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Nutter, R. D. "Implications for return migration from the United Kingdom for urban employment in Kingston, Jamaica." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233748.

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Hussain, Hafezali Iqbal. "Capital structure and market timing in the UK : empirical evidence from UK firms." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:13737.

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This thesis studies capital structure of non-financial firm in the UK. It specifically examines the market timing theory of capital structure in the three different empirical chapters. Given that the market timing theory is new relative to the trade-off and pecking order explanations of firms‟ capital structure decisions; it provides an interesting discourse for the wider finance community. The thesis empirically tests the theory and provides evidence as well as theoretical implications for practising managers. The first empirical chapter looks at the timing of IPOs and SEOs in the UK as well

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McGee, P. S. T. "ERDF regional aid : Improving access for UK local authorities." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234456.

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Crosse, John D. "PBDEs in predatory birds from the UK." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658319.

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polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are additive flame retardants that have been -widely used globally for the last 30-40 years. In their functional operation, PBDEs are released from parent products when exposed to heat and light in order to retard combustion reactions. The physiochemical properties of PBDEs coupled with widespread use and production has led to ubiquitous environmental contamination by these compounds. In recent years PBDEs have become increasingly well studied and evidence of their toxicity to biota and occurrence in remote and pristine environments has led to the - imple

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Xu, Lei. "Returns to education : evidence from the UK." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/3df62523-d6b5-47e7-90fa-ab824e60abee.

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This thesis consists of three independent chapters which address separate questions in relation to labor economics and economics of education. Wage Penalty of Vocational Education: Evidence from the UK (Chapter 3): In this chapter, I examine the difference in wages between academic and vocational education in the UK based on Quarterly Labor Force Survey (QLFS) from 2001 to 2013. First I examine the crude wage differences between vocational and academic education. To further test the differences between two types of education, I examine the effect of the education expansion on the returns to hi

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Kanungo, Rama P. "Corporate restructuring : empirical evidence from the UK." Thesis, Aston University, 2010. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/11938/.

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Corporate restructuring is perceived as a challenge to research. Prior studies do not provide conclusive evidence regarding the effects of restructuring. Since there are discernible findings, this research attempts to examine the effects of restructuring events amongst the UK listed firms. The sample firms are listed in the LSE and London AIM stock exchange. Only completed restructuring transactions are included in the study. The time horizon extends from year 1999 to 2003. A three-year floating window is assigned to examine the sample firms. The key enquiry is to scrutinise the ex post effect

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Al, Fadhel Hessa Mubarak. "Charity accountability : evidence from the United Kingdom (UK)." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/428061/.

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This thesis examines UK charities' accountability through the use of annual reports and annual reviews as formal accountability tools. The overall aim of the thesis is to undertake a coherent analysis of the accountability of annual reports and annual reviews using multiple dimensions of text and disclosures by empirically examining UK charities' accountability disclosure. Given the overall aim, the objectives of this thesis are: first, to assess the effectiveness of narrative communication textual characteristics - specifically chairman's statements - in the context of the role played by trus

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Needham, Duncan James. "UK monetary policy from devaluation to Mrs Thatcher." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648616.

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Adra, Samer. "Four essays on UK takeovers : evidence from matching analysis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9488.

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In four empirical chapters, matching analysis is employed to estimate the effects of specific contractual and regulatory arrangements on particular deal outcomes in the UK takeover market. The first chapter highlights the positive effect of earnout financing on the acquiring firms' returns in private target acquisitions. Furthermore, this chapter offers a detailed example of how the non-parametric Propensity Score Matching, despite its growing popularity in financial research, can lead to inaccurate inferences when relevant private-target-specific factors are omitted from the analysis. The sec

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Eltaybany, Sarah Abdelmohsen. "Accruals anomaly and accruals management : evidence from the UK." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=240721.

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Assadi, Gholam Hossein. "Profile of corporate disposal : evidence from the UK market." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.632634.

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Owners wishing to sell their business have a number of alternative exit routes. In a UK context, they may opt for a public sale of their shares either through the London International Stock Exchange, main market or on the AIM. Alternatively, they may choose a private sale route i.e. MBO or trade sale. This study aims to investigate the connection between the financial characteristics of firms and their choice of exit route. In particular company capital structure and valuation measures are used to discriminate between alternative exit routes and explain the rationale and factors for such segme

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Jiang, Fei. "Going public : why and when? : evidence from the UK." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33790.

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This thesis empirically investigates the motive for and the timing of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the UK. Due to an apparent lack of research, the two questions as to why firms choose to go public and how they time their IPOs are left under-addressed in the existing IPO literature. Answers to these questions are critical to understand IPO activities and the extent to which firms can make efficient use of the stock market. The empirical studies in this thesis were based on a large and unique sample of 183 UK IPOs that floated on the London Stock Exchange during 1998–2003 and a control gr

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Balcombe, Paul. "Energy from microgeneration : sustainability and perceptions in the UK." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/energy-from-microgeneration-sustainability-and-perceptions-in-the-uk(2cd21d5b-0dd1-45cd-a94f-11328f05559f).html.

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The drive to meet climate change and energy security targets has led the UK government to incentivise microgeneration, with 2 GW now installed, the vast majority of which is solar PV. However, this only represents 0.2% of UK energy supply and greater uptake is not guaranteed since FIT rates were cut for solar PV in 2012, reducing the financial incentive to install. Thus, other consumer motivations must be focussed on by industry and the government in order to further increase uptake. Additionally, microgeneration may be able to contribute to a sustainable and reliable UK energy mix, but such a

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Pappas, Kostas. "Three essays on earnings management : evidence from the UK." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/three-essays-on-earnings-management-evidence-from-the-uk(65e2706f-8a79-4da9-a7f3-4faffb8d581e).html.

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In this thesis, I examine earnings management issues in the UK context. The thesis consists of three essays. The first chapter investigates whether managers base their trade-off decisions among real earnings management, accruals-based earnings management, and classification shifting, on the costs, constraints and timing of each strategy in the UK. The empirical evidence suggests that some, but not all, costs and constraints play a role in managers’ trade-off decisions. Further, contrasting between firms that are most likely to have manipulated earnings and firms that are not likely to have man

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Palmer, John B. "Galaxy redshifts from the UK Schmidt objective prism combinations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27163.

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In the last decade much work has been carried out in the development and use of the 44' objective prism of the UK Schmidt Telescope Unit (UKSTU) for the purpose of deriving redshifts of galaxies. The primary intention has been to obtain large numbers of moderately accurate redshifts for faint galaxies in order to probe the large scale spatial distribution of galaxies. The attainable accuracy with the 44' prism is such that supercluster sized structures can be resolved. In 1982 a new prism with a refracting angle of 13 2 1 was commissioned. On its own, or in combination with the old prism, this

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Chen, Jiaqi. "Liquidity, momentum and price bubbles : evidence from the UK." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3209.

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The asset pricing anomalies have existed in the UK stock market for a long time. This thesis aims to study different liquidity measures, liquidity commonality, systematic liquidity risk, different momentum trading strategies, asset pricing risks with momentum, investor behaviours with momentum and the causal link between financial crisis and asset pricing anomalies using various methods and tests. The first empirical chapter examines the performance of the standard Sharpe- Lintner CAPM, the Fama-French three factor model, and the four factor model of Carhart (1997) both with, and without, the

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FANTINI, Giulia. "Financial Derivatives usage by UK & Italian SMEs. Empirical evidence from UK & Italian non-financial firms." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2389056.

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A number of studies have examined the risk management practices within non-financial companies. This research is a comparative study of derivative usage among UK and Italian non-financial listed SMEs over the time period 2005-2012. The aspects it refers concern the management of financial risks which to date (in Italy) has been little studied from the point of view of literature because of the paucity of data. The aim of this research is to provide evidence for UK and Italian non-financial listed SMEs on the determinants of hedging and on the types of financial derivatives used as hedging inst

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Al-Hamadeen, Radhi Mousa. "Assurance of corporate stand-alone reporting : evidence from the UK." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/423.

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Ndoro, Girlie. "Executive compensation and firm performance : evidence from the UK charities." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12678/.

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The past two decades have seen extensive research on governance structures of the firm, executive compensation and performance. However, most of these studies are in the context of profit-making organisations with relatively very little attention being given to this subject in respect of non-profit making organisations. This study examines the determinants of executive compensation and firm performance in charities. Specifically this study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the main determinants of CEO compensation in the UK Charities? What performance measures do the UK Char

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Pechurina, Anna. "Creating a home from home : Russian communities in the UK." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525945.

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Woodhams, M. S. "Market efficiency and UK traded financial futures : evidence from LIFFE." Thesis, Swansea University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636686.

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The following study concentrates on applying a well developed financial hypothesis, the Efficient Market Hypothesis, to a series of recently developed and highly popular financial instruments. The objective is to provide a comprehensive testing methodology of UK traded financial derivatives to cover a range of frequencies seldom if ever covered in the literature. It is the extent of coverage of previously untested instruments that makes this study unique. The objective of the study is to examine financial futures series for up to ten years of data over a spectrum of frequencies from as high as

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Wood, Michelle H. "Organisation for innovation : evidence from the UK electronic components industry." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388153.

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Martiskainen, Mari. "Developing community energy projects : experiences from Finland and the UK." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51506/.

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Community energy has drawn interest from the general public, policy makers and researchers in the UK over the last few years. Community energy projects, such as energy saving measures and renewable energy projects, are usually organised by civil society groups rather than commercial businesses. This DPhil research approaches community energy as local grassroots innovation and compares its development in two different countries, Finland and the UK. Key research question is: Why and how do community energy projects develop and how do they contribute to niche development? The thesis uses Sustaina

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Parkinson, Tom. "Values of higher popular music education : perspectives from the UK." Thesis, University of Reading, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.762218.

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In the 23 years since the first undergraduate popular music degree programme opened in the United Kingdom, the academic discipline of popular music has burgeoned to encompass over 160 programmes delivered across the higher education sector, by private institutions, Royal-chartered conservatoires, post-92 universities and Russell Group universities. This doctoral research project seeks to understand the values underpinning and informing educational practice in this growing academic discipline. It proceeds from an understanding of higher education and popular music as two highly complex domains

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Sherif, Mohamed A. "Modelling consumption asset pricing models : empirical evidence from the UK." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633243.

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This thesis adopts a range of different methodologies in an attempt to evaluate the performance of consumption-based asset pricing models. In particular, it sets out to investigate the relationship between asset prices, consumption and investment decisions. Different utility functions are used in an attempt to examine their roles in pricing assets, reducing pricing errors and solving the equity premium puzzle. First considered is whether the value of relative risk aversion can be changed by using parametric tests and different utility functions. Whereas the power utility model introduces a bas

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Appiah, Kingsley O. "Corporate governance and corporate failure : evidence from listed UK firms." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13576.

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This study is motivated by the numerous reforms to strengthen the efficacy of corporate boards and their oversight committees, in the wake of high profile corporate failures. The empirical question, however, is whether recent proposals would enhance board and their committee effectiveness and in this way, reduce the likelihood of firm`s failure. This study examines whether the composition, structure and functions of corporate boards and their interactions are related to the probability of corporate failure. Prior studies employ agency and resource dependency theories in isolation as theoretica

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Morris, Jennifer Ellen. "Organically bound tritium in sediments from the Severn Estuary, UK." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/41353/.

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Amersham plc, now GE Healthcare, has discharged both organically bound tritium (OBT) and tritiated water (HTO) into the Severn estuary since 1981. The OBT component of these discharges results in elevated tritium (3H) activities in the sediments and biota of the estuary. A monthly sampling programme, covering February 2000 to May 2004, has provided the first detailed description of the spatial and temporal distribution of 3H activities in surface sediments from the estuary. Four sediment cores were also collected from salt marshes on the northern shore, to obtain longer term records of tritium

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Hutagaol, Yanthi. "IPO valuation and performance : evidence from the UK main market." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1674/.

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Selling stock to the general public is one important method by which firms are able to raise new equity capital. If the firm sells stock for the first time to the general public, it is called an initial public offering (IPO). Subsequent to the IPO, firms may seek to raise further equity capital by offering to sell new shares through a seasoned equity offering (SEO). In the UK, most young/small firms initially raise equity capital from a small number of investors through private placements. If a firm prospers and needs additional equity capital, it may choose at some point to go public by selli

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McKaig, Andrew J. "Are asset prices predictable? : evidence from the UK futures market." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1998. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU105678.

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The purpose of this thesis is to provide evidence on the predictability of asset prices: does it exist and what are its characteristics? Therefore processes underlying asset price behaviour are the central concern of this thesis. Utilising UK futures market data, initial time-series tests consider if, ex post, prices depart from random behaviour and if linkages exist between prices set in different markets. Results show that departures from randomness exist, namely, persistence and mean reversion, and suggest that prices in some markets may be used to forecast prices set in other markets. The

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Zhang, Qiantao. "Universities, knowledge networks, and regional competitiveness : perspectives from the UK." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/78321/.

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As the need for regions to convert knowledge within universities into industrial and commercial success is increasingly acknowledged in the knowledge-based economy, universities are no longer considered to be isolated islands of knowledge, but as institutions increasingly engaged with a range of external partners through various types of knowledge networks. Although studies have examined the importance of interactions between academics and businesses in building competitive advantages of regions, there has been much less work considering how the nature of interactions is associated with region

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Hu, Nan. "Media impacts on mergers and acquisitions : evidence from UK market." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11341/.

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This thesis examines the impact of financial media on UK merger and acquisition (M&A) deals from several perspectives. The Chapter 2 examines the impact of financial media on M&A performance using UK M&A data from 1981 to 2010. The results show that, both in the short run and long run, deals with media coverage outperform deals without media coverage. Moreover, the results indicate a significantly negative correlation between media pessimism and post-merger performance both in the short run and long run. These findings suggest that pre-merger news released by influential financial media has a

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Macaluso, Mariele <1990&gt. "Essays on Migration and Institutional Change: Evidence from the UK." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9477/1/Macaluso%20M.%2C%20PhD%20Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is composed by three chapter. The first chapter is a survey of the literature on the selection and the economic impact of migration in the destination countries. The first part provides a review of the theoretical literature on the determinants and the selectivity of migration by focusing on how immigrants self select with respect to unobservable or observable characteristics.The second part presents the literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives by taking into account the main theoretical models and discussing the challenges of the empirical ev

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Chow, William Kong Meng. "Can profitable trading strategies be derived from investment bestsellers?" Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367341.

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Neale, Klaire. "Mating interactions of the harmful dinoflagellate alexandrium tamarense from UK coastal waters." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2014. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/96wy3/mating-interactions-of-the-harmful-dinoflagellate-alexandrium-tamarense-from-uk-coastal-waters.

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The Alexandrium tamarense species complex is a group of economically and ecologically important marine dinoflagellates. The complex is comprised of three morphospecies A. tamarense, A. fundyense and A. catenella grouped according to ribosomal DNA or ‘ribotype’. There are five ribotype type groups (I-V) each consisting entirely of toxic or non-toxic isolates. Toxic isolates are associated with harmful algal blooms (HAB’s) due to their ability to produce powerful neurotoxins, which are responsible for outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning in areas of shellfish production. Sexual reproductio

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Mowjee, Tasneem. "NGO donor funding relationships : UK and EC funding for the humanitarian aid activities of UK NGOs from 1990-1997." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271289.

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Gertsch, Stefan. "Multifactor Stock Selection Strategies Evidence from France, Germany and the UK /." St. Gallen, 2006. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01650381002/$FILE/01650381002.pdf.

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Zhang, Xufei. "Exchange rates and exports : evidence from manufacturing firms in the UK." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28227/.

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The thesis examines the effect of exchange rate variability on firms' export decisions, using data for UK manufacturing firms. We separately investigate the relationship between the changes of level of exchange rate and exports and that between exchange rate uncertainty and exports. Our results show that export extensive margin is not significantly related to changes in the level of exchange rates, whereas exchange rates have a significant and negative impact on the export intensity. Since industry heterogeneity is important in the effect of exchange rate level changes, we further explore poss

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Kasseeah, Harshana. "Financing decisions and financial constraints : evidence from the UK and China." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10523/.

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Firms are the engines of growth in any economy. It is therefore important to study how they finance themselves, as this may have a direct impact on the overall growth rate of the economy. A firm can choose whether to finance its activities with equity, debt, or both. An optimal capital structure is that mix of internal and external finance (debt and/or equity) that optimizes the value of a firm. Therefore, the question of how to finance or equivalently from where to borrow becomes a crucial decision. In each chapter of this study, we study the financing decisions of a different set of firms fa

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Badreddine, Sina. "Sources and practicality of momentum profits : evidence from the UK market." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2066/.

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It is hard to believe that rewarding opportunities in a liberalised market are left unexploited by acquisitive market participants or even by proficient institutional investors. Notwithstanding this, the sources of momentum profits have been puzzling academics for many years. Therefore, the incentives for these rewarding opportunities remain an unresolved mystery long after the momentum phenomenon has been identified. The significance of the momentum phenomenon is reflected in the voluminous studies that investigate it. This thesis aims to investigate a number of issues surrounding the debate

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Garside, Ludivine. "Discretion in public enforcement : evidence from UK competition enforcement, 1970-2003." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573395.

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Applied to public enforcement, the concern for value for money in the public sector makes discretionary decision-making a target for reform. UK competition policy has already been reformed in favour of a more prohibitive legal regime. I isolate some discretionary features in the previous competition regime, and examine their consequences on decisions. Extant empirical competition studies rely on case-level analysis. To deepen the analysis, I disaggregate enforcement data at company level, on abuse of dominance cases published by the UK national competition authority, between 1970 and 2003. Eco

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Meng, Qingwei. "Corporate investment, financing and payout decisions : evidence from UK listed companies." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4062/.

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This thesis aims to contribute to the corporate finance literature by focusing on the interdependence of corporate investment, financing and payout decisions of UK-listed companies, within the period 1999-2008. After the introductory chapter, Chapter 2 critically reviews the existing literature on corporate investment, financing and payout policies. Chapter 3 investigates the interactions among the three corporate decisions. One of the key findings is that the three corporate decisions are likely to be jointly determined in the presence of financial constraints. The results also suggest that t

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Bilici, Ozgul. "International trade in a competitive world : empirical evidence from the UK." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16051/.

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This thesis aims to provide helpful insights into trade in goods and services. The first two chapters focus on the micro-level determinants of international trade in services in the UK: The aim of the first chapter is to investigate the determinants of trade in services in a gravity framework, considering both country- and firm-level factors. The second chapter investigates how the determinants of service trade vary along the distribution of trade value and how the firm-level characteristics influence the impact of typical gravity variables. The third chapter focuses on the UK's imports of goo

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Clatworthy, Mark Anthony. "Transnational equity analysis : evidence from UK investment analysts and institutional investors." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432665.

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This thesis responds to calls for research into transnational investment decisionmaking by institutional investors and investment analysts. This issue has assumed a growing significanceo ver recent decadesd ue to the internationalisationa nd institutionalisationo f equity markets. Transnationald ecision-makingp rocessesa re also of import to the debate on the harmonization of international accounting. Using a questionnaires urvey and semi-structuredin terviews, the thesis investigates three related issues. First, it examines and compares the analysis techniques used by UK analystsa nd fund man

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Sun, Ji. "Research on capital structure and financing decision : evidence from the UK." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7335/.

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This thesis focuses on whether the decisions of firms’ external financing activities are influenced by ownership structure, market timing, or public media in the UK context. Chapter 2 examines the effect of ownership on firm capital structure by using a universal sample of UK firms over the period 1998–2009. The empirical results show that the relation between managerial share ownership (MSO) and leverage level is non-monotonic. This study further investigates the effect of ownership on firm financial issuance activities. The finding suggests that firms with higher MSO are more likely to choos

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Sun, Xin. "Subordinated debt and market discipline : evidence from the UK banking industry." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7738/.

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This research empirically investigates how and to what extent bank subordinated debt plays a role in providing market discipline whereby the private sector is deployed to monitor and influence bank risk taking, hence complement government supervision and regulation of banks. The study comprises four essays on the use of subordinated debt as an instrument for creating direct and indirect market discipline, with specific reference to the case of the UK banking industry. Broadly, Chapters 2, 3 and 4 examine the effectiveness of subordinated debt as an instrument of direct market discipline; Chapt

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Enabulele, Egie Elisha. "Molecular and morphological identification of digeneans from Lymnaeidae in the UK." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/35056/.

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Many parasitic digeneans are of medical and veterinary importance and therefore developing methods to accurately identify them and understand their evolutionary epidemiology is crucial to disease diagnosis, surveillance and control. An integrative approach using molecular and morphological data was applied in investigating digenean species transmitted by lymnaeid snails in the UK. Radix auricularia, R. balthica, Lymnaea stagnalis and Stagnicola fuscus were identified by DNA sequencing of the ITS2 and cox1 genes. They were recorded to transmit a total of 13 digenean species belonging to six fam

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Marsden, Olivia Jayne. "Determination of actinide distributions in intertidal sediments from West Cumbria, UK." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2003. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675408.

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The distribution of a range of artificial radionuclides, derived from the authorised discharges of the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, have been determined in a core sampled from the intertidal sediments in the Esk Estuary. The plutonium-alpha activity profiles qualitatively resemble the Sellafield discharge histories for these isotopes, suggesting that the plutonium is largely immobile in the sediments. The beta-emitting 241Pu isotope activity profile was also determined for the sediments using the beta/alpha discriminator on a low-level liquid scintillation counter and qualitativ

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Wilcock, Cathy. "Building peace from diaspora : UK Sudanese opposition activists, peacebuilding and hybridity." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/building-peace-from-diaspora-uk-sudanese-opposition-activists-peacebuilding-and-hybridity(23b7ceaa-8f85-4123-bc48-ac3435eef2f2).html.

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This research is concerned with the problems and possibilities of combining diverse forms of peacebuilding in the same peacebuilding space. It analyses patterns of interaction between various forms of peacebuilding using a framework of hybridity. Within debates on peacebuilding hybridities, frictional encounters are situated between international peacebuilders and 'locals' who are predominantly conceptualised as domestic, indigenous and globally Southern. While enhancing understandings of local/international interactions, this conceptualisation excludes constituencies of locals who occupy glob

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Miles, Roger. "From compliance to coping : experiences of Chief Risk Officers in UK banks 2007-2009." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/from-compliance-to-coping(e2634d8e-1682-4790-8110-405b0ed2b359).html.

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Even without the pressures of a financial crisis, the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) in UK banks occupied a potentially conflicted role during 2007 - 9. The Boards of banks had created the CRO role with responsibility for managing commercial risk but also for producing public risk reports within a system of enforced self-regulation. Under this system, the regulator seeks to overcome control asymmetries by harnessing the governance resources of regulated organizations. Theoretical perspectives of regulation in action, informal groups in organizations, and individual risk perception, indicated that CR

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Hassanein, Ahmed. "Informativeness of unaudited forward-looking financial disclosure : evidence from UK narrative reporting." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5143.

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Forward-looking financial disclosure (FLFD) is potentially uninformative if it does not change from the previous year, especially after a significant change in firm performance. This study uses a sample of UK narrative statements of the annual reports over the period from 2005 to 2011. It employed the automated content analysis technique to measure change in FLFD over years to answer three research questions. First, to what extent does change in firms’ earnings performance drive managers to change FLFD over years? Second, what are the other drivers of the change of FLFD from year to year? Thir

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