• Workplace Occupation and the Possibilities of Popular Power in Chile and Argentina, 1972-6 

  Fishwick, Adam (Article)

  The recent wave of occupations has had a transformative effect on radical politics, but as Michael Hardt (2015) has noted, many have been restricted in their social and spatial expansion. Reflecting on these challenges, ...
• Maker Spaces as Micro Industrial and Innovation Districts in Fab Cities 

  Granger, R.C. (Conference)

  This paper and session draws on the empirical case of Underbroen in Copenhagen, as a site of innovation, local production, and a Quintuple Helix. Distinct form the model assumed in Copenhagen’s Space 10 ( https://space10.io), ...
• Fields in flux: institutional bricolage during a technological shock. 

  Marquez-Gallardo, S. L. (Conference)

  How do established institutions interact with proto-institutions during the adoption of a technology shock? In this paper, I examine the interplay between existing institutions and the proto-institutions originated as a ...
• Forecasting tourism demand with denoised neural networks 

  Silva, Emmanuel ; Hassani, Hossein ; Heravi, Saeed ; Huang, Xu (Article)

  The automated Neural Network Autoregressive (NNAR) algorithm from the forecast package in R generates sub-optimal forecasts when faced with seasonal tourism demand data. We propose denoising as a means of improving the ...
• Empirical Studies on Stock Return Predictability and International Risk Exposure 

  Lu, Qinye (Working Paper)

  Empirical evidence on the predictability of aggregate stock returns has shown that many commonly used predictor variables have little power to predict the market out-of-sample. However, a recent paper by Kelly and Pruitt ...
• Commentary: Crises, the spatial distribution of economic activity and the geography of banking 

  Werner, Richard A. (Article)

  It is an assumption in some influential economic models that the amount of funds available in an economy is limited. However, an economy characterised by a fixed total nominal amount of funds could not experience any nominal ...
• How do banks create money, and why can other firms not do the same? An explanation for the coexistence of lending and deposit-taking 

  Werner, Richard A. (Article)

  Thanks to the recent banking crises interest has grown in banks and how they operate. In the past, the empirical and institutional market micro-structure of the operation of banks had not been a primary focus for investigations ...
• A lost century in Economics: Three theories of banking and the conclusive evidence 

  Werner, Richard A. (Article)

  How do banks operate and where does the money supply come from? The financial crisis has heightened awareness that these questions have been unduly neglected by many researchers. During the past century, three different ...
• Can Banks Individually Create Money Out of Nothing? – The Theories and the Empirical Evidence 

  Werner, Richard A. (Article)

  This paper presents the first empirical evidence in the history of banking on the question of whether banks can create money out of nothing. The banking crisis has revived interest in this issue, but it had remained ...
• Do FDI Inflows Generate Economic Growth in Large Developed Economies? A New Empirical Approach, Applied to Spain 

  Werner, Richard A. ; Bermejo Carbonell, J. (Article)

  It is often asserted with confidence that foreign direct investment (FDI) is beneficial for economic growth in the host economy. Empirical evidence has been mixed, and there remain gaps in the literature. The majority of ...
• An analytical review of volatility metrics for bubbles and crashes 

  Vogel, Harold ; Werner, Richard A. (Article)

  Bubbles and crashes have long been an important area of research that has not yet led to a comprehensive theoretical or empirical understanding of how to define, measure, and compare such extreme market events. Highlights ...
• Sustainability and the financial system – Review of Literature 

  Aspinall, N. ; Jones, S. ; McNeill, R. ; Werner, Richard A. ; Zalk, T. (Article)

  Much actuarial work is underpinned by the use of economic models derived from mainstream academic theories of finance and economics which treat money as being a neutral medium of exchange. The sustainability of a financial ...
• A half-century diversion of monetary policy? An empirical horse-race to identify the UK variable most likely to deliver the desired nominal GDP growth rate 

  Ryan-Collins, Josh ; Werner, Richard A. ; Castle, Jennifer (Article)

  The financial crisis of 2007–2008 triggered monetary policy designed to boost nominal demand, including ‘Quantitative Easing’, ‘Credit Easing’, ‘Forward Guidance’ and ‘Funding for Lending’. A key aim of these policies was ...
• Reconsidering the role of interest rates in monetary policy: An empirical examination of the relationship between interest rates and nominal GDP growth in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan 

  Werner, Richard A. ; Lee, Kang-Soek (Article)

  The rate of interest – the price of money – is said to be a key policy tool. Economics has in general emphasised prices. This theoretical bias results from the axiomatic-deductive methodology centring on equilibrium. Without ...
• Enhanced debt management: Solving the eurozone crisis by linking debt management with fiscal and monetary policy 

  Werner, Richard A. (Article)

  Unconventional approaches to suit unusual circumstances have become acceptable in monetary policy, a formerly highly conservative discipline. In this paper it is argued that unconventional approaches should also be considered ...
• Benford's law first significant digit and distribution distances for testing the reliability of finanical reports in developing countries 

  Zhu, Tingting ; Shi, Jing ; Ausloo, Marcel (Article)

  Wediscuss a common suspicion about reported financial data, in 10 industrial sectors of the 6 so called ‘‘main developing countries’’ over the time interval [2000–2014]. These data are examined through Benford’s law first ...
• Entrepreneurial learning: peripherality and connectedness 

  Rae, David (Article)

  This article explores the roles of peripherality and centrality in relation to entrepreneurial learning and development. Peripherality has previously been considered from a mainly geographical perspective as being remote, ...
• Developing an entrepreneurial mindset in US engineering education: an international view of the KEEN project 

  Rae, David ; Melton, D.E. (Article)

  This article explains the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) in introducing innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering degree programs in independent universities in the United States of America (USA). ...
• Come regolare i paraocchi: la trasversalita oltre Guattari 

  Checchi, Marco (Book chapter)

  This book chapter offers an overview of the concept of transversality in and beyond the work of Felix Guattari. Traces of this overview are organised through a genealogy of the concept that starts with Guattari's early ...
• Ubuntu, public policy ethics and tensions in South Africa's foreign policy 

  Qobo, M. ; Nyathi, N. (Article)

  This article examines the practicability of Ubuntu in public policy, in particular the domain that concerns South Africa’s external relations. The authors contend that advancing Ubuntu in a world that is increasingly ...

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