This study examines if and how gender relates to research evaluation via panel assessment and journal ratings lists. Using data from UK business schools we find no evidence that the proportion of women in a submission for panel assessment affected the score received by the submitting...

We investigate how competition affected the survival of products in the UK automobile market between 1971 and 2002. We find, after using a host of controls to account for product characteristics and changes in market structure, that (i) within and between firm spatial competition significantly...

There is increasing pressure on universities to deliver social and economic impact from their work in an increasingly market and metric driven environment. Within the UK, increasing financial pressure has led to both an escalation of student fees, and constrained wage growth for faculty. In...

It is widely believed that higher education academic salaries are too low, and that this may lead to a ‘brain drain' and also lower quality in higher education, as universities fail to attract the ‘brightest and the best'. We compare the salaries of higher education teaching professionals in...

We investigate the impact on profit margins of exchange rate fluctuations in order to examine optimal pricing policy by source countries in the UK car market. We first estimate a nested logit demand model of new cars to calculate model-specific profit margins. Next we use these estimates to...

The quantity of finance research has grown enormously over the past two decades, yet questions remain over its breadth and ability to benefit the economy and society beyond academia. Using multisource data, we argue that individual and institutional incentives have fostered insularity and a...

We show that hedonic price indices that omit model-specific unobservable product attributes are subject to considerable bias. We utilize a complete panel of new car versions marketed in the UK over 1971-98 which incorporates over 100 observable product characteristics, sales weighting to capture...