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Tail Risk Connectedness Between US Industries
(Article)We use the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) quantile regression technique to construct and analyse the complete tail risk connectedness network of the whole US industry system. We also investigate ... -
Tax compliance cost and international trade in Africa
(Conference)International trade in Africa could be one of the antidotes to the precarious poverty and economic deficiency in which the continent finds itself. An outward orientation towards international trade opens the continent to ... -
Technological progress, non-price factors competitiveness, and changes in trade income elasticities: empirical evidence from South Korea and Hong Kong
(Article)In the balance-of-payments-constrained growth model literature, income elasticities (IEs) are considered as the crucial element determining a country’s long-run growth rate. Although the extant literature accepts that ... -
Too Big to Ignore? Hedge Fund Flows and Bond Yields
(Article)This paper investigates the information content of aggregate hedge fund flow and its predictive power with respect to bond yields. Using a sample of 9725 hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, we find that fund flow is negatively ... -
Towards Sustainable Development in the Arab Middle East and North Africa Region: A Longitudinal Analysis of Environmental Disclosure in Corporate Annual Reports
(Article)This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of corporate environmental disclosure (CED) in the Arab MENA region. Using a detailed research instrument containing 55 items, content analysis of the annual reports of ... -
Trustee board diversity, governance mechanisms, capital structure and performance in SMEs: The case of UK Charities
(Article)Purpose: This paper examines the extent to which corporate board characteristics influence the level of dividend pay-out ratio using a sample of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 2010 to 2013 listed on the ... -
UK Preferential International Trade after 23 June 2016
(Conference)Now the situation is changing as the UK has voted to come out of the EU on the 23 June 2016. So how is this going to affect the UK importers? UK Importers are concerned if trade agreements and preference agreements can ... -
UK Short Selling Activity and Firm Performance
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Ukrainian Financial Forum - Neil Lancastle, economist, De Montfort University
(Video)Ukraine's position in the global economy: key macroeconomic risk and challenges. -
An Unreliable Canary: Insider Trading, the Cash Flow Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis’
(Article)This paper investigates whether measures of aggregated insider trading could have predicted the wider economic change that occurred in the UK around the time of the financial crisis. Seyhun's (1988, 1992) cash flow ... -
User Adaptation in Supporting Exploration Tasks in VLEs
(Book chapter)In the increasing heterogeneous student population in both the academic and corporate training environments, the need of a customized instructional design is becoming more and more obvious. There are a variety of factors, ...