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Is investor sentiment contagious? International sentiment and UK equity returns (2015)
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Hudson, Y., & Green, C. J. (2015). Is investor sentiment contagious? International sentiment and UK equity returns. Journal of behavioral and experimental finance, 5, 46-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2015.02.004

This paper contributes to a growing body of literature studying investor sentiment. Separate sentiment measures for UK investors and UK institutional investors are constructed from commonly cited sentiment indicators using the first principle compone... Read More about Is investor sentiment contagious? International sentiment and UK equity returns.

Does B2C online logistics service quality impact urban logistics? (2015)
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Grant, D. B., & Philipp, B. (2015). Does B2C online logistics service quality impact urban logistics?. Logistique & management, 23(2), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/12507970.2015.11673823

This paper reports on an in-progress research study regarding the impact of business to consumer (B2C) online logistics service quality (OLSQ) for shopper satisfaction and loyalty on urban logistics across the UK, France and Germany to also investiga... Read More about Does B2C online logistics service quality impact urban logistics?.

Parental expectations and school enrolment decisions: Evidence from rural Ghana (2015)
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Ahiakpor, F., & Swaray, R. (2015). Parental expectations and school enrolment decisions: Evidence from rural Ghana. Review of development economics, 19(1), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12122

We use field data to investigate factors which influence parents’ decision to enrol children in schools in rural Ghana. The empirical results identified a host of socio-economic and household-level factors including remittances parents expect from in... Read More about Parental expectations and school enrolment decisions: Evidence from rural Ghana.

Financial deepening and economic growth in advanced and emerging economies (2015)
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Bhattarai, K. (2015). Financial deepening and economic growth in advanced and emerging economies. Review of development economics, 19(1), 178-195. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12133

While over-…financing caused crises and slow growth in advanced economies including Germany, France and the UK after 2008, more prudent …financial deepening sustained higher economic growth in China and India - two major emerging economies in the wor... Read More about Financial deepening and economic growth in advanced and emerging economies.

Market failure, government inefficiency, and optimal R&D policy (2015)
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Perez-Sebastian, F. (2015). Market failure, government inefficiency, and optimal R&D policy. Economics letters, 128, 43-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.01.012

This paper presents a growth model that can explain the coexistence of intellectual property rights and R&D subsidies as a response to the presence of both market and government failures. The framework can also generate the observed positive correlat... Read More about Market failure, government inefficiency, and optimal R&D policy.

Testing of a market fraction model and power-law behaviour in the DAX 30 (2015)
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He, X. Z., & Li, Y. (2015). Testing of a market fraction model and power-law behaviour in the DAX 30. Journal of Empirical Finance, 31, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2015.01.001

This paper tests a simple market fraction asset pricing model with heterogeneous agents. By selecting a set of structural parameters of the model through a systematic procedure, we show that the autocorrelations (of returns, absolute returns and squa... Read More about Testing of a market fraction model and power-law behaviour in the DAX 30.

The implementation of supply chain management theory in practice: An empirical investigation (2015)
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Sweeney, E., Grant, D. B., & Mangan, D. J. (2015). The implementation of supply chain management theory in practice: An empirical investigation. Supply chain management, 20(1), 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-07-2014-0249

Purpose – The purpose of the research described in this paper is to disentangle the rhetoric from the reality in relation to supply chain management (SCM) adoption in practice. There is significant evidence of a divergence between theory and practice... Read More about The implementation of supply chain management theory in practice: An empirical investigation.