• UK Preferential International Trade after 23 June 2016 

  English, Rachel A. (Conference)

  Now the situation is changing as the UK has voted to come out of the EU on the 23 June 2016. So how is this going to affect the UK importers? UK Importers are concerned if trade agreements and preference agreements can ...
• Responsabilidad social y discapacidad intelectual 

  Crowther, David ; Duarte-Atoche, T. (Article)

  There are many aspects of corporate social responsibility which become manifest in different ways in different environments but human rights remains one of the 3 most important aspects. This paper commences with a review ...
• Executive compensation and CSR reporting in Nigerian listed companies 

  Mgbame, C. O. ; Baba, B. ; Chijoke-Mgbame, A.M. (Article)

  The objective of the study is to examine the effect of executive compensation on corporate social responsibility reporting. The study adopts a survey research design to address the objective. A sample of 100 companies ...
• The Modern Corporation Statement on Economics 

  Lancastle, Neil (Article)

  From the early decades of the twentieth century, a dominant characteristic of the modern “capitalist” corporation, especially in the United States, was the separation of asset ownership in the form of publicly traded shares ...
• Ukrainian Financial Forum - Neil Lancastle, economist, De Montfort University 

  Lancastle, Neil (Video)

  Ukraine's position in the global economy: key macroeconomic risk and challenges.
• An Empirical Investigation into the Reversal of the Carry Trade 

  Lancastle, Neil (Conference)

  The carry trade, where profits can be made in currency markets using price information alone, has been a persistent anomaly in financial markets since the collapse of Bretton Woods. The paper investigates the reversal of ...
• Moneyness, Volatility, and the Cross-Section of Option Returns 

  Lin, Ming-Tsung ; Poon, Ser-Huang ; Aretz, K. (Working Paper)

  We study the effect of an asset's volatility on the expected returns of European options written on the asset. A simple stochastic discount factor model suggests that the effect differs depending on whether variations in ...
• Gender Diverse Portfolios as New Asset Class 

  Lin, Ming-Tsung ; Poon, Ser-Huang (Working Paper)

  This paper studies market-traded equity portfolios that are constructed based on a minimum number of female board members and/or a target female work force ratio. Using the top 1,000 US firms from 2002 to 2015 as the ...
• Fraud in Small Charities: Evidence from England and Wales 

  Ohalehi, Paschal (Article)

  Purpose – Despite the increasing awareness of fraud in organisations in the UK and the potential benefits of strong fraud management through deterrence and prevention, there remains limited research on fraud in small ...
• Antecedents of voluntary corporate governance disclosure: A post-2007/08 financial crisis evidence from the influential UK Combined Code 

  Elmagrhi, M.H. ; Ntim, Collins G. ; Wang, Yan (Article)

  Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of compliance with, and disclosure of, good corporate governance (CG) practices among UK publicly listed firms and consequently ascertain whether board ...
• Financial development and economic growth in China 

  Wang, Yan ; Li, X. ; Abdou, H. A. ; Ntim, Collins G. (Article)

  The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth. In particular, the authors examine the impact of financial development on the growth of primary, secondary, and ...
• Financial and corporate social performance in UK listed firms: The relevance of non-linearity and lag effects 

  Adegbite, E. ; Guney, Y. ; Kwabi, Frank ; Tahir, S. (Article)

  Using environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores compiled by Reuters Datastream for each company’s corporate social performance (CSP), we examine the relationship between CSP and corporate financial performance (CFP) ...
• Prediction of financial strength ratings using machine learning and conventional techniques 

  Collins Nitm ; Abdou, H. A. ; Abdalla, W. M. ; Mulkeen, J. ; Collins, N. ; Wang, Yan (Article)

  Financial strength ratings (FSRs) have become more significant particularly since the recent financial crisis of 2007-09 where rating agencies failed to forecast defaults and the downgrade of some banks. The aim of this ...
• Too Big to Ignore? Hedge Fund Flows and Bond Yields 

  Kolokolova, Olga ; Lin, Ming-Tsung ; Poon, Ser-Huang (Article)

  This paper investigates the information content of aggregate hedge fund flow and its predictive power with respect to bond yields. Using a sample of 9725 hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, we find that fund flow is negatively ...
• Entrepreneurial alertness and new venture performance: facilitating roles of networking capability 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Danso, Albert ; Boso, Nathaniel ; Narteh, Bedman (Article)

  An ability to act upon an entrepreneurial opportunity has been noted to be a major driver of new venture success. However, scholarly knowledge is limited on how and when entrepreneurs’ alertness to entrepreneurial opportunities ...
• Leverage and firm investment: the role of information asymmetry and growth 

  Danso, Albert ; Lartey, Theophilus ; Fosu, Samuel ; Owusu-Agyei, Samuel ; Uddin, Moshfique (Article)

  This paper demonstrates how financial leverage impacts firm investment and the extent to which this relationship is conditional on the level of information asymmetry as well as growth. The paper relies on data from 2403 ...
• Corporate Governance and Elites 

  Nakpodia, F. ; Adegbite, E. (Article)

  Using a qualitative methodology (interviews), we examine the relationship between the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms and elitist interventions. In doing this, we identify three elitist groups – political, ...
• Predictability of Stock Returns based on the Partial Least Squares Methodology 

  Lu, Qinye ; Taylor, Alex (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 ...
• An Unreliable Canary: Insider Trading, the Cash Flow Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis’ 

  Lambe, Brendan (Article)

  This paper investigates whether measures of aggregated insider trading could have predicted the wider economic change that occurred in the UK around the time of the financial crisis. Seyhun's (1988, 1992) cash flow ...
• The role of media in the credit crunch: The case of the banking sector 

  Lambe, Brendan ; Wisniewski, Tomasz (Article)

  Using a Vector Autoregression framework, this paper investigates the dynamic relationship between the intensity of negative media speculation and the market performance of financial institutions. Evidence is provided ...

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