The concept of ?financialisation? has informed recent analyses of the contemporary dynamics of monopoly capitalism. In the wake of the global financial crisis in 2007-08, the strategic role of finance and its capacity to destabilise the real economy and push it to the brink of economic...

This paper examines occupational choice to test if an extended array of variables, including personality traits, influences an individual?s occupational choice. Typically the heterogeneity of labour markets is examined by looking for compensating wage differentials as first advocated by Adam...

In this paper we study the effect of quality of institutions in the OECD and Asian host countries on outward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks of source OECD countries using International Country Risk Guide governance indicators, for the period 1991 to 2001. We find that better institutions...

Over the last two decades, globalisation has led to the rapidly increasing growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) all over the world. China, one of the largest net importers of FDI in the world, represents a country with a substantial share of foreign ownership whose FDI experience has been...

The aim of this paper is to study the likely impacts of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on the Australian labour market. We argue that the impact of the global crisis on the Australian economy is likely to be a continuing increase in unemployment and long term unemployment. The impact...

The roles of proximity and locale have been the subject of a growing literature on cross-organisational linkages in the field of Creative Industries. Research to date points to the importance of both community and network dynamics in these practices and their role in fostering group and...

The term structure of interest rates is often summarized using a handful of yield factors that capture shifts in the shape of the yield curve. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive model for volatility dynamics in the level, slope, and curvature of the yield curve that simultaneously...

A growing literature seeks to explain differences in individuals' self-reported satisfaction with their jobs. The evidence so far has mainly been based on cross-sectional data and when panel data have been used, individual unobserved heterogeneity has been modelled as an ordered probit model...

AbstractPurpose In the era of globalisation and information and communications technology, ebusinessis one of the critical issues in transport and logistics companies competition andgrowth. This study seeks to investigate the effect of various factors on the decision to adopte-business among...

Time series analysis for the Euro Area requires the availability of sufficiently long historical data series, but the appropriate construction methodology has received little attention. The benchmark dataset, developed by the European Central Bank for use in its Area Wide Model (AWM), is based...