605 datasets found

Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi has started digital initiatives from time to time. In the last few years, we can see that a kind of digital revolution has...

France was the first country to introduce the Goods and Services Tax or GST. Currently, nearly 160 countries have imposed GST/VAT in some form or the other. Some countries have...

The scope of the Indian Constitution is very vast. It includes economic, social, political, as well as all aspects necessary to run the country. The Indian Constitution promises...

This project aims to create a more academic analysis, building on existing practitioner and professional literature, of the merits and de-merits of FRSSE (Financial Reporting...

Financial markets might seem to be a subject matter appropriate only for economists, or perhaps also for behavioural finance specialists, who draw upon psychology to analyze...

Film and Television industries tend to cluster in a very small number of places around the world, moreover, they appear to be rooted to these places. These locales tend to be...

This project will examine how the development of technological capability in Chinese firms is affected by the type of ownership and by the structures of corporate governance....

The aim of this project is to examine the development of competition in domestic electricity supply in the UK following the opening to supply competition in May 1999. This will...

Whenever a group of agents interact a leader-follower relationship almost always emerges. To understand, therefore, how leadership emerges is fundamental in analysing strategic...

There is a hot debate on the advantages of different initial public offerings (IPOs) mechanisms. In her PhD thesis, the award holder examined two different mechanisms used for...

Research in social sciences has increasingly highlighted the importance of envy and related social preferences (such as fairness, reciprocity and inequality aversion) in...

The aim is to forecast the chief components of inflation (such as changes in fuel prices, food prices and prices of durable goods) for the USA, UK and South Africa, and to test...

The main objective of this research project is to understand how people negotiate and what aspects of the situation they use as an aid to reach an agreement. Any aspect of a...

The project responds to the current UK Government strategy for the third sector where there is an evidence gap in relation to understanding the size and characteristics of...

The purpose of share option grants is to align the interests of managers with those of shareholders. However, share option compensation may encourage opportunistic managerial...

In 1991, the Indian economy underwent major economic reforms, after several decades of following an inward looking development strategy. This project will examine whether the...

Tax incentives to encourage retirement saving in the UK are relatively complex and have changed frequently. The research will investigate how these facts affect individual and...

This project aims to use and extend a novel and remarkably comprehensive dataset on food retailing to analyse new questions regarding firms' pricing behaviour at a highly...

Prospering, internationally competitive small firms are crucial for the UK and its regions' economic and social well being. Yet there are widespread and longstanding concerns...

Project 1: Cheating We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use...