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Functional Polycentrism and Urban Network Development in the Greater South East UK: Evidence from Commuting Patterns, 1981-2001
Burger, Martijn Johan; Oort, Frank van; de Goei, de Goei, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
In contemporary literature on changing urban systems, it is often argued that the traditional central place conceptualisation is outdated and should be replaced by a network view that emphasises the increasing criss-crossing pattern of interdependencies between spatial units. This paper tests...
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Return and volatility spillovers: evidence from Indian exchange rates
Kumar, Manish - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 4, pp. 371-387
This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...
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International financial contagion of the US sub-prime crisis: evidence through the adjusted correlation test and non-linear Error Correction Models (ECM)
Omri, Anis; Ghorbel-Zouari, Sonia - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 4 (2011) 2, pp. 135-149
markets of USA, France, Germany, Japan and UK during the current crisis. …
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US and European stock market crashes: Any evidence of interdependence?
Sooreea, Rajeev; Wheeler, Mark - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 4 (2011) 4, pp. 372-389
This paper examines the response of Stock Prices (SPs) in Germany, Italy, and the UK to shocks to US Stock Prices (USSPs) using Vector Error Correction Models (VECMs) and cross-country stock return correlations. Our results yield clear implications. Positive shocks to USSPs lead to significant,...
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Employment relations in German multinational companies in the UK and the future of the German model: empirical evidence on country-of-origin effects and industry internationalisati...
Tuselmann, Heinz-Josef; Heise, Arne; McDonald, Frank; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 390-408
Interest has grown in the significance of the country-of-origin impact on the Employment Relations (ER) approaches in the international subsidiaries of Multinational Companies (MNCs). In this article, a comparative cross-sectional analysis of German subsidiaries with indigenous UK firms will be...
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Heterogeneity and sentiment in the stock market
Frijns, Bart; Gilbert, Aaron; Tourani-Rad, Alireza - In: International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance 2 (2011) 2, pp. 140-151
markets, the USA and the UK, for a long period of time. Our empirical results show that: 1) there is a considerable degree of … degree of switching in the USA and the UK, giving some support to the hypothesis that common sentiment could drive the …
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Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies: profit implications of price discounting
Longo, Christopher J. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 447-460
Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been debated in published literature; however, these debates have not accounted for the differences in elasticity of demand between the public, private and cash paying markets. A mathematical model is presented that explores several plausible...
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Pension buyouts: what can the USA learn from the UK experience?
Monk, Ashby H.B. - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 4 (2010) 2, pp. 127-150
This paper analyses the UK market for Defined Benefit (DB) pension buyouts and considers its implications for the USA …
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A case of 'No man's land' in economics: price indexes and their applications
Lizardi, Carlos Guerrero De - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 5 (2014) 2, pp. 144-156
in the USA. In the third step, we display some alternatives to the plutocratic aggregate method, and we establish its …
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Multilateral agreements and trade in education services: implications for Ethiopia
Lemi, Adugna - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 4 (2013) 3, pp. 255-277
USA and the UK as destination countries, the study identifies national and multilateral factors that may hinder, or … results show that for the USA, although GDP per capita and education service commitments of a country had negative effects, US … the case of the UK, unlike the USA, a country's cross-border and commercial presence commitments discouraged students from …
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