New entry, strategic diversity and efficiency in soccer betting markets: the creation and suppression of arbitrage opportunities (2018)
Journal Article
Grant, A., Oikonomidis, A., Bruce, A. C., & Johnson, J. E. (2018). New entry, strategic diversity and efficiency in soccer betting markets: the creation and suppression of arbitrage opportunities. European Journal of Finance, 24(18), (1799-1816). doi:10.1080/1351847X.2018.1443148. ISSN 1351-847X

We find that prices offered by competing bookmakers within the same quote-driven soccer (football) betting market provide arbitrage opportunities. However, the management practices of bookmakers prevent informed bettors exploiting these in practice.... Read More

Assessing the potential and limits of community-based initiatives in urban regeneration: three decades of experience on Sheffield’s Manor estate (2017)
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Bruce, A., & Clarson, D. (in press). Assessing the potential and limits of community-based initiatives in urban regeneration: three decades of experience on Sheffield’s Manor estate. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 4(1), doi:10.1080/21681376.2017.1313129. ISSN 2168-1376

Shifting the goalposts? Analysing changes to performance peer groups used to determine the remuneration of FTSE100 CEOs (2016)
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Skovoroda, R., & Bruce, A. (2017). Shifting the goalposts? Analysing changes to performance peer groups used to determine the remuneration of FTSE100 CEOs. British Journal of Management, 28(2), doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12209. ISSN 1045-3172

This paper examines year-on-year changes to the composition of performance peer groups used for Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE) in setting CEO pay in FTSE 100 companies and finds evidence of peer selection bias. We find that firms keep their pe... Read More

Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrocienegas Basin, NE Mexico (2014)
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Felstead, N. J., Gonzalez, S., Huddart, D., Noble, S. R., Hoffmann, D. L., Metcalfe, S. E., …Jimenez-Lopez, J. C. (2014). Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrocienegas Basin, NE Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science, 42, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.010. ISSN 0305-4403

Two sets of well-preserved human footprints have been found in tufa sediments in the Cuatrociénegas Basin, NE Mexico, and here we present their U-series dates of 10.55 � 0.03 ka and 7.24 � 0.13 ka. The former are the oldest known footprints in Mexico... Read More