Student participation in sporting activities (2009)
Journal Article

Given that many universities spend large sum of money supplying sports facilities for student use, comparatively little is known about the factors that influence the quantity of student sporting participation. This article presents evidence which sug... Read More about Student participation in sporting activities.

The downside of ‘financialisation’ of international commodity markets (2009)
Journal Article

The current global financial crisis has revealed that many economies, both developed and developing, have become increasingly ‘financialised’. This Development Viewpoint focuses on the ‘financialisation’ of the international marketing of coffee (the... Read More about The downside of ‘financialisation’ of international commodity markets.

Business productivity and area productivity in rural England (2009)
Journal Article

Rural area productivity and rural business productivity measure different things. This paper presents an empirical analysis of labour productivity differentials across the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) definition of '... Read More about Business productivity and area productivity in rural England.

The funding of credit unions - Where has all the money gone? (2008)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to critically assess the impact of government funding upon the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK) in light of the unprecedented level of financial support provided by the Labour government since 1997. The ar... Read More about The funding of credit unions - Where has all the money gone?.

Scattering off an oscillating target: Basic mechanisms and their impact on cross sections (2008)
Journal Article

We investigate classical scattering off a harmonically oscillating target in two spatial dimensions. The shape of the scatterer is assumed to have a boundary which is locally convex at any point and does not support the presence of any periodic orbit... Read More about Scattering off an oscillating target: Basic mechanisms and their impact on cross sections.

Rare events and their impact on velocity diffusion in a stochastic Fermi-Ulam model (2008)
Journal Article

A simplified version of the stochastic Fermi-Ulam model is investigated in order to elucidate the effect of a class of rare low-velocity events on the velocity diffusion process and consequently Fermi acceleration. The relative fraction of these even... Read More about Rare events and their impact on velocity diffusion in a stochastic Fermi-Ulam model.

Book review: Commodity Prices and Development - Edited by Roman Grynberg and Samantha Newton (2008)
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Country-level business performance and policy asymmetries in the UK (2008)
Journal Article

The HM Treasury identifies the key 'drivers' of business performance and productivity differentials, which include skills, investment and competition. This paper presents an empirical investigation into the effects of these drivers on business-level... Read More about Country-level business performance and policy asymmetries in the UK.

Explaining spatial variation in business performance in Great Britain (2007)
Journal Article

Fermi acceleration in the randomized driven Lorentz gas and the Fermi-Ulam model (2007)
Journal Article

Fermi acceleration of an ensemble of noninteracting particles evolving in a stochastic two-moving wall variant of the Fermi-Ulam model (FUM) and the phase randomized harmonically driven periodic Lorentz gas is investigated. As shown in, the static wa... Read More about Fermi acceleration in the randomized driven Lorentz gas and the Fermi-Ulam model.

Export performance of South West businesses: Measuring and improving the impact of public intervention on regional exports (2007)
Report

Report prepared for the South West of England Regional Development Agency.

Hyperacceleration in a stochastic Fermi-Ulam model (2006)
Journal Article

Fermi acceleration in a Fermi-Ulam model, consisting of an ensemble of particles bouncing between two, infinitely heavy, stochastically oscillating hard walls, is investigated. It is shown that the widely used approximation, neglecting the displaceme... Read More about Hyperacceleration in a stochastic Fermi-Ulam model.

The determinants of regional and sub-regional productivity differentials (2006)
Report

Report prepared for National Assembly of Wales

Income convergence across U.S. States: An analysis using measures of concordance and discordance (2005)
Journal Article

This paper presents methods to analyze convergence in cross-sectional data collected over time using distribution free statistics that are not sensitive to the magnitudes involved. Measures of concordance and discordance are employed in the empirical... Read More about Income convergence across U.S. States: An analysis using measures of concordance and discordance.

The New Price Makers: An investigation into the impact of financial investment on coffee price behaviour
Preprint / Working Paper

The collapse of the international commodity agreements in the 1980s, together with the liberalisation of marketing systems in commodity exporting developing countries under structural adjustment programs have removed the role of the state in the pric... Read More about The New Price Makers: An investigation into the impact of financial investment on coffee price behaviour.

Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper offers a multi-dimensional critique of recent reforms to UK Economics curricular frameworks. The paper assesses the reforms in terms of their extent and the positions taken within them on their approach to economics, treatment of politics,... Read More about Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique.

The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains
Preprint / Working Paper

The 1990s has seen a shift in policy from multilateral price stabilisation schemes towards market liberalisation and private risk management strategies in the context of income stabilisation for agro-commodity exporting low-income countries. This pap... Read More about The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains.

SMEs access to formal finance in post-communist economies: Do institutional structure and political connectedness matter?
Preprint / Working Paper

In post-communist economies, a disproportionately greater share of formal finance is channelled to larger enterprises and SMEs lack appropriately-priced formal finance. This article examines whether institutional structure and interpersonal connected... Read More about SMEs access to formal finance in post-communist economies: Do institutional structure and political connectedness matter?.

Climate change, financial stability and monetary policy
Preprint / Working Paper

Using a stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model, we analyse (i) the effects of climate change on financial stability and (ii) the financial and global warming implications of a green quantitative easing (QE) programme. Emphasis is placed on th... Read More about Climate change, financial stability and monetary policy.

Practice or theory? A phenomenographic study of teachers’ perceptions of teaching auditing in higher education
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In recent years the business world has become more complex and the role of the professional auditor has had to change in order to address this increasing complexity. What had been seen as a technical compliance role has now evolved to include higher... Read More about Practice or theory? A phenomenographic study of teachers’ perceptions of teaching auditing in higher education.