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Unemployment-inflation trade-offs in OECD countries (2016)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2016). Unemployment-inflation trade-offs in OECD countries. Economic modelling, 58, 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2016.05.007

© 2016 The Author. Inflation and unemployment reduce welfare of individuals and should be as low as possible in any economy. Cointegration and Granger causality tests suggest that there are long run relations between these two variables among the OEC... Read More about Unemployment-inflation trade-offs in OECD countries.

Market reaction to seasoned offerings in China (2016)
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Liu, J., Akbar, S., Shah, S. Z. A., Zhang, D., & Pang, D. (2016). Market reaction to seasoned offerings in China. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 43(5-6), 597-653. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12198

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This study examines stock market reaction to the announcement of various forms of seasoned issues in China. Our empirical evidence demonstrates that market reactions differ in ways that suggest a difference between mana... Read More about Market reaction to seasoned offerings in China.

The influence of industrial policy and national systems of innovation on emerging economy suppliers’ learning capability (2016)
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Khan, Z., Lew, Y. K., & Akhtar, P. (2016). The influence of industrial policy and national systems of innovation on emerging economy suppliers’ learning capability. Industry and Innovation, 23(6), 512-530. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1189811

This paper links the industrial policy and national systems of innovation literature to the investigation of learning capabilities of suppliers in the context of the automotive parts industry of Pakistan. Drawing data from 50 Pakistani autoparts supp... Read More about The influence of industrial policy and national systems of innovation on emerging economy suppliers’ learning capability.

The economic effects of the fair tax: analysis of results of a dynamic CGE model of the US economy (2016)
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Bhattarai, K., Haughton, J., & Tuerck, D. G. (2016). The economic effects of the fair tax: analysis of results of a dynamic CGE model of the US economy. International economics and economic policy : IEEP, 13(3), 451-466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10368-016-0352-4

By replacing the current income tax with a national sales tax, the FairTax proposal would end the double taxation of saving inherent in the existing tax code and, by doing so, raise output, employment, investment and capital stock relative to the ben... Read More about The economic effects of the fair tax: analysis of results of a dynamic CGE model of the US economy.

Multilevel Modeling and Policy Development: Guidelines and Applications to Medical Travel (2016)
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Garcia-Garzon, E., Zhukovsky, P., Haller, E., Plakolm, S., Fink, D., Petrova, D., Mahalingam, V., Menezes, I. G., & Ruggeri, K. (2016). Multilevel Modeling and Policy Development: Guidelines and Applications to Medical Travel. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 752. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00752

Medical travel has expanded rapidly in recent years, resulting in new markets and increased access to medical care. Whereas several studies investigated the motives of individuals seeking healthcare abroad, the conventional analytical approach is lim... Read More about Multilevel Modeling and Policy Development: Guidelines and Applications to Medical Travel.

Determinants of the informal economy of an emerging economy: a multiple indicator, multiple causes approach (2016)
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Igudia, E., Ackrill, R., Coleman, S., & Dobson, C. (2016). Determinants of the informal economy of an emerging economy: a multiple indicator, multiple causes approach. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 28(2/3), 154. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijesb.2016.076643

Positing the implementation of evidenced-based policies to manage the informal economy, our paper employs, in a novel way, the multiple-indicator, multiple-cause model and primary data, to identify the determinants of the Nigerian informal economy. B... Read More about Determinants of the informal economy of an emerging economy: a multiple indicator, multiple causes approach.

Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist (2016)
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Jin, Z., Zhou, L., & Wang, Z. (2017). Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist. Applied Economics Letters, 24(4), 258-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2016.1181826

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article empirically investigates why in a corruption-pervasive country only a minority of the firms get caught for bribery while the majority get away with it. By matching manufactu... Read More about Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist.

Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities (2016)
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Reedy, P., King, D., & Coupland, C. (2016). Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities. Organization Studies, 37(11), 1553-1573. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616641983

Organization theorists have predominantly studied identity and organizing within the managed work organization. This frames organization as a structure within which identity work occurs, often as a means of managerial control. In our paper our contri... Read More about Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities.

Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US (2016)
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Upward, R., & Wang, Z. (2016). Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US. Economics letters, 144, 71-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.04.025

We study how Chinese textile and clothing firms adjusted the product structure of their exports to the US, as triggered by the termination of Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas. We find that the removal of MFA quotas induced firms to expand their pr... Read More about Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US.

Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities (2016)
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Creazza, A., Restelli, U., Porazzi, E., Garagiola, E. R., Croce, D., Arpesella, M., Dallari, F., & Noè, C. (2016). Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities. Benchmarking, 23(4), 817-842. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-12-2013-0123

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a benchmarking framework for assessing the performance of the distribution models adopted by the local branches of National Health Services (NHSs) for delivering health technologies to patients at a l... Read More about Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities.

Carter v Boehm: facts and context (2016)
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Pearson, R. (2016). Carter v Boehm: facts and context. Insurance Law Journal -Sydney-, 27(2-3), 113-123

There is a curious irony in the lawsuit Carter v Boehm. The final decision of the Court of King’s Bench, delivered by Chief Justice Mansfield at Easter 1766, famously articulated the principle of uberrima fides (utmost good faith), which became the s... Read More about Carter v Boehm: facts and context.

Urbanization, inequality and property prices : equilibrium pricing and transaction in the Chinese housing market (2016)
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Ge, T., & Wu, T. (2017). Urbanization, inequality and property prices : equilibrium pricing and transaction in the Chinese housing market. China Economic Review, 45, 310-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2016.04.005

The particularly overheated Chinese housing market, with its soaring property prices, has attracted a large amount of research. We point out three of its striking empirical features, which current literature leaves unexplored: co-existence of steady... Read More about Urbanization, inequality and property prices : equilibrium pricing and transaction in the Chinese housing market.

Research methods in taxation history (2016)
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Frecknall-Hughes, J. (2016). Research methods in taxation history. Review of behavioral economics, 3(1), 5-20. https://doi.org/10.1561/105.00000041

This paper is an attempt to consider the research methods used in taxation history, which is an area that has attracted increased academic interest in recent years. The paper looks at the various routes that may provide an entry into studying taxatio... Read More about Research methods in taxation history.

Conception and validation of the Behavioral Intentions Scale of Organizational Citizenship (BISOC) (2016)
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Gomes Menezes, A., Menezes, I., Lozado, J., & Bastos, A. (2016). Conception and validation of the Behavioral Intentions Scale of Organizational Citizenship (BISOC). Psicologia: reflexão e crítica, 29(35), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-016-0030-z

This study aimed to construct and validate the Behavioral Intentions of Organizational Citizenship Scale (BISOC). Organizational citizenship consists of measures of voluntary behaviors, which are beneficial to organizations and are not explicit in em... Read More about Conception and validation of the Behavioral Intentions Scale of Organizational Citizenship (BISOC).

A gravity model of remittance determinants: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (2016)
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McCracken, S., Ramlogan-Dobson, C., & Stack, M. M. (2017). A gravity model of remittance determinants: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional studies, 51(5), 737-749. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2015.1133904

A gravity model of remittance determinants: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional Studies. This paper constructs a microeconomic model of the motivation for remittances and uses it to explore the macroeconomic determinants. In addit... Read More about A gravity model of remittance determinants: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean.

The governance, risk-taking, and performance of Islamic banks (2016)
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Mollah, S., Hassan, M. K., Al Farooque, O., & Mobarek, A. (2017). The governance, risk-taking, and performance of Islamic banks. Journal of Financial Services Research, 51(2), 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-016-0245-2

We examine whether the difference in governance structures influences the risk taking and performance of Islamic banks compared to conventional banks. Using a sample of 52 Islamic banks and 104 conventional banks in 14 countries for the period from 2... Read More about The governance, risk-taking, and performance of Islamic banks.

Cloud-based multi-agent architecture for effective planning and scheduling of distributed manufacturing (2016)
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Mishra, N., Singh, A., Kumari, S., Govindan, K., & Ali, S. I. (2016). Cloud-based multi-agent architecture for effective planning and scheduling of distributed manufacturing. International Journal of Production Research, 54(23), 7115-7128. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2016.1165359

In modern world, manufacturing processes have become very complex because of consistently fluctuating demand of customers. Numerous production facilities located at various geographical locations are being utilised to address the demands of their mul... Read More about Cloud-based multi-agent architecture for effective planning and scheduling of distributed manufacturing.

Non-competition covenants in acquisition deals (2016)
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Azevedo, A., Pereira, P. J., & Rodrigues, A. (2016). Non-competition covenants in acquisition deals. Economics letters, 143, 61-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.03.025

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. We study the changes in the consumers' and producers' surplus associated with acquisition deals where there is a non-competition covenant that forbids the seller from re-entering the market over a given time period. We find that... Read More about Non-competition covenants in acquisition deals.

Are mortgage lenders guilty of the housing bubble? A UK perspective (2016)
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Xiao, Q., & Devaney, S. (2016). Are mortgage lenders guilty of the housing bubble? A UK perspective. Applied economics, 48(45), 4271-4290. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1156231

Existing theoretical models of house prices and credit rely on continuous rationality of consumers, an assumption that has been frequently questioned in recent years. Meanwhile, empirical investigations of the relationship between prices and credit a... Read More about Are mortgage lenders guilty of the housing bubble? A UK perspective.

Determinants of time varying co-movements among international stock markets during crisis and non-crisis periods (2016)
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Mollah, S., Hou, A. J., Mobarek, A., & Muradoglu, G. (2016). Determinants of time varying co-movements among international stock markets during crisis and non-crisis periods. Journal of Financial Stability, 24, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2016.03.003

In this paper, we use the DCC MIDAS approach to assess the validity of the wake-up call hypothesis for developed and emerging markets during the global financial crisis (GFC). We use this approach to decompose the total correlations into short- (dail... Read More about Determinants of time varying co-movements among international stock markets during crisis and non-crisis periods.