The role of universities has expanded to include being a driver of innovation. We suggest that any such body so charged is perhaps best suited to achieve this if it itself is innovative. We review the literature on corporate innovation, discuss a recent metric of innovative culture and present...

The Irish bailout highlighted two major issues about the involvement of multilateral agencies in Europe: one was their desire for visible short-term solutions and second is a significant disregard of the political institutions with which they were forced to engage. The Irish case study and more...

The Irish financial crisis caused unprecedented damage to the national economy. While large amounts of tax-dollars have gone towards understanding the events leading up to the crisis, there has not been a concentrated effort to consolidate the lessons learned for both Ireland and the European...

The recent international financial crisis exposed many of the frailties that exist within the European banking sector. One major decision taken by the European Commission was to transition the powers of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors to that of the European Banking Authority...

The aim of this article is to provide a discussion interface for historians and those that are in the present world of economics. The Global Financial Crisis set in motion a series of debates on the nature and scope of monetary policy. The role of monetary policy and the central bank since the...

In a time when there are only limited funding and staffing but ever-increasing enrollments of students, to assess the efficiency of universities becomes a crucial task, which itself is vital for effective allocation and utilisation of educational resources. The main aim of this paper is to...

Industrial incidents causing injury and fatality generate substantial costs to publicly traded firms. Risks associated with these potential incidents are not limited to only those companies that might be directly involved. Theoretically, stock markets are designed to self-regulate safety...

In November 2008, the United States (US) Federal Reserve began purchasing mortgage-backed security obligations, in an attempt to support the failing housing market and improve financial market conditions. This paper provides an investigation of the volatility effects associated with regularly...

Blockchain technology appears to be ready to revolutionise a broad number of industries. However, the blockchain itself contains a number of inefficiencies and areas for improvement, namely: transaction fees and transaction speeds. Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) address, and improve on these...

Times of financial crisis generate often irregular monetary policy response. In the past decade, much focus has surrounded zero, and even, negative interest rate policies along with quantitative easing. While corporate borrowing continues to be ‘cheap,’ it is important to analyse as to...