What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland (2018)
Journal Article
Simpson. (2018). What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland. Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2018.1499620

This paper investigates individual’s perceptions of inequality and the impact this has on mass public opinion support for the European Union (EU) in the Republic of Ireland. This question is posed in the context of the onset of the economic and finan... Read More about What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland.

On the predictability of emerging market sovereign credit spreads (2018)
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Audzeyeva. (2018). On the predictability of emerging market sovereign credit spreads. Journal of International Money and Finance, 140 - 157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2018.07.005

This paper examines the quarter-ahead out-of-sample predictability of Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey credit spreads before and after the Lehman Brothers’ default. A model based on the country-specific credit spread curve factors predicts... Read More about On the predictability of emerging market sovereign credit spreads.

BRICS summit in Johannesburg: here’s what the five countries are looking for (2018)
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Over-claiming the circular economy: the missing dimensions (2018)
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(2018). Over-claiming the circular economy: the missing dimensions. Social Business, 103-114. https://doi.org/10.1362/204440818X15208755029618

A new approach to sustainability has been proposed, the 'circular economy', as a pathway for companies - large or small - to engage with the challenges of sustainable business. This paper begins with an overview of the concept of the circular economy... Read More about Over-claiming the circular economy: the missing dimensions.

Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation (2018)
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(2018). Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12175

This paper aims to identify the stable long-run relationships as well as unstable driving forces of the world economy using a small aggregated cointegrated VAR model encompassing quarterly US, UK, Japanese and Euro Area data for the post-Bretton-Wood... Read More about Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation.

The effects of quantitative easing on the integration of UK capital markets (2017)
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(2017). The effects of quantitative easing on the integration of UK capital markets. European Journal of Finance, 999-1024. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2015.1067635

We examine the effects of quantitative easing (QE) on the volatility of and correlation between stocks, short-term bonds and long-term bonds in the UK. Using a multivariate dynamic conditional correlation generalised autoregressive conditional hetero... Read More about The effects of quantitative easing on the integration of UK capital markets.

Hybrid exponential-hyperbolic discounting and growth without commitment (2017)
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Tsoukis. (2017). Hybrid exponential-hyperbolic discounting and growth without commitment. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12197

We analyse the time-consistent intertemporal behaviour of an individual who discounts the future hyperbolically (HD) in the absence of commitment. In continuous-time, we extend Barro's (Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 114 (1999), pp. 1125–1152)... Read More about Hybrid exponential-hyperbolic discounting and growth without commitment.

Do Board CSR Strategy and Orientation Influence Corporate Environmental Disclosures of UK firms. (2017)
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Helfaya, E., & Moussa, T. (2017). Do Board CSR Strategy and Orientation Influence Corporate Environmental Disclosures of UK firms. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(8), 1061-1077. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.1960

The environmental implications of corporate economic activities have led to growing demands for firms and their boards to adopt sustainable strategies and to disseminate more useful information about their activities and impacts on environment. This... Read More about Do Board CSR Strategy and Orientation Influence Corporate Environmental Disclosures of UK firms..

Public sector reforms and Public Private Partnerships: Overview and research agenda (2017)
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(2017). Public sector reforms and Public Private Partnerships: Overview and research agenda. Accounting forum, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2017.01.003

The purpose of this editorial paper is to introduce the special issue and outline its majorthemes. This special issue of Accounting Forum aims to stimulate interdisciplinary and critical research on public sector reforms, particularly in the context... Read More about Public sector reforms and Public Private Partnerships: Overview and research agenda.

The Contrasting Effects of Active and Passive Cooperation on Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from British Local Innovation Networks (2017)
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(2017). The Contrasting Effects of Active and Passive Cooperation on Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from British Local Innovation Networks. International Journal of Production Economics, 102-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.02.013

This paper studies the contrasting effects on innovations and productivity arising from active cooperation in innovation activities among competitors and from passive cooperation induced by these activities’ spillovers. A three-stage productivity fun... Read More about The Contrasting Effects of Active and Passive Cooperation on Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from British Local Innovation Networks.

Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity (2017)
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(2017). Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity. Marketing Theory, 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593117692021

This study discusses netnographic findings involving 472 YouTube postings categorized to identify themes regarding consumers’ experience of music in advertisements. Key themes relate to musical taste, musical indexicality, musical repetition and musi... Read More about Music in advertising and consumer identity: The search for Heideggerian authenticity.

Asset price formation and behavioral biases (2016)
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(2016). Asset price formation and behavioral biases. Review of Behavioural Finance, 137 -155. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-05-2015-0020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the debate on whether psychology affects asset prices using agent-based modeling.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors set up three simulation regimes where the first regime contains fundamental... Read More about Asset price formation and behavioral biases.

Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services (2016)
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Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services. Capital and Class, 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816667423

This article examines the impact on staff of state-imposed public sector reforms alongside austerity cuts since 2010 in the emergency services of England. We discuss the contextual imperatives for change in the police, fire and ambulance services whi... Read More about Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services.

Risk transfer and stakeholder relationships in Public Private Partnerships (2016)
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(2016). Risk transfer and stakeholder relationships in Public Private Partnerships. Accounting forum, 28-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2016.06.004

Drawing on stakeholder theory, this study seeks to gain an insight into the stakeholder management strategies used by the Procuring Authority in Irish road Public Private Partnerships to manage its complex stakeholder relationships.

The National Minimum Wage and the Substitutability Between Young and Old Workers in Low Paid Occupations (2016)
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(2016). The National Minimum Wage and the Substitutability Between Young and Old Workers in Low Paid Occupations. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12168

We study the effect of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on the workforce age composition within the low paying sectors of the British economy. Our interest is in the degree of substitutability between labour inputs (young and old employees). We find e... Read More about The National Minimum Wage and the Substitutability Between Young and Old Workers in Low Paid Occupations.

Identifying the robust economic, geographical and political determinants of FDI: an Extreme Bounds Analysis (2016)
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Chanegriha, M., Stewart, C., & Tsoukis, C. (2017). Identifying the robust economic, geographical and political determinants of FDI: an Extreme Bounds Analysis. Empirical Economics, 52(2), 759-776. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-016-1097-1

Understanding what determines Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows remains a primary concern of economists and policy makers; yet the uncertainty surrounding FDI theories and empirical approaches has created ambiguity regarding the determinants of... Read More about Identifying the robust economic, geographical and political determinants of FDI: an Extreme Bounds Analysis.

Targets and resources: a screening perspective (2016)
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Sikdar. (2016). Targets and resources: a screening perspective. Managerial and Decision Economics, 471-489. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.2798

To secure funding for a project, an agent (informed about the project's type) announces a target output. The principal provides more generous resources for high targets but makes compensation tied to performance relative to the projection. The incent... Read More about Targets and resources: a screening perspective.

Accessible Modelling of Complexity in Health (AMoCH) and associated data flows: asthma as an exemplar (2016)
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(2016). Accessible Modelling of Complexity in Health (AMoCH) and associated data flows: asthma as an exemplar. Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 433 - 438. https://doi.org/10.14236/jhi.v23i1.863

Background Modelling is an important part of information science. Models are abstractions of reality. We use models in the following contexts: (1) to describe the data and information flows in clinical practice to information scientists, (2) to compa... Read More about Accessible Modelling of Complexity in Health (AMoCH) and associated data flows: asthma as an exemplar.

The Fine Jewellery Industry: Corporate Responsibility Challenges and Institutional Forces Facing SMEs (2016)
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(2016). The Fine Jewellery Industry: Corporate Responsibility Challenges and Institutional Forces Facing SMEs. Journal of Business Ethics, 681 - 699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3071-4

There has been limited coverage of the corporate responsibility (CR) practices of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the mainstream CR literature. Furthermore, there has been no systematic analysis of the responsibilities of the high value... Read More about The Fine Jewellery Industry: Corporate Responsibility Challenges and Institutional Forces Facing SMEs.

Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda (2015)
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(2015). Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda. Policy Sciences, 49, 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-015-9238-5

The systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory has shifted the focus away from seeking to design separate, internally deliberative ‘mini-publics’ and towards a new appreciation of their external, systemic quality. Yet, so far, such accounts have... Read More about Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda.