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Audit committee disclosure tone and earnings management (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Shaer, H., & Zaman, M. (in press). Audit committee disclosure tone and earnings management. Journal of applied accounting research, https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-12-2020-0243

Purpose: This paper examines the effect of audit committee (AC) reporting, measured by the tone of audit committee disclosures, in improving financial reporting quality as proxied by earnings management. Design/methodology/approach: The authors focus... Read More about Audit committee disclosure tone and earnings management.

The role of hedge funds in the asset pricing: evidence from China (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Zhang, W., Li, Y., & Feng, X. (in press). The role of hedge funds in the asset pricing: evidence from China. The European journal of finance, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1929373

We document that hedge funds nurture mispricing in the Chinese financial market. We examine the relationship between hedge fund holdings and the degree of mispricing, assuming that hedge funds’ stock holdings are mainly for arbitrage and not for hedg... Read More about The role of hedge funds in the asset pricing: evidence from China.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management Performance Measures (2021)
Book Chapter
Grant, D. B., & Shaw, S. (2021). Logistics and Supply Chain Management Performance Measures. In R. Vickerman (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Transportation (volume 3) (16-23). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102671-7.10210-6

Performance measures are a set of metrics used to quantify the efficiency and/or effectiveness of an organizational action and are especially important in a supply chain management context where such measures are typically quantitative and relate to... Read More about Logistics and Supply Chain Management Performance Measures.

Income Status and Life Satisfaction (2021)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2021). Income Status and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23, 233–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00397-y

The importance of both income rank and relative income, as indicators of status, has long been recognised in the literature on life satisfaction and happiness. Recently, several authors have made explicit comparisons of the relative importance of the... Read More about Income Status and Life Satisfaction.

Nonlinearity everywhere: implications for empirical finance, technical analysis and value at risk (2021)
Journal Article
Amini, S., Hudson, R., Urquhart, A., & Wang, J. (in press). Nonlinearity everywhere: implications for empirical finance, technical analysis and value at risk. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1900888

We show that expected returns on US stocks and all major global stock market indices have a particular form of non-linear dependence on previous returns. The expected sign of returns tends to reverse after large price movements and trends tend to con... Read More about Nonlinearity everywhere: implications for empirical finance, technical analysis and value at risk.

Investigating the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in UK agro-ecosystems: An application of the DPSIR framework (2021)
Journal Article
Moss, E. D., Evans, D. M., & Atkins, J. P. (2021). Investigating the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in UK agro-ecosystems: An application of the DPSIR framework. Land use policy, 105, Article 105394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105394

Understanding how climate change will affect agro-ecosystems and the ecosystem services they provide is a significant global challenge. Investigating this topic requires a holistic approach that can capture the complexity of agro-ecosystems and asses... Read More about Investigating the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in UK agro-ecosystems: An application of the DPSIR framework.

Behavioural Framework for Managing Conflicts of Interest in Professional Accounting Firms (2021)
Journal Article
Ishaque, M., Attah-Boakye, R., & Yusuf, F. (in press). Behavioural Framework for Managing Conflicts of Interest in Professional Accounting Firms. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12490

This paper proposes a behavioural framework to complement professional accounting firms’ measures for managing conflicts of interest. Following an empirical examination of the process through which conflicts of interest affect accounting professional... Read More about Behavioural Framework for Managing Conflicts of Interest in Professional Accounting Firms.

India Led Growth in South Asia: Empirical Analyses (2021)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2021). India Led Growth in South Asia: Empirical Analyses. Journal of Development Economics and Finance, 1(2), 401-415

Strategic lessons are drown based on Ramsey model of growth for the South Asia region and empirical panel data analysis on the determinates of growth in it. Given its size of population this region should push for growth and increase its share of glo... Read More about India Led Growth in South Asia: Empirical Analyses.

Was a deterioration in ‘connectedness’ a leading indicator of the European sovereign debt crisis? (2021)
Journal Article
Hamill, P. A., Li, Y., Pantelous, A., Vigne, S. A., & Waterworth, J. (2021). Was a deterioration in ‘connectedness’ a leading indicator of the European sovereign debt crisis?. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Article 101300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2021.101300

This paper investigates network connectedness of European sovereign bond markets from 2005 to 2011. To overcome weaknesses in alternative methodologies to estimate network connectedness we adopt the unified methodology recommended by Diebold and Yilm... Read More about Was a deterioration in ‘connectedness’ a leading indicator of the European sovereign debt crisis?.