Applied Research Working Paper Series
Staff within the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting regularly publish research papers, covering a wide range of applied research topics and areas of interest.
The contents of these papers should not be reproduced, quoted or used in any other way, without first obtaining the permission of the author(s).
Working Paper Series Index
| 2011 Research Working Papers |
| RP11-6: |
Behavioural Determinants of Client Savings for Retirement. By Keith Redhead |
| RP11-5: |
International portfolio diversification and the 2007 financial crisis: will structural change in equity market correlations have a lasting impact on optimal portfolio selection? By Jacek Niklewski and Timothy Rodgers |
| RP11-4: |
Investor Sentiment And Calendar Anomaly Effects: A Case Study Of The Impact Of Ramadan On Islamic Middle Eastern Markets. By Heitham Al Al-Hajieh, Keith Redhead and Timothy Rodgers |
| RP11-3: |
Behavioural Determinants Of Client Saving For Retirement. By Keith Redhead |
| RP11-2: |
The financial crisis and the UK residential housing Market: has the relationship between interest rates and house prices changed? By Chin-Bun Tse, Timothy Rodgers and Jacek Niklewski |
| RP11-1: |
Option theory, time diversification, and index funds .By Keith Redhead and Jacek Niklewski |
| 2010 Research Working Papers |
| RP10-6: |
The capital structure of Chinese listed firms: does manufacturing industry membership matter? By Chin-Bun Tse and Timothy Rodgers |
| RP10-5: |
Behavioral Perspectives on Client Mistrust of Financial Services By Keith Redhead |
| RP10-4: |
Performative education of prospective personal finance professionals: a multidisciplinary curriculum for higher education By Keith Redhead |
| RP10-3: |
Government Media or Commercial Media: An IO Study of the Chinese TV -Broadcasting Market By Hui Pan |
| RP10-02: |
Guaranteed Capital Funds: Behavioural and Option Pricing Perspectives. By Keith Redhead. |
| RP10-01: |
Multivariate GARCH Models: a comparative study of the impact of alternative methodologies on correlation. By Karl Shutes and Jacek Niklewski. |
| 2009 Research Working Papers |
| RP09-20: |
Behavioural Perspectives on Index Funds. By Keith Redhead |
| RP09-19: |
Investor Sentiment And Islamic Calendar Anomaly Effects: A Case Study Of The Impact Of Ramadan In Jordan. By Heitham Al Al-Hajieh, Keith Redhead and Timothy Rodgers |
| RP09-18: |
Pricing Strategy of Platform: An Investigation to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Industry. By Swadesh Kumar Samanta and Hui Pan. |
| RP09-17: |
Tiger, Tiger... What Lessons are there from Irish Industrial Policy for Small African Economies? By David Bailey, Helena Lenihan and Ajit Singh. |
| RP09-16: |
The MG Rover Closure and Policy Response: An evaluation of the Task Force Model in the UK by Gill Bentley, David Bailey and Alex De Ruyter. |
| RP09-15: |
The Multi-Disciplinary Nature Of Personal Finance. By Keith Redhead |
| RP09-14: |
Board structure and value added performance in Nigeria. By Preye E.G. Angaye, David Gwilliam, Oliver Marnet and Dennis Thomas. |
| RP09-13: |
Audit Within the Corporate Governance Paradigm: a Cornerstone Built on Shifting Sand? By David Gwilliam and Oliver Marnet. |
| RP09-12: |
Failures in governance of a not-for-profit organization: a case study of a housing association. By Oliver Marnet. |
| RP09-11: |
Changing Policies for the Automotive Industry in the UK West Midlands: An Open Innovation Model. By Stewart MacNeill and David Bailey. |
| RP09-10: |
Precariousness of employment and regional disparities: an analysis of the labour market status of MG Rover workers 3 years after closure. By Alex de Ruyter, David Bailey, Gill Bentley and Caroline Chapain |
| RP09-9: |
Option Theory Does Not Refute Time Diversification. By Keith Redhead |
| RP09-8: |
Undergraduate non-completion rates and whether or not it should be treated as an ethnicity issue: a case study of a cohort on ‘home’ students from a British ‘new’ university. By Timothy Rodgers |
| RP09-7: |
Place-renewing leadership: trajectories of change for mature manufacturing regions in Europe. By D. Bailey, M. Bellandi, A. Caloffi and L. De Propris |
| RP09-6: |
A Behavioral View of How People Make Financial Decisions. By Keith Redhead |
| RP09-5: |
Client mistrust of advisers, products and markets by Keith Redhead |
| RP09-4: |
Using Game Theory to Re-examine Dividend Signalling Theory by Chin-Bun Tse |
| RP09-3: |
Corporate Tax Planning In China: Do Shanghai Listed Companies Make Efficient Use of Tax Shields? by Timothy Rodgers and Chin-Bun Tse |
| RP09-2: |
Student Performance In E-Education: How Far Do Leaning Style Differences Influence Student Grades? by Timothy Rodgers |
| RP09-1: |
Analysis of Cross Border and Domestic Mega-Mergers & Acquisitions of European Commercial Banks by Matthias A. Nnadi and Sailesh Tanna |
| 2008 Research Working Papers |
| RP08-11: |
The impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity growth: international evidence from the banking industry. By Sailesh Tanna. |
| RP08-10: |
Financial advisors and their clients: can there be a meeting of minds? By Keith Redhead |
| RP08-9: |
Finance theory and financial advice: is commission a necessary evil? By Keith Redhead |
| RP08-8: |
A Behavioural Model of the Dot.com Bubble and Crash. by Keith Redhead |
| RP08-7: |
Modelling Skewness and Kurtosis: An Application of the Skewed Family of Distributions to the Johannesburg and Nairobi Stock Exchanges. By Karl Shutes. |
| RP08-6: |
Information In The London Stock Exchange- Was George Eliot Right? By Karl Shutes and Charlie Cai. |
| RP08-5: |
The effect of board size and composition on the efficiency of UK banks. By Sailesh Tanna, Fotios Pasiouras and Matthias Nnadi. |
| RP08-4: |
Determinants of profitability of domestic UK commercial banks: panel evidence from the period 1995-2002. By Kyriaki Kosmidou, Sailesh Tanna and Fotios Pasiouras. |
| RP08-3: |
Does Cash Flow Statement Add Value to Predicting Companies Failure in Malaysia? By Chin-Bun Tse and Mei-Sen Pak. |
| RP08-2: |
The prediction of bank acquisition targets with discriminant and logit analyses: methodological issues and empirical evidence. By Fotios Pasiouras and Sailesh Tanna. |
| RP08-1: |
Student engagement in the e-learning process and the impact on their grades. By Timothy Rodgers. |
| 2007 Research Working Papers |
| RP07-5: |
Regulations, supervision and banks' cost and profit efficiency around the world: a stochastic frontier approach. By Fotios Pasiouras, Sailesh Tanna and Constantin Zopounidis. |
| RP07-4: |
An Investigation Into The measurement of the quality in student unions: A quantitative analysis of eleven student unions. By Timothy Rodgers. |
| RP07-3: |
What Drives Acquisitions in the EU Banking Industry? The Role of Bank Regulation and Supervision Framework, Bank Specific and Market Specific Factors. By Fotios Pasiouras, Sailesh Tanna and Chrysovalantis Gaganis. |
| RP07-2: |
Determinants of acquisitions in the EU commercial banking industry: An empirical investigation of banks' financial characteristics and market conditions. By Fotios Pasiouras and Sailesh Tanna. |
| RP07-1: |
Market Efficiency within the German Stock Market: A comparative study of the relative Efficiencies of the DAX, MDAX, SDAX and ASE indices. By Admin Starcevic and Timothy Rodgers |