Equity and debt are two distinct classes of securities in terms of investing risks and potential return, but their value depends on the same underlying assets of the firm and therefore the risk-return tradeoff of each security should be systematicall... Read More about The interaction between equity and credit risks.

The efficacy of high performance work practices in the Middle East: evidence from Algerian firms (2013)
Journal Article

Although there is developing evidence on the effectiveness of global HRM best practices in emerging and developing economies, little is known about the efficacy of those practices in the Middle East. This study examines the impact of high performance... Read More about The efficacy of high performance work practices in the Middle East: evidence from Algerian firms.

The new criminal offence of reckless misconduct for bankers (2013)
Journal Article

Does mandatory adoption of IFRS guarantee compliance? (2013)
Journal Article

In this study, we examine whether the mandatory adoption of IFRS by Turkish listed companies in 2005 was successful in practice and what role firm and country level factors played in the adoption. We determine the firm-specific factors that affect th... Read More about Does mandatory adoption of IFRS guarantee compliance?.

Review of 'Unemployment, recession and effective demand: The contributions of Marx, Keynes and Kalecki', by Claudio Sardoni (2013)
Journal Article

How can the EU Federal Government spearhead an employment-led recovery? (2013)
Other

Short run reaction to news announcements: UK evidence (2013)
Journal Article

In this paper we aim to investigate the behaviour of returns around corporate news announcements. The motivation of the paper is that neither the broad classification of news into “good” and “bad” in many previous studies, nor the focus on only one n... Read More about Short run reaction to news announcements: UK evidence.

Implementing the new science of risk management to tanker freight markets (2013)
Thesis

Studies in the area of shipping freight risk measurement and management are limited and the understandings of the impact of freight volatility dynamics on the freight market remain insufficient and under-researched. The few studies that explore diffe... Read More about Implementing the new science of risk management to tanker freight markets.

White collar crime and the global financial crisis; How long will we have to wait for the ‘day of reckoning’? (2013)
Journal Article

During the height of the Global Financial Crisis, and whilst leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron boldly proclaimed that the City of London faced a ‘Day of Reckoning’ and that severe penalties would be imposed for those bankers whose reckl... Read More about White collar crime and the global financial crisis; How long will we have to wait for the ‘day of reckoning’?.