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The natural resource curse and fiscal decentralization (2015)
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Pérez-Sebastián, F., & Raveh, O. (2016). The natural resource curse and fiscal decentralization. American journal of agricultural economics, 98(1), 212-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aav051

© 2015 The Author. Natural resource abundance is a blessing for some countries, but a curse for others. We show that differences across countries in the degree of fiscal decentralization can contribute to this divergent outcome. Using a large panel o... Read More about The natural resource curse and fiscal decentralization.

Fiscal illusion and cyclical government expenditure: State government expenditure in the United States (2015)
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Abbott, A., & Jones, P. (2016). Fiscal illusion and cyclical government expenditure: State government expenditure in the United States. Scottish journal of political economy, 63(2), 177-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12095

© 2016 Scottish Economic Society. A well-established literature argues that fiscal illusion increases the level of government expenditure. This article focuses on the proposition that fiscal illusion also influences the cyclicality of government expe... Read More about Fiscal illusion and cyclical government expenditure: State government expenditure in the United States.

The impact of children on women’s labour supply and earnings in the UK: evidence using twin births (2015)
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Silles, M. A. (2016). The impact of children on women’s labour supply and earnings in the UK: evidence using twin births. Oxford economic papers, 68(1), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpv055

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of children on women’s labour supply and earnings for the United Kingdom. Estimating the causal relationship between family size and economic status is complicated because the same factors that... Read More about The impact of children on women’s labour supply and earnings in the UK: evidence using twin births.

Which heuristics can aid financial-decision-making? (2015)
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Forbes, W., Hudson, R., Skerratt, L., & Soufian, M. (2015). Which heuristics can aid financial-decision-making?. International review of financial analysis, 42(December), 199-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2015.07.002

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. We evaluate the contribution of Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, often in association with his late co-author Amos Tversky, to the development of our understanding of financial decision-making and the evolution of behavioural... Read More about Which heuristics can aid financial-decision-making?.

Personalisation of power, neoliberalism and the production of corruption (2015)
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Khair, A. H. A., Haniffa, R., Hudaib, M., & Karim, M. N. A. (2015). Personalisation of power, neoliberalism and the production of corruption. Accounting Forum, 39(3), 225-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2015.06.001

© 2015. This paper utilises a political lens in considering the cause for the production of corruption and the role of political leadership. Specifically, the notion of personalisation of power as advocated by Slater (2003) is adopted to portray how... Read More about Personalisation of power, neoliberalism and the production of corruption.

Identification of house price bubbles using user cost in a state space model (2015)
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Zhang, H., Hudson, R., Metcalf, H., & Manahov, V. (2015). Identification of house price bubbles using user cost in a state space model. Applied economics, 47(56), 6088-6101. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2015.1064078

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article studies how much variation in house prices results from nonfundamental factors. We propose a relative valuation approach to quantifying a bubble in housing by incorporating the housing User Cost into a state sp... Read More about Identification of house price bubbles using user cost in a state space model.

Neoclassical growth and the natural resource curse puzzle (2015)
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Guilló, M. D., & Pérez-Sebastián, F. (2015). Neoclassical growth and the natural resource curse puzzle. Journal of international economics, 97(2), 423-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.06.002

We advance a novel mechanism that helps to explain the puzzling evidence on the natural resource curse. The new channel arises in a standard dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model composed of small-open economies that take international output prices as given... Read More about Neoclassical growth and the natural resource curse puzzle.

Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: a network data envelopment analysis approach (2015)
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Duygun, M., Prior, D., Shaban, M., & Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2016). Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: a network data envelopment analysis approach. Omega, 60, 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2015.06.004

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. In recent years the European airline industry has undergone critical restructuring. It has evolved from a highly regulated market predominantly operated by national airlines to a dynamic, liberalized industry where airline firms... Read More about Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: a network data envelopment analysis approach.

The benefits of combining seasonal anomalies and technical trading rules (2015)
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Gebka, B., Hudson, R. S., & Atanasova, C. V. (2015). The benefits of combining seasonal anomalies and technical trading rules. Finance research letters, 14, 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2015.06.001

Although many seasonal anomalies and technical trading rules have been shown to have predictive ability, investigations have focused only on them operating individually. We study the benefits of trading based on combinations of three of the best know... Read More about The benefits of combining seasonal anomalies and technical trading rules.

The causal effect of schooling on smoking behavior (2015)
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Silles, M. (2015). The causal effect of schooling on smoking behavior. Economics of education review, 48, 102-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2015.06.004

This paper, using data for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, examines the hypothesis that there is a causal relationship between schooling and cigarette smoking. Compulsory schooling laws are exploited to isolate for causation. Cohorts who were tee... Read More about The causal effect of schooling on smoking behavior.