Articles in "Public Policy"

Managerial identity formation in a public sector professional: an autobiographical account

This article discusses the formation of managerial identity within a public sector setting.

Updated: 02/11/2011
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Views: 1,055

The changing route to owner occupation: the impact of student debt

Author(s):

Mark Andrew

Topic:
Finance
Industry:
Public Policy

Using estimates from a housing tenure choice model, this paper conducts micro-simulation analyses to assess how this change could affect young adult homeownership transitions.

Updated: 24/10/2011
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Views: 994

Planning for housing in the post-Barker era: affordability, household formation, and tenure choice

Author(s):

Mark Andrew

Industry:
Public Policy

This paper examines the considerable fall in young adult homeownership rates in Britain since the early 1990s.

Updated: 24/10/2011
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Views: 779

Do entrepreneurship programmes raise entrepreneurial intention of science and engineering students? The effect of learning, inspiration and resources

The focus of this article is to examine the impact entrepreneurial education programmes have on raising the attitudes and intentions of students to go on and become entrepreneurs, setting up their own businesses.

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Views: 1,594

A step change in UK philanthropy

This paper proposes changes to the fiscal, legal and regulatory environment for individuals planning to give sums of £50,000 or more to charity.

Updated: 02/11/2011
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Views: 965

Measuring consumer vulnerability to perceived product-similarity problems and its consequences

This article investigates the impact consumers' perception of products, or perceived product-similarity (PPS), has on their purchasing habits and the ability of consumers to distinguish between established brands and look-a-likes.

Updated: 03/11/2011
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Views: 1,908

An economic evaluation of empirical exchange rate models

Author(s):

Lucio Sarno

Topic:
Finance
Industry:
Public Policy

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the short-horizon predictive ability of economic fundamentals and forward premia on monthly exchange rate returns in a framework that allows for volatility timing.

Updated: 27/10/2011
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Views: 801

Caution or activism? Monetary policy strategies in an open economy

Author(s):

Lucio Sarno

Topic:
Finance

We examine optimal policy in a two-country model with uncertainty and learning, where monetary policy actions affect the real economy through the real exchange rate channel.

Updated: 27/10/2011
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Views: 854

An economic evaluation of empirical exchange rate models

Author(s):

Lucio Sarno

Topic:
Finance

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the short-horizon predictive ability of economic fundamentals and forward premiums on monthly exchange-rate returns in a framework that allows for volatility timing.

Updated: 27/10/2011
Comments:
Views: 443