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Can Banks Individually Create Money Out of Nothing? – The Theories and the Empirical Evidence
(Article)This paper presents the first empirical evidence in the history of banking on the question of whether banks can create money out of nothing. The banking crisis has revived interest in this issue, but it had remained ... -
Can dialogue help to improve feedback on examinations?
(Article)Student dissatisfaction with feedback is widely acknowledged in Higher Education. This has resulted in investigations that have offered suggestions for improving student satisfaction levels. This article examines one area ... -
Can the news tell us anything about uncertainty that the markets don’t?
(Working Paper)This study investigates the dynamic interactions between changes in economic policy uncertainty and movement in price and trade volumes across a sample of 21 countries. Within a vector autoregressive framework, we find ... -
Capital Structure of Chinese Listed SMEs: An Agency Theory Perspective
(Article)Prior work examining the antecedents of capital structure for small and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets is limited. This paper sheds some light on how the corporate governance mechanisms adopted by firms ... -
Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure?
(Article)We investigate firm-level determinants of capital structure using a large sample of 4,284 Japanese firms over a nineteen-year period (i.e., over 61,000 firm-year observations), a hitherto less examined sample for this ... -
Capital structure, product market competition and firm performance: Evidence from South Africa
(Article)This paper investigates the relationship between capital structure and firm performance, paying particular attention to the degree of industry competition. The paper applies a novel measure of competition, the Boone ... -
Capturing the Participants Voice: Using Causal Mapping supported by Group Decision Software to enhance Procedural Justice
(Conference)This paper examines the way in which causal mapping, aided by group decision software, adheres to the tenets of procedural justice. Causal mapping workshops utilise a dual facilitation process that enables the participants’ ... -
Carbon efficiency evaluation: An analytical framework using fuzzy DEA
(Article)Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a powerful analytical technique for measuring the relative efficiency of alternatives based on their inputs and outputs. The alternatives can be in the form of countries who attempt to ... -
Care and the Vote
(Conference)The right to vote is seen as a pillar of modern democracies and a component of a ‘good life’ of social participation. In the UK that right is extended to all adults unless they have been convicted of an offence in perverting ... -
Causal flows between oil and forex markets using high-frequency data: Asymmetries from good and bad volatility
(Article)This paper investigates the causal linkages in volatility between crude oil prices and six major bilateral exchange rates against the U.S. dollar in the time-frequency space using high-frequency intraday data. Special ... -
Causal Relationship between Apparel Exports and Macro-economic Factors
(Article)Apparel exports make a significant contribution to economic growth in major apparel exporting economies such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between apparel ...