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Unemployment Risks and Optimal Retirement in an Incomplete Market (2016)
Journal Article

We develop a new approach for solving the optimal retirement problem for an individual with an unhedgeable income risk. The income risk stems from a forced unemployment event, which occurs as an exponentially-distributed random shock. The optimal ret... Read More about Unemployment Risks and Optimal Retirement in an Incomplete Market.

Supply chain configuration conundrum: how does the pharmaceutical industry mitigate disturbance factors? (2016)
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How a supply chain (SC) is configured can have a significant impact on the performance of global firms. More specifically, disturbance factors (i.e. those factors associated with uncertainty and risk) are increasingly important considerations. This p... Read More about Supply chain configuration conundrum: how does the pharmaceutical industry mitigate disturbance factors?.

Once upon a time there was a consumer…: stories of magic and the magic of stories (2016)
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This paper explores how the centrality of narrative to people’s understandings of the world, and the power of stories of enchantment in particular, colour consumer culture. Specifically, it analyses the ways in which fantastic themes of magic and her... Read More about Once upon a time there was a consumer…: stories of magic and the magic of stories.

Optimal design of uptime-guarantee contracts under IGFR valuations and convex costs (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. An uptime-guarantee contract commits a service provider to maintain the functionality of a customer's equipment at least for certain fraction of working time during a contracted period. This paper addresses the optimal design of... Read More about Optimal design of uptime-guarantee contracts under IGFR valuations and convex costs.

Financial development and productive inefficiency: a robust conditional directional distance function approach (2016)
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This paper examines whether the level of financial development helps lower countries’ inefficiency using time-dependent robust conditional directional distance functions in a sample of 91 countries over 1970–2011. The overall results reveal that the... Read More about Financial development and productive inefficiency: a robust conditional directional distance function approach.

The magic of branding: The role of ‘pledge’, ‘turn’ and ‘prestige’ in fostering consumer trust in financial services (2016)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of brand image on consumer trust through empirical investigation in the context of financial services sector. Whilst trust helps to bind consumers to brands, a strong brand image works like magic in re... Read More about The magic of branding: The role of ‘pledge’, ‘turn’ and ‘prestige’ in fostering consumer trust in financial services.

Splitting hairs? Is it discrimination? James Marson & Katy Ferris examine the different approaches of the court to mistreatment on grounds of nationality & immigration status (2016)
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In Brief: In Taiwo v Olaigbe and another: Onu v Akwiwu and another the Supreme Court had to decide whether the appellants suffered mistreatment on the basis of their nationality (protected by s13(1) of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010)) or due to thei... Read More about Splitting hairs? Is it discrimination? James Marson & Katy Ferris examine the different approaches of the court to mistreatment on grounds of nationality & immigration status.

Is there a spirit of overseas Chinese capitalism? (2016)
Journal Article

The economic miracle of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia has been attributed to their unique economic culture forged from Confucian thought and the emigration experience. However, this Spirit of Overseas Chinese Capitalism (SOCC) hypothesis, ba... Read More about Is there a spirit of overseas Chinese capitalism?.

The depiction of marketing and marketers in the news media (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose – In an effort to explain the high level of scepticism and distrust towards marketing and marketers, paper explores how marketing practice and practitioners are depicted in the mass media. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses 6,8... Read More about The depiction of marketing and marketers in the news media.

The relative efficacy of price announcements and express communication for collusion: Experimental findings (2016)
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This study conducts experiments to determine the modes of communication that are able to produce and sustain collusion and how the efficacy of communication depends on market structure. Two communication treatments are considered: non-binding price a... Read More about The relative efficacy of price announcements and express communication for collusion: Experimental findings.

Small deviations in L2-norm for Gaussian dependent sequences (2016)
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Let be a centered Gaussian stationary sequence satisfying some minor regularity condition. We study the asymptotic behavior of its weighted -norm small deviation probabilities. It is shown that whenever using the arguments based on the spectral theor... Read More about Small deviations in L2-norm for Gaussian dependent sequences.

Experiencing Englishness Humour And Guided Tours (2016)
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This study develops a small but growing cadre of work seeking to reveal how humour is used in tourism. It focuses on the presentation of three sites in southern England where guides use humour to enhance the presentation of the country’s distinctive... Read More about Experiencing Englishness Humour And Guided Tours.

The (re)production of climbing space: bodies, gestures, texts (2016)
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According to Lefebvre, space is not an absolute given, an empty and presumed starting point, but space is produced through human action. Further, he contends, there is a material basis to the production of space – the “practical and fleshy body”. The... Read More about The (re)production of climbing space: bodies, gestures, texts.

The effect of bidder conservatism on M&A decisions: text-based evidence from US 10-K filings (2016)
Journal Article

This paper examines whether and how bidders' conservative tone in 10-K filings influences the subsequent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) investment decisions of these US firms from 1996 to 2013. Based on 39,260 firm-year observations, we find, consist... Read More about The effect of bidder conservatism on M&A decisions: text-based evidence from US 10-K filings.

The role of sovereign credit ratings in fiscal discipline (2016)
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This paper investigates several aspects of the relationship between sovereign credit ratings and fiscal discipline. The analysis of over one thousand country–year observations for 93 countries during the 1999–2010 period reveals that a country’s debt... Read More about The role of sovereign credit ratings in fiscal discipline.

Trademarking activities and total factor productivity: some evidence for British commercial banks using a metafrontier approach (2016)
Journal Article

In this paper, we compute a non-parametric Metafrontier Malmquist index to evaluate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) change among UK-based trademarking and non-trademarking commercial banks between 2005 and 2013. The use of the metafrontier approa... Read More about Trademarking activities and total factor productivity: some evidence for British commercial banks using a metafrontier approach.

Neither Principles Nor Rules: Making Corporate Governance Work in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
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Corporate governance is often split between rule-based and principle-based approaches to regulation in different institutional contexts. This split is often informed by the types of institutional configurations, their strengths, and the complementari... Read More about Neither Principles Nor Rules: Making Corporate Governance Work in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sustainable global agrifood supply chains: exploring the barriers (2016)
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The article investigates the factors that make businesses postpone integrating the performance dimension of sustainability in global agrifood supply chains. Based on literature-based conceptual reasoning, the article conceptualizes a double company l... Read More about Sustainable global agrifood supply chains: exploring the barriers.

Staged privatization: transforming state-owned enterprises into market-based firms (2016)
Journal Article

Most privatizations around the world, especially in developed economies, are staged processes involving multiple stages of share lockup and unlocking in the stock market. This paper proposes a theory on staged or step-by-step privatization. We show t... Read More about Staged privatization: transforming state-owned enterprises into market-based firms.

Imported technology and manufacturing employment in Ethiopia (2016)
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the pe... Read More about Imported technology and manufacturing employment in Ethiopia.