An investigation into the formation and nature of entrepreneurial teams within the video games industry
United Kingdom
Tax related behaviour and corporate responsibility
Many companies engage in behaviour that is intended to reduce, mitigate or avoid the amount of taxation that would otherwise be due. This behaviour may result in changes to the tax code of a country and in comments being made and actions undertaken by governments, academics and other interested parties. This thesis argues that there exists a lack o...
Coastal land use conflict identification in a nature reserve: exploration of participatory GIS techniques
Public participation is increasingly encouraged in decision-making as part of a growing shift from government to governance. Participatory GIS is an approach to public participation that relies on ma ps and focuses on community inclusion. Attractive but frag ile ecosystems, coastal urban areas are currently under pressure from climate change-induce...
The use of quantitative measures of performance : a comparative study of the public sectors in the UK and Ireland
The responsibilities of the state increased hugely over the course of the 20th century and this resulted in a massive expansion in state expenditure. However, from the 1970s onwards, there was a questioning of the role of the state in a modem society. This questioning was given the name 'New Public Management' (NPM); with one of the key changes bro...
Essays on the applications of distributional scaling in finance : estimation, forecasting and inference
This thesis addresses some of the current gaps in the literature on unifractal and multifractal processes in finance, through a combination of empirical and theoretical contributions spanning the key problems of estimation, forecasting and inference. In Chapter 2 a new method is proposed for producing density forecasts for daily financial returns f...
Conservation, conflict and costs : living with large mammals in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India
Human-wildlife conflict is a growing obstacle to biodiversity conservation, while the resulting consequences continue to hamper sustainable development. The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats in South India, characterises a mosaic of land use and biodiversity conservation, human privilege and poverty, and is a case-study for a wide rang...
Complex multilateralism in global economic governance : the case of India, South Africa and the G20
United Kingdom
Financial system development in central and Eastern Europe: time for equity culture?
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The interaction between equity and credit risks
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An econometric investigation of the relationship between the price of oil and U.K. macroeconomic performance
United Kingdom
