This paper assesses the prospects in Britain for investment by financial institutions in private rented housing. The first section describes the previous and the current governments'policies on private rented housing, the policy-measures established to revive this sector of the housing market...

This is the first international systematic review to focus on the impact of PPI on the people involved in the process. The beneficial and challenging impacts reported highlight the importance of optimising the context and processes of involvement, so creating the potential for PPI to impact...

Previous research argues that earnings quality, measured as the unsigned abnormal accruals, proxies for information asymmetries that affect cost of capital. We examine this argument directly in two stages. In the first stage, we estimate firms' exposure to an earnings quality factor in the...