The problem of radioactive wastes -- Inflexible technologies and incrementalism -- Nuclear power and the problem of radioactive waste -- Nirex and the search for a site -- Health, environmental risks and the social construction of radioactive waste -- The participatory-deliberative turn --...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The problem of radioactive wastes -- 2 Inflexible technologies and incrementalism -- 3 Nuclear power and the problem of radioactive waste -- 4 Nirex and the search for...

Using data from Germany, Japan, UK, and the U.S., we explore possible threshold cointegration in nominal short- and long-run interest rates with corresponding inflation rates. Traditional cointegration implies perfect mean reversion in real rates and hence confirms the Fisher hypothesis....

This paper questions traditional approaches for testing the day-of-the-week effect on stock returns. We propose an alternative approach based on the closure test principle introduced by Marcus, Peritz and Gabriel (1976), which has become very popular in Biometrics and Medical Statistics. We test...

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...