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Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2022). Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 35, pages1019–1037. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09893-7

What is viral law? In order to being my discussion, I note that the last two years have been extremely difficult to understand and that we, meaning those who have lived through the pandemic, have struggled to make sense. Thus, I make the argument tha... Read More about Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19.

Rape Stereotype Acceptance in the General Population of England and Wales (2022)
Journal Article
Hermolle, M., Andrews, S. J., & Huang, C. (2022). Rape Stereotype Acceptance in the General Population of England and Wales. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(23-24), https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221076162

The #MeToo movement has facilitated a growing awareness in the UK of rape stereotypes but there has been little research on how accurately rape is perceived in this region, especially regarding demographics such as ethnicity and age. This study recru... Read More about Rape Stereotype Acceptance in the General Population of England and Wales.

Using Absolutist Word Frequency from Online Searches to Measure Population Mental Health Dynamics (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Using Absolutist Word Frequency from Online Searches to Measure Population Mental Health Dynamics. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06392-4

Purpose
The assessment of population mental health relies on survey data from representative samples, which come with considerable costs. Drawing on research which established that absolutist words (e.g. never) are semantic markers for depression, w... Read More about Using Absolutist Word Frequency from Online Searches to Measure Population Mental Health Dynamics.

Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions (2022)
Journal Article
Demirag, I., Kungwal, T., & Bakkar, Y. (2022). Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions. Managerial Finance, 48(3), 392 - 408. https://doi.org/10.1108/mf-07-2021-0336

<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>This paper investigates stakeholders' perspectives of share buybacks in the context of time-horizons of investment decisions and strategy.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:s... Read More about Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions.

Contagion testing in frontier markets under alternative stressful S&P 500 market scenarios (2022)
Journal Article
Mahadeo, S. M., Heinlein, R., & Legrenzi, G. (2022). Contagion testing in frontier markets under alternative stressful S&P 500 market scenarios. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 60, Article 101629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2021.101629

We use alternative approaches to identify stable and stressful scenarios in the S&P 500 market, to offer a new perspective for constructing contagion tests in recipient frontier markets vulnerable to disturbances from this source market. The S&P 500... Read More about Contagion testing in frontier markets under alternative stressful S&P 500 market scenarios.

Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond (2021)
Journal Article
Bello. (2021). Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04972-4

This study bridged the gap in the literature by exploring the overlaps between public financial accountability and religious sentiments. Previous studies have considered accountability in specific religions and religious organisations through the exp... Read More about Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond.

Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: an international qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2021). Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: an international qualitative study. Health Education Journal, 811-832. https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969211019459

Objectives: To gain insight into children’s health-related knowledge and understanding of SARS-CoV2 and measures adopted to mitigate transmission.
Design: A child-centred qualitative creative element, embedded in an online mixed method survey of ch... Read More about Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: an international qualitative study.

Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries (2021)
Journal Article
Didier, P., Nguyen-The, C., Martens, L., Foden, M., Dumitrascu, L., Octavian Mihalache, A., Ioana Nicolau, A., Skuland, S. E., Truninger, M., Junqueira, L., & Maitre, I. (2021). Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries. Food Control, 127, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108062

Nearly 40% foodborne outbreaks in the European Union are attributable to food practices in domestic homes that include handling and preparation of raw chicken. Hand washing is an important way to prevent cross-contamination with pathogens during chic... Read More about Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries.

Gentrification (2021)
Book Chapter
Peacock. (2021). Gentrification. In The City in American Literature and Culture (103-117). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895262.007

This chapter uproots the border from the perimeter of the country, from the traditional dyad in which it is embedded and releases it in the urban landscape. The premise is that just as the category of space has been mobilized in the work of geographe... Read More about Gentrification.

The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire (2021)
Journal Article
Lucherini. (2021). The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire. Critical Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.1950638

E-cigarettes are believed to be less harmful than combustible tobacco. However, e-cigarettes have created divisions in public health: within and between academia, policy and practice. As e-cigarettes proliferate, and public health debates intensify,... Read More about The affective economy of vaping: a qualitative analysis of responses to an online questionnaire.

Stock market volatility and jumps in times of uncertainty (2021)
Journal Article
Megaritis. (2021). Stock market volatility and jumps in times of uncertainty. Journal of International Money and Finance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2021.102355

In this paper we examine the predictive power of latent macroeconomic uncertainty on US stock market volatility and jump tail risk. We find that increasing macroeconomic uncertainty predicts a subsequent rise in volatility and price jumps in the US e... Read More about Stock market volatility and jumps in times of uncertainty.

From Sustainable Global Value Chains to Circular Economy—Different Silos, Different Perspectives, but Many Opportunities to Build Bridges (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). From Sustainable Global Value Chains to Circular Economy—Different Silos, Different Perspectives, but Many Opportunities to Build Bridges. Circular Economy and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00015-2

A growing interest in the circular economy concept has pushed the discourse in various management-related disciplines beyond established boundaries, with calls to better address how such a model may be developed in a world of global value chains. Sti... Read More about From Sustainable Global Value Chains to Circular Economy—Different Silos, Different Perspectives, but Many Opportunities to Build Bridges.

A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation' (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation'. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1172

The story of the past 40 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain leading to long-term unemployment and discarded generations that have been excluded socially and economically (Pearson 1987a, 1987b, Buchanan and Young 2000).... Read More about A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation'.

Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: the hypothesis test strikes back! (2021)
Journal Article
Lewis, M., Bromley, K., Sutton, C., McCray, G., Myers, H., & Lancaster, G. (2021). Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: the hypothesis test strikes back!. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7, Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00770-x

BACKGROUND: The current CONSORT guidelines for reporting pilot trials do not recommend hypothesis testing of clinical outcomes on the basis that a pilot trial is under-powered to detect such differences and this is the aim of the main trial. It state... Read More about Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: the hypothesis test strikes back!.

Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference (2021)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R., Davis, J. T. M., Robertson, E., Lew‐Levy, S., Neldner, K., Nielsen, M., & Hines, M. (2021). Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference. Child Development, 92(4), 1574-1589. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13528

Preferences for pink and blue were tested in children aged 4-11 years in three small-scale societies: Shipibo villages in the Peruvian Amazon, kastom villages in the highlands of Tanna Island, Vanuatu, and BaYaka foragers in the northern Republic of... Read More about Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference.

Strategic Environmental Policy and International Market Share Rivalry under Differentiated Bertrand Oligopoly (2020)
Journal Article
Lapan, H., & Sikdar, S. (2020). Strategic Environmental Policy and International Market Share Rivalry under Differentiated Bertrand Oligopoly. Oxford Economic Papers, 215-235. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa035

We analyse strategic environmental policies under international Bertrand oligopoly when firms in different industries, located in different countries, produce differentiated products. Under cooperation, emission prices always exceed the joint margina... Read More about Strategic Environmental Policy and International Market Share Rivalry under Differentiated Bertrand Oligopoly.

When is entrepreneurial orientation beneficial for new product performance? The roles of ambidexterity and market turbulence (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). When is entrepreneurial orientation beneficial for new product performance? The roles of ambidexterity and market turbulence. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-02-2020-0103

Purpose Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is an exploratory orientation because its dimensions such as innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking are the essence of exploration that entails uncertain returns. While literature suggests firms might n... Read More about When is entrepreneurial orientation beneficial for new product performance? The roles of ambidexterity and market turbulence.

News, fiscal rules and the Keynesian multiplier in a DSGE model (2020)
Journal Article
Tsoukis, C. (2020). News, fiscal rules and the Keynesian multiplier in a DSGE model

We extend the standard Smets-Wouters (2007) medium-sized DSGE model to analyse the effects of news and the Keynesian multiplier. News is modelled in a novel way compared to the literature, as revisions of expectations regarding future fundamentals. N... Read More about News, fiscal rules and the Keynesian multiplier in a DSGE model.