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Is mortality spatial or social? (2014)
Journal Article
O'Hare, C., & Li, Y. (2014). Is mortality spatial or social?. Economic modelling, 42, 198-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2014.06.009

Mortality modelling for the purposes of demographic forecasting and actuarial pricing is generally done at an aggregate level using national data. Modelling at this level fails to capture the variation in mortality within country and potentially lead... Read More about Is mortality spatial or social?.

The choice of commodity tax base in the presence of horizontal foreign direct investment (2014)
Journal Article
McCracken, S. (2015). The choice of commodity tax base in the presence of horizontal foreign direct investment. International tax and public finance, 22(5), 811-833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-014-9332-1

We analyse the choice of commodity tax base, when countries set their taxes non-cooperatively in a reciprocal dumping model of homogeneous goods trade with horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). We show that the consumption base (destination pri... Read More about The choice of commodity tax base in the presence of horizontal foreign direct investment.

Structural breaks in mortality models and their consequences (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Hare, C., & Li, Y. (2014, July). Structural breaks in mortality models and their consequences. Presented at Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling, and Analysis (ISUMA), Liverpool, UK

In recent years, the issue of life expectancy has become of upmost importance to pension providers, insurance companies and the government bodies in the developed world. Significant and consistent improvements in mortality rates and, hence, life expe... Read More about Structural breaks in mortality models and their consequences.

Supply chain management resources, capabilities and execution (2014)
Journal Article
Kotzab, H., Teller, C., Grant, D. B., & Friis, A. (2015). Supply chain management resources, capabilities and execution. Production planning & control, 26(7), 525-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2014.927932

This paper identifies inter- and intra-organisational management resources that determine the level of execution of inter-firm alliance supply chain management (SCM). By drawing on network and resource-based view theories, a con- ceptual model propos... Read More about Supply chain management resources, capabilities and execution.

A cross-country analysis of herd behavior in Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Mobarek, A., Mollah, S., & Keasey, K. (2014). A cross-country analysis of herd behavior in Europe. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 32, 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2014.05.008

This paper examines country specific herding behavior in European liquid constituent indices for the period of 2001-2012. While we report insignificant results for the whole period, we document significant herding behavior during crises and asymmetri... Read More about A cross-country analysis of herd behavior in Europe.

Health cycles and health transitions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chakraborty, S., Papageorgiou, C., & Perez Sebastian, F. Health cycles and health transitions

We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention. The incentive to do so comes f... Read More about Health cycles and health transitions.

Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes (2014)
Journal Article
Mazouz, K., & Wang, J. (2014). Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes. Applied financial economics, 24(14), 939-948. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603107.2014.914140

This study examines individual commodity futures price reactions to large one-day price changes, or “shocks”. The mean-adjusted abnormal return model suggests that investors in 6 of the 18 commodity futures examined in this study either underreact or... Read More about Commodity futures price behaviour following large one-day price changes.

Investigating household recycling behaviour through the interactions between personal and situational factors (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A-Jalil, E. E., Grant, D. B., Nicholson, J. D., & Deutz, P. Investigating household recycling behaviour through the interactions between personal and situational factors. Presented at Waste Management and The Environment VII

In recent years household recycling behaviour (HRB) has become a focal point in social science research to understand the concept of household waste recycling management. Household recycling systems involve two main actors: households and municipalit... Read More about Investigating household recycling behaviour through the interactions between personal and situational factors.

Money and economic growth (2014)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2014). Money and economic growth. Journal of economic asymmetries, 11, 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2014.04.002

We study results of the cash in advance and money in utility models about the nature of fluctuations in economic activities and welfare in three interdependent economies. When the money is exogenously introduced in the form of cash in advance, it ser... Read More about Money and economic growth.

Efficient contracting, earnings smoothing and managerial accounting discretion (2014)
Journal Article
Khalil, M., & Simon, J. (2014). Efficient contracting, earnings smoothing and managerial accounting discretion. Journal of applied accounting research, 15(1), 100-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-06-2012-0050

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the contracting incentives (i.e. bonus plans, debt covenants, political costs hypotheses), and income smoothing can explain accounting choices in an emerging country, Egypt. Design/methodology... Read More about Efficient contracting, earnings smoothing and managerial accounting discretion.