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An Analysis of Initial Public Offering Mechanisms
There is a hot debate on the advantages of different initial public offerings (IPOs) mechanisms. In her PhD thesis, the award holder examined two different mechanisms used for... -
OECD Foreign Direct Investment, 2005-2020
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a category of cross-border investment in which an investor resident... -
Money burning, envy and development: An experimental case study in Ethiopia
Research in social sciences has increasingly highlighted the importance of envy and related social preferences (such as fairness, reciprocity and inequality aversion) in... -
New methods for forecasting inflation and its sub-components: Applications to...
The aim is to forecast the chief components of inflation (such as changes in fuel prices, food prices and prices of durable goods) for the USA, UK and South Africa, and to test... -
Understanding focal points in bargaining situations: an experimental investig...
The main objective of this research project is to understand how people negotiate and what aspects of the situation they use as an aid to reach an agreement. Any aspect of a... -
Measuring social value for cultural and leisure facilities managed by third s...
The project responds to the current UK Government strategy for the third sector where there is an evidence gap in relation to understanding the size and characteristics of... -
Opportunistic managerial behaviour in response to share option compensation i...
The purpose of share option grants is to align the interests of managers with those of shareholders. However, share option compensation may encourage opportunistic managerial... -
Economic reforms and the evolution of productivity in Indian manufacturing firms
In 1991, the Indian economy underwent major economic reforms, after several decades of following an inward looking development strategy. This project will examine whether the... -
Household responses to complex tax incentives
Tax incentives to encourage retirement saving in the UK are relatively complex and have changed frequently. The research will investigate how these facts affect individual and... -
Price Dynamics in Food Retailing in Great Britain
This project aims to use and extend a novel and remarkably comprehensive dataset on food retailing to analyse new questions regarding firms' pricing behaviour at a highly... -
Situating small business regulation: A longitudinal study of how small firms ...
Prospering, internationally competitive small firms are crucial for the UK and its regions' economic and social well being. Yet there are widespread and longstanding concerns... -
An Experimental Study of the Strength and Evolution of Gift Exchange in Dynam...
Project 1: Cheating We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use... -
Human well-being and the 'Industrious Revolution': Consumption, gender and so...
How do consumption, production and reproduction interact to improve human well-being? This project addresses this question by exploring the theory of the ‘Industrious... -
Gambling and Households: New Gambling Directive at Mass Observation Archive
This research project seeks to improve understandings of gambling within domestic contexts. The Principal Investigator is working in collaboration with Mass Observation Archive... -
Modelling imprecise preferences and identifying the implications for theory a...
In order to understand the way the economy behaves we need a good understanding of how individuals make decisions: how they weigh different goods and services against their... -
Endocrine and neural basis of financial decision-making and asset market inst...
Financial market bubbles and crashes destabilise the global economy, yet a scientific explanation for their occurrence remains elusive. Our research will attempt to provide such... -
Third Sector Research Centre research data collection
The Third Sector Research Centre carried out research on the key issues affecting charities and voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, cooperatives and... -
Causes of Compliance: The EU and the WTO
International cooperation has become increasingly institutionalised. The significance of this development depends largely on whether governments conform to international rules... -
The role of speculators in standard auctions
Auctions are being used every day and lead to transactions of very high total value. Apart from the traditional auctions for physical objects like flowers, art and wine,... -
Challenging the Investment Climate Paradigm: governance, investment and pover...
This project examines a key assumption which underlies one of the main approaches to poverty reduction currently advocated and practised by many international development...