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League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010? (2019)
Journal Article
Nolan, M. A., Reynolds, M., & Trotter, S. (2020). League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010?. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 13(1), 257-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09302-w

This paper seeks to provide further evidence about ‘league table’ orderings for deprivation in local areas, especially for two domains – employment and education – which seem likely to be closely related. Rather than relying solely on administrative... Read More about League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010?.

Ethical pathways of internal audit reporting lines (2019)
Journal Article
Rodgers, W., & Al Fayi, S. (2019). Ethical pathways of internal audit reporting lines. Accounting Forum, 43(2), 220-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2019.1605871

This study identifies the ethical pathways of chief audit executive reporting lines that describe internal auditing relationships with different authorities in the organisation (e.g., the board of directors, audit committee, chief executive officer,... Read More about Ethical pathways of internal audit reporting lines.

Big data-savvy teams’ skills, big data-driven actions and business performance (2019)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., Frynas, J. G., Mellahi, K., & Ullah, S. (2019). Big data-savvy teams’ skills, big data-driven actions and business performance. British Journal of Management, 30(2), 252-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12333

Prior studies on big data analytics have emphasized the importance of specific big data skills and capabilities for organizational success; however, they have largely neglected to investigate the use of cross-functional teams' skills and its links to... Read More about Big data-savvy teams’ skills, big data-driven actions and business performance.

Can urban coffee consumption help predict US inflation? (2019)
Journal Article
Salisu, A. A., Swaray, R., & Adediran, I. A. (2019). Can urban coffee consumption help predict US inflation?. Journal of forecasting, 38(7), 649-668. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2589

Motivated by the importance of coffee to Americans and the significance of the coffee subsector to the US economy, we pursue three notable innovations. First, we augment the traditional Phillips curve model with the coffee price as a predictor, and s... Read More about Can urban coffee consumption help predict US inflation?.

Trade credit, firm profitability, and financial constraints: Evidence from listed SMEs in East Asia and the Pacific (2019)
Journal Article
Hoang, C. H., Xiao, Q., & Akbar, S. (2019). Trade credit, firm profitability, and financial constraints: Evidence from listed SMEs in East Asia and the Pacific. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 15(5), 744-770. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMF-09-2018-0258

The principal objective of this study is to investigate the non-linear association between trade credit and profitability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, this paper analyses whether the above relationship varies according to financi... Read More about Trade credit, firm profitability, and financial constraints: Evidence from listed SMEs in East Asia and the Pacific.

Environmental or sustainable supply chain performance measurement standards and certifications (2019)
Book Chapter
Grant, D. B., & Shaw, S. (2019). Environmental or sustainable supply chain performance measurement standards and certifications. In J. Sarkis (Ed.), Handbook on the sustainable supply chain (357-376). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434272.00024

Organizations are looking to adopt environmental or sustainable performance management standards and certifications for their supply chains to satisfy stakeholder concerns and to respond to increasing awareness and interest in sustainability. However... Read More about Environmental or sustainable supply chain performance measurement standards and certifications.

Executive compensation, sustainability, climate, environmental concerns, and company financial performance: evidence from indonesian commercial banks (2019)
Journal Article
Kartadjumena, E., & Rodgers, W. (2019). Executive compensation, sustainability, climate, environmental concerns, and company financial performance: evidence from indonesian commercial banks. Accounting and business research, 11(6), Article 1673. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061673

This research investigates whether executive compensation is designed to motivate managers to pursue corporate sustainability (CS) concerns as measured by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 3.1 disclosure indicators in Indonesian listed commercial ban... Read More about Executive compensation, sustainability, climate, environmental concerns, and company financial performance: evidence from indonesian commercial banks.

Is there still a weather anomaly? An investigation of stock and foreign exchange markets (2019)
Journal Article
Andrikopoulos, A., Wang, C., & Zheng, M. (2019). Is there still a weather anomaly? An investigation of stock and foreign exchange markets. Finance research letters, 30, 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.03.026

Since Saunders (1993), there has been ongoing research on whether the weather can affect asset prices. Our study of the impact of weather on stock and foreign exchange (henceforth FX) markets shows that the weather has no effect during 2002–2018, sug... Read More about Is there still a weather anomaly? An investigation of stock and foreign exchange markets.

Trusting/distrusting auditors' opinion (2019)
Journal Article
Rodgers, W., Guiral, A., & Gonzalo, J. A. (2019). Trusting/distrusting auditors' opinion. Accounting and business research, 11(6), Article 1666. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061666

Trust relations are essential for effective interchanges in the financial markets. Investors 9 (trustors), as well as other market participants, can only trust financial markets if they trust their 10 auditors (trustees). Especially, auditors' assess... Read More about Trusting/distrusting auditors' opinion.

Bottom-up sentiment and return predictability of the market portfolio (2019)
Journal Article
Guo, J., Li, Y., & Zheng, M. (2019). Bottom-up sentiment and return predictability of the market portfolio. Finance research letters, 29, 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.03.008

This paper provides strong evidence that market sentiment measured bottom-up from individual-stock sentiment is negatively related to future long-term market returns and is positively correlated with contemporaneous returns.

Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries (2019)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Adams, K., Ullah, S., & Ullah, F. (2019). Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries. Resources policy, 61, 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.02.009

Motivated by recent inconclusive debates on the natural resource ‘curse’ phenomenon, this paper reviews studies that have explored the causes and implications of natural resource endowments ‘curse’ within oil-rich developing countries (ODCs). Most of... Read More about Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries.

Hide-and-Seek in Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Negative Corporate Incidents (2019)
Journal Article
Rudkin, B., Kimani, D., Ullah, S., Ahmed, R., & Farooq, S. (2019). Hide-and-Seek in Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Negative Corporate Incidents. Corporate governance, 19(1), 158-175. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-05-2018-0164

Purpose: This paper scrutinizes the legitimacy tactics employed in the annual reports of UK listed companies after their major corporate scandals.

Design/methodology/approach: For a sample consisted of 19 companies that are involved in corporate s... Read More about Hide-and-Seek in Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Negative Corporate Incidents.

Improving the predictability of the oil–US stock nexus: The role of macroeconomic variables (2019)
Journal Article
Salisu, A. A., Swaray, R., & Oloko, T. F. (2019). Improving the predictability of the oil–US stock nexus: The role of macroeconomic variables. Economic modelling, 76, 153-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.07.029

In this study, we revisit the oil–stock nexus by accounting for the role of macroeconomic variables and testing their in-sample and out-of-sample predictive powers. We follow the approaches of Lewellen (2004) and Westerlund and Narayan (2015), which... Read More about Improving the predictability of the oil–US stock nexus: The role of macroeconomic variables.

Games of Two Halves: Non-Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Defection and the Prisoner's Dilemma (2018)
Journal Article
Dobson, S., & Goddard, J. (2018). Games of Two Halves: Non-Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Defection and the Prisoner's Dilemma. Review of Economic Analysis : REA Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, 10(3), 285-312

We develop a stylized two-period game-theoretic model of the strategic choices made by soccer teams when selecting between defensive and attacking team formations, and between non-violent and violent styles of play. Cooperative behaviour during the e... Read More about Games of Two Halves: Non-Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Defection and the Prisoner's Dilemma.

A reliability model for assessing corporate governance using machine learning techniques (2018)
Journal Article
Hernandez-Perdomo, E., Guney, Y., & Rocco, C. M. (2019). A reliability model for assessing corporate governance using machine learning techniques. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 185, 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.12.027

Corporate governance assesses the efficiency and effectiveness of companies’ operations and decisions to ensure value creation for shareholders and optimal risk taking. As investors’ decision making process largely depends on financial information an... Read More about A reliability model for assessing corporate governance using machine learning techniques.

An empirical analysis of the Taylor rule and its application to monetary policy: a case for the United Kingdom and Euro area (2018)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., & Carter, M. (in press). An empirical analysis of the Taylor rule and its application to monetary policy: a case for the United Kingdom and Euro area. Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research, 5(2), 173-182. https://doi.org/10.20448/journal.501.2018.52.173.182

This paper analyses the Taylor rule and its application to monetary policy in the United Kingdom and Euro area. The analysis uses a linear regression on quarterly economic data from 1993Q1 to 2017Q4 for the United Kingdom and 2000Q1 to 2016Q4 for the... Read More about An empirical analysis of the Taylor rule and its application to monetary policy: a case for the United Kingdom and Euro area.

The labour market consequences of teenage childbearing (2018)
Journal Article
Silles, M. A. (2019). The labour market consequences of teenage childbearing. Contemporary Economic Policy, 37(4), 694-713. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12417

This paper provides estimates of the impact of an unanticipated child during adolescence on labour supply and earnings using data for women who gave birth between 1976 and 2015 drawn from the 1990 and 2000 censuses and the American Community Surveys.... Read More about The labour market consequences of teenage childbearing.

Heterogeneous agent models in financial markets: A nonlinear dynamics approach (2018)
Journal Article
He, X. Z., Li, Y., & Zheng, M. (2019). Heterogeneous agent models in financial markets: A nonlinear dynamics approach. International review of financial analysis, 62, 135-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.11.016

Studies on financial markets have accumulated consistent evidences of stylized facts and anomalies, which can be characterized by stochastic switching among different co-existing market states but yet difficult to reconcile with traditionally rationa... Read More about Heterogeneous agent models in financial markets: A nonlinear dynamics approach.

ISO 9000, activity based costing and organizational performance (2018)
Journal Article
Vetchagool, W., Augustyn, M. M., & Tayles, M. (in press). ISO 9000, activity based costing and organizational performance. Total quality management & business excellence, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2018.1549938

This study investigates the potential complementarity between ISO 9000 and Activity Based Costing (ABC). This is undertaken by examining associations between the extent of ISO 9000 implementation and the extent of ABC use and by examining the impact... Read More about ISO 9000, activity based costing and organizational performance.

A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China (2018)
Journal Article
Gao, Y., Xiong, X., Feng, X., Li, Y., & Vigne, S. A. (2019). A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China. Finance research letters, 29, 411-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.11.009

In this paper, we propose a new direct proxy for investors' attention in the Chinese stock market: daily abnormal reading quantity of each stock's posts on the Eastmoney guba website. Using A-shares samples of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we find tha... Read More about A new attention proxy and order imbalance: Evidence from China.