Browsing Trinity Business School (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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The Irish Economy: Three Strikes and You're Out?
(2011)We examine the three interlinked Irish crises : the competitiveness, fiscal and banking crises, showing how all three combined to lay a lethal trap for Ireland. Starting from a point of economic balance, a series of poor ... -
Robust Global Stock Market Interdependencies
(Elsevier, 2011)In this paper, we examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the European stock markets. Our findings ... -
The Effect of Gender on Stock Price Reaction to the Appointment of Directors: The Case of the FTSE 100
(2011)We examine the effect of the appointment of directors on the share price of FTSE companies. We find that the share price reaction to the appointment of Directors suggests that gender is not an issue in the appointment of ... -
Ascribed Versus Achieved Social Status of CEOs and its Relationship with M&A Activities
(2011)Using a sample of CEOs of FTSE companies during a ten-year period from 2001 to 2010, we explore merger and acquisition activities from the perspective of social status theory. It investigates the influence of CEO social ... -
Is Wine a Premier CRU Investment?
(2011)We investigate the case for Bordeaux and Rhone wine as an investment. The raw data analysed comprises of approx. 335,000 observations of wine sales prices and is analysed using the repeat sales regression method. General ... -
Global Stock Market Interdependencies and long-term Portfolio Diversification
(2011)In this paper, we examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the European stock markets. Our findings ... -
Systems Theory in Housing
(Elsevier, 2011)Systems theory in housing has had a long and varied history. From the early applications of systems theory to town planning, to more recent forays into complex adaptive systems approaches, theories of housing have built ... -
Motorcycling Edgework: A Practice Theory Perspective
(2011)In an effort to elucidate a deep understanding of the experience of dangerous motorcycling behaviour, we employ a practice theory perspective, drawing out connections between the practice, the consumption of objects, and ... -
What Do Academics (Think) They Know About Gold?
(London Bullion Market Association, 2011)A short paper for the LBMA trade newspaper "The Alchemist" this gives a very brief and thus easily accessible survey of some recent academic findings on gold. -
Hedges and Safe Havens An Examination of Stocks, Bonds, Oil, Gold and the Dollar
(2011)We investigate five major financial asset classes, examining how and under what circumstances each may act as a hedge or a safe haven to each other. Using the approach of Baur and Lucey (2010) and Baur and McDermott (2010) ... -
Real Estate and the Stock Market: A Meta?Regression Analysis
(2011)The real estate finance literature provides diverse and contradictory findings regarding the relationship between the real estate market and the stock market. Despite the importance of this relationship to the economy in ... -
Gravity and Culture in Foreign Portfolio Investment
(2011)Using panel regression estimates from the IMF?s CPIS survey of foreign debt and equity portfolios across 174 originating and 50 destination countries from 2001 to 2007, we clarify the role of culture and extend the set of ... -
Ranking Universities Based on Performance Evaluation by a Hybrid MCDM Model
(2012)The aims of this study are to weight the performance evaluation indices for higher education based on the official performance evaluation structure developed by the Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association (TWAEA) and ... -
On the road to performance governance in the public domain?
(2012)Structured Abstract: Purpose ? This article assesses how performance management in the public domain has evolved over the last several years both in terms of theory and practice in selected countries. The paper also acts ... -
A Network Hierarchical Feedback System for Taiwanese Universities based on the Integration of Total Quality Management and Innovation
(Elsevier, 2012)An increasing number of Taiwanese universities are improving operational performance through innovation and total quality management (TQM). In addition, the National Quality Award (NQA), which is based on TQM, is now used ... -
Innovation in Complex Public Service Systems
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Do Financial Reporting and Audit Quality Support Economic Growth and Development? A Post-Modernist Re-interpretation
(University of Nis, 2013)It is generally accepted, nowadays, that reliable financial information is a prerequisite of a robust market economy and efficient public sector. This position has been strengthened by the recent financial crisis, where ... -
Elucidating a Theory of Practice for Consumer Research
(2013)By addressing current conceptualizations of practice within consumer research, we suggest an alternative theory of practice that embraces subjective, context specific accounts of consumption. This alternative theory allows ...