Below are the most relevant publications our academic team have contributed to or written, separated by year of publication, as well as a list of all the books in the field of Accounting, Finance & Economics that we've contributed to.
2021
Chatziantoniou, I., Degiannakis, S., Filis, G. and Lloyd, T., 2021. Oil price volatility is effective in predicting food price volatility. Or is it? Energy Journal, 42 (6).
D’Urso, P., De Giovanni, L., Disegna, M., Massari, R. and Vitale, V., 2021. A Tourist Segmentation Based on Motivation, Satisfaction and Prior Knowledge with a Socio-Economic Profiling: A Clustering Approach with Mixed Information. Social Indicators Research, 154 (1), 335-360.
Gholami, Y., Mansouri, F. and Yazdifar, H., 2021. Analyzing the Relationship between Social and Professional Identity Characteristics of the Audit Committee and the Steering System on the Quality of Financial Reporting: A Legal Oriented Artificial Approach. International Journal of Finance and Managerial Accounting, 6 (21).
Liang, L., Alam, A., Sorwar, G., Yazdifar, H. and Eskandari, R., 2021. The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 163.
Nordberg, D., 2021. Who’s in charge, in whose interest? The experience of ownership and accountability in the charity sector. Management Research Review: Communication of emergent international management research, 44 (3), 460-476.
Parrilli, M.D. and Radicic, D., 2021. STI and DUI innovation modes in micro-, small-, medium- and large-sized firms: distinctive patterns across Europe and the U.S. European Planning Studies, 29 (2), 346-368.
Parrilli, M.D. (with Hervas JL and Sempere-Ripoll, F.), 2021. SME modes of innovation in European catching-up countries: The impact of STI and DUI drivers on technological innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (3*), 173.
Parrilli, M.D. (with Hervas JL, Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Sempere-Ripoll, F., 2021. The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU. RESEARCH POLICY (4*), 50 (9).
Shirzad, A., Saei, M.J. and Yazdifar, H., 2021. The Effect of Cost Categories and the Origin of their stickiness on Earnings Forecast: A Comparative Study. Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
Uddin, M., Alam, A., Yazdifar, H. and Shubita, M., 2021. Terrorism, innovation and venture capital. Journal of Economic Studies.
Zarei, H., Yazdifar, H. and Soofi, F., 2021. The perceived impact of working agreements toward employed female in the accounting profession: evidence from Iran. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 22 (2), 197-222.
Xu, L., Tani, M. and Zhu, Y., 2021. The impact of an underfunded migrant education policy: Evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Xu, L., and Speckesser, S. 2021. Return to apprenticeships: A comparison between existing apprentices and newly recruited apprentices.” with Stefan Speckesser. Oxford Economic Papers,
Xu, L., Luo, R., Teng, K. and Zhu, Z. 2021. Decomposition of Student Achievement Gap by Gender in China: The Roles of Hukou, School Quality and Own Effect International Journal of Educational Research, 2021.
2020
Abdou, H.A., Ellelly, N.N., Elamer, A.A., Hussainey, K. and Yazdifar, H., 2020. Corporate governance and earnings management nexus: Evidence from the UK and Egypt using neural networks. International Journal of Finance and Economics.
Alam, A., Uddin, M., Yazdifar, H., Shafique, S. and Lartey, T., 2020. R&D investment, firm performance and moderating role of system and safeguard: Evidence from emerging markets. Journal of Business Research, 106, 94-105.
Akanga, F., Tauringana, V. and Bongasu, S., 2020. An Empirical investigation into the Risk Management Strategies of MFIs in Cameroon. African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
Akinmade, B., Khorana, S. and Adedoyin, F.F., 2020. An assessment of United Kingdom's trade with developing countries under the generalised system of preferences. Journal of Public Affairs.
Ashar Asdullah, M. and Yazdifar, H., 2020. Book review: Effective Management Control; Theory and practice by Eric G. Flamholtz. Journal of Management and Research (JMR).
Booth, R. and Nordberg, D., 2020. Self or other: Directors’ attitudes towards policy initiatives for external board evaluation. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance.
Chowdhury, M., 2020. Using the method of normalisation for mapping group marks to individual marks: some observations. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 45 (5), 643-650.
Chu, T.T., Hölscher, J. and McCarthy, D., 2020. The impact of productive and non-productive government expenditure on economic growth: an empirical analysis in high-income versus low- to middle-income economies. Empirical Economics, 58 (5), 2403-2430.
Chu, T.T., Hölscher, J. and McCarthy, D., 2020. The impact of productive and non-productive government expenditure on economic growth: an empirical analysis in high-income versus low- to middle-income economies. Empirical Economics, 58 (5), 2403-2430.
D’Urso, P., Disegna, M. and Massari, R., 2020. Satisfaction and Tourism Expenditure Behaviour. Social Indicators Research, 149 (3), 1081-1106.
Escaith, H., Khorana, S. and Kerr, W., 2020. The Hidden Cost of Supply Chain Disruptions: Case Study of the UK’s Automotive Sector. SocioEconomic Challenges, 4 (3), 5-19.
Farajpour Haghighi, H. and Yazdifar, H., 2020. The effect of managers’ optimism on competitive strategy and final cost models. RELIGACIÓN. Journal of Social Sciences and humanities.
Frennhoff Larsén, M. and Khorana, S., 2020. Negotiating Brexit: A clash of approaches? Comparative European Politics, 18 (5), 858-877.
Gilani, P., Bolat, E., Nordberg, D. and Wilkin, C., 2020. Mirror, mirror on the wall: Shifting leader–follower power dynamics in a social media context. Leadership, 16 (3), 343-363.
Hölscher, J., 2020. European Monetary Union: Euro — Quo vadis? Wirtschaftsdienst, 100 (9), 651.
Kaur, S., Khorana, S. and Kaur, M., 2020. Is There Any Potential in Service Trade of South Asia? FOREIGN TRADE REVIEW, 55 (3), 402-417.
Kazempour, M., Kashanioour, M., Yazdifar, H. and Hamidizadeh, A., 2020. A framework for rating corporate social responsibility disclosure. Journal of Financial Accounting Research.
Khorana, S., Escaith, H., MacGregor, J., Vickers, B. and Ali, S., 2020. The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Commonwealth Trade, Recovery and Resilience. The Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics.
Khorana, S. and Martínez-Zarzoso, I., 2020. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY TRADE GOVERNANCE: FINDINGS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. Contemporary Economic Policy, 38 (2), 380-396.
Kirkpatrick, A.K. and Radicic, D. (2020), "Tax Planning Activities and Firm Value: A Dynamic Panel Analysis", Hasseldine, J. (Ed.) Advances in Taxation (Advances in Taxation, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 103-123.
Kotb, A., Elbardan, H. and Halabi, H., 2020. Mapping of internal audit research: a post-Enron structured literature review. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 33 (8), 1969-1996.
Le, T.H., Disegna, M. and Lloyd, T., 2020. National Food Consumption Patterns: Converging Trends and the Implications for Health. EuroChoices.
Lin, H., Lloyd, T. and McCorriston, S., 2020. An Odd Crisis: Covid-19 and UK Food Prices. EuroChoices, 19 (3), 42-48.
McCarthy, D. and Dragouni, M., 2020. Managerialism in UK business schools: capturing the interactions between academic job characteristics, behaviour and the ‘metrics’ culture. Studies in Higher Education.
Meara, K., Pastore, F. and Webster, A., 2020. The gender pay gap in the USA: a matching study. Journal of Population Economics, 33 (1), 271-305.
Mohamed, T., 2020. Tax minimisation and firm value with the moderating effect of corporate governance on UK’s FTSE 350. PhD Thesis. ֱ Business School.
Morakabati, Y., 2020. A question of confidence. Is tourism as vulnerable to civil unrest as we think? A comparative analysis of the impact of Arab Spring on total reserves and tourism receipts. International Journal of Tourism Research, 22 (2), 252-265.
Nasseri, A., Jamshidi, S., Yazdifar, H., Percy, D. and Alam, M.A., 2020. Evaluating the performances of over-the-counter companies in developing countries using a stochastic dominance criterion and a PSO-ANN hybrid optimization model. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 21 (3), 563-582.
Naeemi, S., Yazdifar, H. and Shafiei, H., 2020. Indicators for Adopting Management Accounting Innovations in times of Economic crisis. Journal of System Management, 6 (4), 49-68.
Noah, A.O., Adhikari, P., Ogundele, B.O. and Yazdifar, H., 2020. Corporate environmental accountability in Nigeria: an example of regulatory failure and regulatory capture. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 11 (1), 70-93.
Nordberg, D., 2020. Art in corporate governance: A Deweyan perspective on board experience. Philosophy of Management.
Onur, Ö. and Yazdifar, H., 2020. Assessing the Fraud Risk Factors in the Finance Statements with Benford's Law. Journal of Accounting and Taxation Studies.
Parrilli, M.D., Balavac, M. and Radicic, D., 2020. Business innovation modes and their impact on innovation outputs: Regional variations and the nature of innovation across EU regions. Research Policy, 49 (8).
Pastore, F., Webster, A. and Hope, K., 2020. Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean. International Journal of Tourism Research.
Safari Sarchah, F., Yazdifar, H. and Pifeh, A., 2020. Privatization, Changes in Management Accounting Practices and their impacts on Financial Performance – Evidence from Iran. Iranian Journal of Finance, 4 (3), 18-48.
Souza Piao, R., Ide, M.S., Scur, G., Campos-Silva4, W.L. and Khorana, S., 2020. Sustainable procurement practices in the Brazilian chemical industry context. Exacta, 18 (3), 583-602.
Yazdifar, H., 2020. Business Challenges and Opportunities, Management, Leadership and Innovations: Insights from Emerging Markets. Journal for Global Business Advancement.
Zarei, H., Yazdifar, H., Dahmarde Ghaleno, M. and azhmaneh, R., 2020. Predicting auditors' opinions using financial ratios and non-financial metrics: evidence from Iran. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 10 (3), 425-446.
2019
Alam, A., Uddin, M. and Yazdifar, H., 2019. Institutional determinants of R&D investment: Evidence from emerging markets. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 138, 34-44.
Alam, A., Uddin, M. and Yazdifar, H., 2019. Financing behaviour of R&D investment in the emerging markets: the role of alliance and financial system. R and D Management, 49 (1), 21-32.
Aragón Amonarriz, C., Iturrioz, C., Narvaiza, L. and Parrilli, M.D., 2019. The role of social capital in regional innovation systems: Creative social capital and its institutionalization process. Papers in Regional Science, 98 (1), 35-51.
Chowdhury, M., 2019. Self and Peer Assessment of Group Work in Higher Education: A Game Theoretic Analysis. Review of Behavioral Economics, 6 (2).
Chowdhury, M. and Radicic, D., 2019. Remittances and Asset Accumulation in Bangladesh: A Study Using Generalised Propensity Score. Journal of International Development, 31 (6), 475-494.
D’Ambrosio, A., Montresor, S., Parrilli, M.D. and Quatraro, F., 2019. Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: an empirical analysis of Spanish regions. Regional Studies, 53 (1), 6-16.
Djalilov, K. and Lam, T.N., 2019. Ownership, risk and efficiency in the banking sector of the ASEAN countries. Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks, 3 (2), 5-16.
D'Urso, P., De Giovanni, L., Disegna, M. and Massari, R., 2019. Fuzzy clustering with spatial–temporal information. Spatial Statistics, 30, 71-102.
Holscher, J., Postula, M., Alinska, A. and Klepacki, J., 2019. Correlation Between Fiscal Rules and Sustainable Development of the Visegrad Group Countries. PROBLEMY ZARZADZANIA-MANAGEMENT ISSUES, 17 (3), 33-53.
Holscher, J. and Howard-Jones, P., 2019. Does Accession to the European Union Affect Firms’ Productivity? IZA Policy Papers.
Khoo-Lattimore, C., Prayag, G. and Disegna, M., 2019. Me, My Girls, and the Ideal Hotel: Segmenting Motivations of the Girlfriend Getaway Market Using Fuzzy C-Medoids for Fuzzy Data. Journal of Travel Research, 58 (5), 774-792.
Kinnucan, H.W. and Lloyd, T., 2019. Forty Years of Price Transmission Research in the Food Industry: Insights, Challenges and Prospects: Comment. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70 (3), 874-879.
McCarthy, D., Wei, P., Homberg, F. and Tabvuma, V., 2019. Public service motivation in the Chinese public and private sectors. Evidence-based HRM, 9 (1), 1-17.
Mhanna, R., Blake, A. and Jones, I., 2019. Spreading tourists around host countries of mega sport events: A strategy to overcome overtourism in host cities. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 11 (5), 611-626.
Parrilli, M.D., Montresor, S. and Trippl, M., 2019. A new approach to migrations: communities-on-the-move as assets. Regional Studies, 53 (1), 1-5.
Parrilli, M.D., 2019. Clusters and internationalization: the role of lead firms’ commitment and RIS proactivity in tackling the risk of internal fractures. European Planning Studies, 27 (10), 2015-2033.
Rastogi, L., Yazdifar, H., Alam, A., Eskandari, R. and Bahloul, M.A., 2019. A review of the relationship between leadership style and innovation: Insights and directions for future research. Journal for Global Business Advancement, 12 (5), 625-647.
Safari Sarchah, F., Yazdifar, H. and Pifeh, A., 2019. The Effects of Intra- and Extra-Organizational Factors on Management Accounting Practices in the Privatization Processes: Evidence from Iran. International Journal of Finance and Managerial Accounting, 4 (15), 97-113.
Takeda, S., Disegna, M. and Yang, Y., 2019. Changes in Chinese work values: A comparison between the one-child, social reform and cultural revolution generations. Evidence-based HRM, 7 (1), 24-41.
Tauringana, V., Mbah, M. and Alexander, P., 2019. Interrogating the importance and awareness of NSS improvement initiatives: a case study of final-year undergraduate students. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43 (1), 58-78.
Uyar, A., Elbardan, H. and Yamen, A., 2019. Drivers of convergence/divergence of corporate governance codes of MENA countries. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 13 (3), 217-243.
Yazdifar, H., 2019. Preface. Journal for Global Business Advancement, 12 (5), 601-603.
Yazdifar, H., Askarany, D., Wickramasinghe, D., Nasseri, A. and Alam, A., 2019. The Diffusion of Management Accounting Innovations in Dependent (Subsidiary) Organizations and MNCs. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING, 54 (1).
Zeitoun, H., Nordberg, D. and Homberg, F., 2019. The dark and bright sides of hubris: Conceptual implications for leadership and governance research. Leadership, 15 (6), 647-672.
2018
Antonakakis, N., Cunado, J., Filis, G., Gabauer, D. and Perez de Garcia, F., 2018. Oil volatility, oil and gas firms and portfolio diversification. Energy economics, 70, 499-515.
Baines, D., Strickland-Hodge, B. and Kennedy, M.-C., 2018. Pharmacist Prescribing in England: Acting on History to Address Current Challenges in Pharmacy Practice. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research.
Baines, D.L., 2018. The Frontier Framework (and its eight Frontier Archetypes): A new conceptual approach to representing staff and patient well-being in health systems. Social Science and Medicine, 208, 98-106.
Bruwer J., Girish P., Disegna M. (2018) "Why Wine Tourists Visit Cellar Doors: Segmenting Motivation and Destination Image”. International Journal of Tourism Research, 20(3), 355-366.
D Ambrosio, A., Montresor, S., Parrilli, M.D. and Quatraro, F., 2018. Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: an empirical analysis of Spanish regions. Regional Studies, 1-11.
Degiannakis, S., Filis, G. and Hassani, H., 2018. Forecasting global stock market implied volatility indices. Journal of Empirical Finance, 46, 111-129.
Disegna, M., D'Urso, P. and Massari, R., 2018. Analysing cluster evolution using repeated cross-sectional ordinal data. Tourism management, 69, 524-536.
Hartwell, C., 2018. On the impossibility of central bank independence: four decades of time- (and intellectual) inconsistency. Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Hartwell, C.A., 2018. The "Hierarchy of Institutions" reconsidered: Monetary policy and its effect on the rule of law in interwar Poland. Explorations in Economic History.
Khoo-Lattimore C., Girish P., Disegna M. (2018) “Me, My Girls and the Ideal Hotel: Segmenting Motivations of the Girlfriend Getaway Market using Fuzzy C-Medoids for Fuzzy Data”. Journal of Travel Research, DOI:
Orlic, E., Hashi, I. and Hisarciklilar, M., 2018. Cross Sectoral FDI spillovers and their impact on manufacturing productivity. International Business Review.
Papanikolaou, N.I., 2018. To be bailed out or to be left to fail? A dynamic competing risks hazard analysis. Journal of Financial Stability, 34, 61-85.
Papanikolaou, N.I., 2018. A dual early warning model of bank distress. Economics Letters, 162, 127-130.
Piesse, J., Conradie, B., Thirtle, C. and Vink, N., 2018. Efficiency in wine grape production: comparing long-established and newly developed regions of South Africa. Agricultural Economics, 49 (2), 203-212.
Webster, A. and Piesse, J., 2018. Are Foreign-Owned Firms More Likely to Pay Bribes than Domestic Ones? Evidence from Emerging Markets. World Development, 101, 142-161.
Zalata, A.M., Tauringana, V. and Tingbani, I., 2018. Audit committee financial expertise, gender, and earnings management: Does gender of the financial expert matter? International Review of Financial Analysis, 55, 170-183.
2017
Akanga, F.K., 2017. Microfinance accountability in Cameroon: A cure or a curse for poverty alleviation? Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 13 (1), 112-130.
Ambroziak, A.A. and Hartwell, C.A., 2017. The impact of investments in special economic zones on regional development: the case of Poland. Regional Studies, 1-10.
Bwire, T., Lloyd, T. and Morrissey, O., 2017. Fiscal Reforms and the Fiscal Effects of Aid in Uganda. Journal of Development Studies, 53 (7), 1019-1036.
Degiannakis, S. and Filis, G., 2017. Forecasting oil price realized volatility using information channels from other asset classes. Journal of International Money and Finance, 76, 28-49.
Di Lascio, F.M.L. and Disegna, M., 2017. A copula-based clustering algorithm to analyse EU country diets. Knowledge-Based Systems, 132, 72-84.
Hassani, H., Ghodsi, Z., Gupta, R. and Segnon, M., 2017. Forecasting Home Sales in the Four Census Regions and the Aggregate US Economy Using Singular Spectrum Analysis. Computational Economics, 49 (1), 83-97.
Hassani, H., Silva, E.S., Antonakakis, N., Filis, G. and Gupta, R., 2017. Forecasting Accuracy Evaluation of Tourist Arrivals. Annals of Tourism Research, 63, 112-127.
Hassani, H., Silva, E.S. and Ghodsi, Z., 2017. Optimizing bicoid signal extraction. Mathematical Biosciences, 294, 46-56.
Hayward, R. and Hölscher, J., 2017. The Forward-Discount Puzzle in Central and Eastern Europe. Comparative Economic Studies, 59 (4), 472-497.
Hearn, B., Phylaktis, K. and Piesse, J., 2017. Expropriation risk by block holders, institutional quality and expected stock returns. Journal of Corporate Finance, 45, 122-149.
Hearn, B., Strang, R. and Piesse, J., 2017. Social elites on the board and executive pay in developing countries: Evidence from Africa. Journal of World Business, 52 (2), 230-243.
Kay, A. and Baines, D., 2017. Evolutionary approaches to the concept of drift in policy studies. Critical Policy Studies, 1-16.
Keshari, A., Mishra, N., Shukla, N., McGuire, S. and Khorana, S., 2017. Multiple order-up-to policy for mitigating bullwhip effect in supply chain network. Annals of Operations Research, 1-26.
Khorana, S., 2017. Mega‑regional trade Agreements: Costly distractions for developing countries? Journal of Economic Structures, 6-29.
Letza, S., 2017. Corporate governance and the African business context: the case of Nigeria. Economics and Business Review, 3 (17), 184-204.
Lloyd, T., 2017. Forty Years of Price Transmission Research in the Food Industry: Insights, Challenges and Prospects. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 68 (1), 3-21.
Silva, E.S., Ghodsi, Z., Ghodsi, M., Heravi, S. and Hassani, H., 2017. Cross country relations in European tourist arrivals. Annals of Tourism Research, 63, 151-168.
Tauringana, V., Radicic, D., Kirkpatrick, A. and Konadu, R., 2017. Corporate boards and environmental offence conviction: evidence from the United Kingdom. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 17 (2), 341-362.