View our archive of Bristol Centre for Economics and Finance research papers.
Working papers 2003 to present
2020
Seafood and climate change
by Eleni Papathanasopoulou
Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data
management
by Felix Ritchie and Elizabeth Green
2019
The Monetary Foundations of Britain’s Early 19th Century
Ascendency
by Carolyn Sissoko
Not Just Arms and Legs: The Impact of Student Working on Local
Labour Markets
by Damian Whittard, Hilary Drew and Felix Ritchie
Runners, repeaters, strangers and aliens: operationalising
efficient output disclosure control
by Kyle Alves and Felix Ritchie
Education and the Geography of Brexit
by Robert Calvert Jump and Jo Mitchell
Fear of Robots and Life Satisfaction
by Tim Hinks
2018
Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the new Keynesian
model
by Robert Calvert Jump, Cars Hommes and Paul Levine
DGSE models and the Lucas Critique: A historical
appraisal
by Francesco Sergi
A new approach to estimating interregional output multipliers using
input-output data for South Korean regions
by Malte Jahn, Anthony T Flegg and Timo Tohmo
Urban food security in the context of inequality and dietary
change: A study of school children in Accra
by Sara Stevano, Deborah Johnston and Emmanuel Codjoe
Pricing behavior and the role of trade openness in the transmission
of monetary shocks
by Laura Povoledo
The use of differential weighting and discounting in degree
algorithms and their impact on classification inflation and
equity
by David Allen
Unambiguous inference in sign restricted VAR models
by Robert Calvert Jump
Degree algorithms, grade inflation and equity: the UK higher
education sector
by David Allen
2017
Internal rationality, heterogeneity and complexity in the New
Keynesian model
by Cars Hommes, Robert Jump and Paul Levine
The regionalization of national input-output tables: a study of
South Korean regions
by Anthony T. Flegg and Timo Tohmo
The impact of quantitative easing on aggregate mutual fund flows in
the UK
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal
Where are the female CFOs?
by Gail Webber, Don J Webber, Dominic Page and Tim Hinks
Mental health and employment transitions: a slippery
slope
by Don J Webber, Dominic Page and Michail Veliziotis
SMEs access to formal finance in post-communist
economies: Do institutional structure and political connectedness
matter?
by Kobil Ruziev and Don J Webber
2016
Five
Safes: designing data access for research
by Tanvi Desai, Felix Ritchie and Richard Welpton
Do Shadow
banks create money? 'Financialisation' and the monetary
circuit
Jo Michell
Circular
Economy
by Peter Bradley
Higher education in Uzbekistan: reforms and the changing landscape
since independence
by Kobil Ruziev and Davron Rustamov
Refining
the application of the FLQ Formula for estimating regional input
coefficients:
an empirical study for South Korean regions
by Anthony T. Flegga and Timo Tohmob
Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to
administrative data for research?
by Felix Ritchie
A framework for understanding and designing business models for
sustainable development
by Peter Bradley, Glenn Parry and Nicholas O’Regan
Measuring compliance with minimum wages
by Felix Ritchie, Michail Veliziotis, Hilary Drew and Damian
Whittard
Can indeterminacy and self-fulfilling expectations solve the
international macro puzzles?
by Stephen McKnight and Laura Povoledo
Curriculum reform in UK economics: a critique
by Andrew Mearman, Sebastian Berger and Danielle Guizzo
2015
Principles- versus rules-based output statistical disclosure
control in remote access environments
by Felix Ritchie and Mark Elliot
Reflections on the one-minute paper
by Damian Whittard
User-focused threat identification for anonymised
microdata
by Hans-Peter Hafner, Felix Ritchie and Rainer Lenz
Can indeterminacy and self-fulfilling expectations solve the
international macro puzzles? A preliminary investigation
by Stephen McKnight and Laura Povoledo
Using CHARM to adjust for cross-hauling: the case of the Province
of Hubei, China
by Anthony T Flegg, Yongming Huang and Timo Tohmo
Effects of preferential trade agreements in the presence of zero
trade flows: the cases of China and India
by Rahul Sen, Sadhana Srivastava and Don J Webber
Evaluating the FLQ and AFLQ formulae for estimating regional input
coefficients: empirical evidence for the province of Córdoba,
Argentina
by Anthony T Flegg, Leonardo Mastronardi and Carlos Romero
Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: a Godley-Minsky
model
by Yannis Dafermos
2014
Communist party membership and bribe paying in transitional
economies
by Timothy Hinks and Artjoms Ivlevs
Happy moves? Assessing the impact of subjective well-being on the
emigration decision
by Artjoms Ivlevs
How do knowledge brokers work? The case of WERS
by Hilary Drew, Felix Ritchie and Anna King
The role of social norms in incentivising energy reduction in
organisations
by Dr Peter Bradley, Matthew Leach and Shane Fudge
Assimilation of the migrant work ethic
by Chris Dawson, Michail Veliziotis and Benjamin Hopkins
Empirical evidence on the use of the FLQ formula for regionalising
national input-output tables: The case of the Province of Córdoba,
Argentina
by Anthony T. Flegg, Leonardo J. Mastronardi and Carlos A.
Romero
Regional productivity in a multi-speed Europe
by Don J. Webber, Min Hua Jen and Eoin O’Leary
Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental
health?
by Chris Dawson, Michail Veliziotis, Gail Pacheco and Don J
Webber
Operationalising 'safe statistics': the case of linear
regression
by Felix Ritchie
Emigration, remittances and corruption experience of those staying
behind
by Artjoms Ivlevs and Roswitha M. King
Resistance to change in government: Risk, inertia and
incentives
by Felix Ritchie
Addressing the human factor in data access: Incentive
compatibility, legitimacy and cost-effectiveness in public data
resources
by Felix Ritchie and Richard Welpton
2013
Global economic crisis and corruption experience: Evidence from
transition economies
by Artjoms Ivlevs and Timothy Hinks
A two-state Markov-switching distinctive conditional variance
application for tanker freight returns
by Wessam Abouarghoub, Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter
Howells
Measuring the level of risk exposure in tanker shipping freight
markets
by Wessam Abouarghoub and Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal
'Modelling the sectoral allocation of labour in open economy
models'
by Laura Povoledo
The US Fed and the Bank of England: Ownership, structure and
‘independence’
by Peter Howells
Cross-hauling and regional input-output tables: the case of the
province of Hubei, China
by Anthony T. Flegg, Yongming Huang and Timo Tohmo
Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective
well-being
by Chris Dawson and Michail Veliziotis
Risk-taking and monetary policy before the crisis: the case of
Germany
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal
What determines students' choices of elective
modules?
by Mary R Hedges, Gail A Pacheco
and Don J Webber
How should economics curricula be
evaluated?
by Andrew Mearman
Temporary employment and wellbeing: Selection or causal?
by Chris Dawson, Don J Webber and Ben Hopkins
Trade Unions and unpaid overtime in Britain
by Michail Veliziotis
Why do students study economics?
by Andrew Mearman, Aspasia Papa and Don J. Webber
Estimating regional input coefficients and multipliers: the use of
the FLQ is not a gamble
by Anthony T. Flegg and Timo Tohmo
Liquidity and credit risks in the UK’s financial crisis: how
QE changed the
relationship
by Woon Wong, Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, Wanru Yao and Peter
Howells
2012
The impact of the quality of the work environment on employees’
intention to quit
by Ray Markey, Katherine Ravenswood and Don J. Webber
The changing influence of culture on job satisfaction across
Europe: 1981-2008
by Gail Pacheco, De Wet van der Westhuizen and Don J. Webber
Understanding student attendance in Business Schools: An
exploratory study
by Andrew Mearman, Don J. Webber, Artjoms Ivlevs, Tanzila Rahman
and Gail Pacheco
What is a manufacturing job?
by Felix Ritchie, Andrew D. Thomas, and Richard Welpton
Rethinking economics: Logical gaps – empirical to the real
world
by Stuart Birks
Rethinking economics: Logical gaps – theory to empirical
by Stuart Birks
Rethinking economics: Economics as a toolkit
by Stuart Birks
Rethinking economics: Downs with traction
by Stuart Birks
Rethinking economics: Theory as rhetoric
by Stuart Birks
An economics angle on the law
by Stuart Birks
Temporary versus permanent employment: Does health
matter?
by Gail Pacheco, Dominic Page and Don J. Webber
Issues in the measurement of low pay: 2010
by Suzanne Fry and Felix Ritchie
Output-based disclosure control for regressions
by Felix Ritchie
Sample selection and bribing behaviour
by Timothy Hinks and Artjoms Ivlevs
Internet shopping and Internet banking in sequence
by Athanasios G. Patsiotis, Tim Hughes and Don J Webber
Mental and physical health: Reconceptualising the relationship with
employment propensity
by Gail Pacheco, Dom Page and Don J Webber
Using student evaluations to improve individual and department
teaching qualities
by Mary R Hedges and Don J Webber
The effects of the 2004 Minority Education Reform on pupils'
performance in Latvia
by Artjoms Ivļevs and M. King, Østfo
Pluralist economics curricula: do they work; and how would we
know?
by Andrew Mearman
Fractionalization and Well-Being: Evidence from a new South African
data set
by Timothy Hinks
The role of structural change in European regional productivity
growth
by Eoin O’Leary and Don J. Webber
2011
Trusting neighbours or strangers in a racially divided society:
Insights from survey data in South Africa
by Dorrit Posel and Tim Hinks
A comment on Tobias Kronenberg's "Construction of regional
input-output tables using nonsurvey methods: The role of
cross-hauling"
by Anthony T. Flegg and Timo Tohmo
Measuring the policymaker's credibility: The Bank of England in
'nice' and 'not-so-nice' times
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, Woon Wong and Peter Howells
Paradigm shift? A critique of the IMF's new approach to
capital controls
by Daniela Gabor
Happiness, meaning of life and income
by Lois Duff and Dr Artjoms Ivlevs
The effect of monetary policy on investors’ risk perception:
Evidence from the UK and Germany
by Dan Luo and Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter
Howells
Military Keynesianism: An assessment
by J Paul Dunne
Military Spending, Growth, Development and Conflict
by J Paul Dunne
The changing military industrial complex
by J Paul Dunne and Elisabeth Skons
Corruption, military spending and growth
by Giorgio d'Agostino, Luca Pieroni and J Paul Dunne
Defence spending and economic growth in the EU15
by J Paul Dunne and Eftychia Nikolaidou
Australasian money demand stability:Application of structural break
tests
by Don J. Webber and Saten Kumar
2010
Smoking Behaviour and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the UK
Smoking Ban
by Timothy Hinks and Andreas Katsaros and Andreas Katsaros
From immigrants to (non-)citizens: Political economy of
naturalizations in Latvia
by Artjoms Ivlevs and Roswitha M. King
Recent Developments in Monetary Policy
by Peter Howells and Iris Biefang Frisancho-Mariscal
Interest rate pass-through and risk
by Iris Biefang Frisancho-Mariscal and Peter Howells
Money demand stability: A case study of Nigeria
by Saten Kumar and Don J. Webber and Scott Fargher
Participatory
decision making and job satisfaction
co-authored by Gail Pacheco and Don Webber
The effects of privatisation and FDI on economic growth in
Argentina
by Rania Ihab Naguib
Assessing the Effects of Military Expenditure on Growth
by Giorgio d'Agostino and Luca Pieroni and J Paul
Dunne
On the Cost of Violence and the Benefits of Peace
by Jurgen Brauer and J Paul Dunne
Culture, participative decision making and job
satisfaction
by De Wet van der Westhuizen and Gail Pacheco and Don J.
Webber
Grade surprise and choice at 16
by Don J. Webber
Getting people out of unemployment: A spatial perspective across
Auckland
by Don J. Webber and Gail Pacheco
Military Expenditure and Granger Causality: A Critical
Review
by J Paul Dunne and Ron P. Smith
What is this thing called ‘heterodox economics’?
by Andrew Mearman
Regional Input-Output Tables and the FLQ Formula: A Case Study of
Finland (revised)
by Tony Flegg and T. Tohmo
Sub-national vulnerability measures:A spatial perspective
by Don J. Webber and Stephanié Rossouw
Macroeconomics and Violence
by Jurgen Brauer and J Paul Dunne
Kosovo - winning its independence but losing its people? Recent
evidence on emigration intentions and preparedness to
migrate
by Artjoms Ivlevs and Roswitha M. King
The Demand for Military Spending in Egypt
by Aamer S. Abu-Qarn and J Paul Dunne and Yasmine M. Abdelfattah
and Shadwa Zaher
2009
Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in
Australia
by Saten Kumar, Don J. Webber and Geoff Perry
Estimating the effect of state dependence in work-related training
participation among British employees
by Panos Sousounis
The Impact of Work-Related Training on Employee Earnings: Evidence
from Great Britain
by Panos Sousounis
Persistence in the determination of work-related training
participation: evidence from the BHPS,
1991-1997
by Panos Sousounis, Robin Bladen-Hovell
Wagner’s Law Revisited: Cointegration and Causality tests for New
Zealand
by Saten Kumar, Don Webber and Scott Fargher
Does pluralism in economics education make better educated, happier
students? A qualitative analysis
by Andrew Mearman, Tim Wakeley, Gamila Shoib and Don Webber
Who do heterodox economists think they are?
by Andrew Mearman
Students’ perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further
study
by Don J. Webber and Andrew Mearman
Microeconomic foundations of geographical variations in labour
productivity
by Don J. Webber and Michael Horswell
Winners and Losers: Spatial variations in labour productivity in
England and Wales
by Don J. Webber and Michael Horswell
Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for
Australia
by Saten Kumar, Scott Fargher and Don J. Webber
Arms Trade Offsets: What do We Know?
by Jurgen Brauer and J. Paul Dunne
Credit Ratings and UK Defined Benefit Pension Fund Portfolio
Values
by Martin Sullivan
Independent Central Banks: Some theoretical and empirical
problems
by Peter Howells
The Military Industrial Complex
by J Paul Dunne, Elisabeth Sköns
The Volatility of the Tradeable and Nontradeable Sectors: Theory
and Evidence
by Laura Povoledo
Banking Sector Performance in Latin America: Market Power versus
Efficiency
by Georgios E. Chortareas, Jesus G. Garza-Garcia, Claudia
Girardone
The Money Supply in Macroeconomics
by Peter Howells
Optimal Military Spending in the US: A Time Series
Analysis
by d.Agostino G., Dunne J. P., Pieroni L.
Defence Spending and Development
by J Paul Dunne and Mehmet Uye
Determining Military Expenditures: Arms Races and Spill-Over
Effects in Cross-Section and Panel Data
by J Paul Dunne, Sam Perlo-Freeman and Ron P Smith
2008
Cointegration Rank Test and Long Run Specification: A Note on The
Robustness of Structural Demand Systems
by D. Aristei and L. Pieroni
Regional Input−Output Models and the FLQ Formula: A Case Study of
Finland
by A.T. Flegg and T. Tohmo
A statistical development of fixed odds betting rules in
soccer
by Ian Milliner, Paul White and Don J. Webber
Economic performance in rural England
by Nigel Curry and Don J. Webber
Productivity and Proximity
by Don J. Webber and Paul White
Can We Declare Military Keynesianism Dead?
by Luca Pieronia Giorgio d’Agostinob Marco Lorussoc
Peace, War and International Security: Economic Theories
by Paul Dunne, Fanny Coulomb
Rhetorical Dualism and the Orthodox/Heterodox Distinction in
Economics
by Andrew Mearman
Modelling structural change using broken sticks
by Paul White, Don J. Webber and Angela Helvin
2007
Voting patterns, party spending and space in England and
Wales
by David Cutts and Don J. Webber
Military Expenditure and Economic Growth
by Luca Pieroni
The Demand for Military Expenditure in Developing Countries:
Hostility versus Capability
by J Paul Dunne, Sam Perlo-Freeman, Ron P Smith
Basic Needs, Government Debt and Economic Growth
by Samuel Perlo-Freeman and Don J. Webber
How Strong is the Relationship between Defence Expenditure and
Private Consumption? Evidence from the United States
by Luca Pieroni
Central bank communication, transparency and interest rate
volatility: Evidence from the USA
byIris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
On some slippery slopes: horizontalists, structuralists and
diagrams
by Peter Howells
Congestion in the Chinese automobile and textile industries
revisited
by A.T. Flegg and D.O. Allen
The Demand for Endogenous Money: a Lesson in Institutional
Change
by Peter Howells
2006
Does it matter how we measure congestion?
by A.T. Flegg, D.O. Allen
Monetary Policy Uncertainty: Is There a Difference Between Bank of
England and the Bundesbank/ECB?
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
Attendance and Exam Performance at University
by David O. Allen and Don J. Webber
Country-level Business Performance and Policy Asymmetries in Great
Britain
by Anthony Plumridge, Don J. Webber, Martin Boddy and John
Hudson
Are the New British Universities Congested?
by A.T. Flegg and D.O. Allen
The Topology of Conflict and Co-operation
by Sam Perlo-Freeman
Who Stopped Flying Around September 11th?
Measuring Poverty/Health: A Cautionary Note
by Yarim Shamsan, Don J Webber, and Paul White
An Examination of Alternative Approaches to Measuring Congestion in
British Universities (2006)
by A.T. Flegg and D.O. Allen
Does Expansion Cause Congestion? The Case of the Older British
Universities, 1994 to 2004
by A.T. Flegg and D.O. Allen
Why Do Foreign Firms Invest in South West England?
by Damian N. Whittard and Don J. Webber
Rising Stars, Superstars and Dying Stars: Hedonic Explorations of
Autograph Prices
by Alan Collins, Richard O’Doherty, Martin C. Snell
Trade, Technology and Employment: A Case Study of South
Africa
by Paul Dunne, Lawrence Edwards
Monetary Policy Transparency in the UK: The Impact of Independence
and Inflation Targeting
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
2005
Regional Productivity Differentials: Explaining the Gap
by Martin Boddy, John Hudson, Anthony Plumridge and Don J.
Webber
Transformation or Stagnation? The South African Defence Industry in
the early 21st Century
by J. Paul Dunne and Richard Haines
The Endogeneity of Money: Empirical Evidence
by Peter Howells
Monetary Policy Regimes: a fragile consensus
by Peter Howells and Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal
Manufacturing Growth, Technological Progress, and Military
Expenditure
by Paul Dunne and Duncan Watson
Military Spending and Economic Growth in Greece, Portugal and
Spain
by J Paul Dunne and Eftychia Nikolaidou
The Demand for Food in South Africa
by Paul Dunne
Monetary Policy Transparency and Uncertainty: A Comparison between
the Bank of England and the Bundesbank/ECB
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
What Lies Beneath? Who Owns British Defence Contractors and Does It
Matter?
by Derek Braddon and Jonathan Bradley
Revolution in the Defence Electronics Market? An Economic Analysis
of Sectoral Change
by Paul Dowdall and Derek Braddon
Methodological Triangulation at the Bank of England: An
Investigation
by Paul Downward and Andrew Mearman
Arms Trade Offsets and Development
by Jurgen Brauer and J. Paul Dunne
Aerospace Competitiveness: UK, US and Europe
by Derek Braddon and Keith Hartley
Convergence towards a Steady State Distribution
by Don J. Webber and Paul White
Student Participation in Sporting Activities
by Don J. Webber and Andrew Mearman
2004
Monetary Policy Transparency: Lessons from Germany and the
Eurozone
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
Concordant Convergence Empirics
by Don J Webber and Paul White
Models of Military Expenditure and Growth: A Critical
Review
by J Paul Dunne, Ron Smith, Dirk Willenbockel
An Examination of Alternative Approaches to Measuring Congestion in
British Universities
by A.T. Flegg and D.O. Allen
Environmental Kuznets Curves: Mess or Meaning?
by Don J. Webber and Dave O. Allen
Monetary Policy Transparency: Too Good to be True?
by Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
Convergence across Spanish Provinces: Cross-section and Pairwise
Evidence
by Don J. Webber, Paul White, Asier Minondo and David O. Allen
Gender Specific Peer Groups and Choice at Sixteen
by Don J. Webber
‘Open Systems’ and Economic Methodology
by Andrew Mearman,
Critical Realism in Economics and Open-Systems Ontology: A
Critique
by Andrew Mearman
2003
Church Organists: Analysing Their Willingness to Play
by Don J. Webber and Martin Freke
Reflections on Curriculum Development by a New Academic
by Don J. Webber
Military Expenditure and Debt In South America
by J Paul Dunne
Military Expenditure and Debt In Small Industrialised Economies: A
Panel Analysis
by J Paul Dunne
Central Bank Transparency: a market indicator
by Peter Howells and Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal
Measuring the Efficiency and Productivity of British Universities:
An Application of DEA and the Malmquist Approach
by A.T. Flegg, D.O. Allen, K. Field & T.W. Thurlow
Who Uses External Business Advice? A Multivariate Probit Analysis
with Sector Effects
by Steve Johnson, Wayne Thomas and Don J. Webber
Endogenous Growth Models and Stock Market Development: Evidence
from Four Countries
by Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Peter G. A Howells, Alaa M.
Soliman
Concentration in the International Arms Industry
by J. Paul Dunne, Maria Garcia-Alonso, Paul Levine, Ron Smith