Month: July 2019
Student voice at the ‘heart of learning’
What, if anything, can listening to student voice tell us about young people’s perception of their educational experiences…
Tolstoy’s thinking on teaching and learning
Graham Robertson discusses educational writings and teaching experiences of the 19th-Century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy is known…
Bank liquidity and the cost of debt
Since the 2007–09 crisis, tougher bank liquidity regulation has been imposed which aims to ensure banks can survive a…
Empire and Aftermath
Clifford Ando re-frames the issue of beginnings and endings by reexamining “decline and fall” in the works of…
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Clifford Ando discusses how early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capacity to…
The political economy of religion in the early Roman empire.
Cities in the ancient world extracted a great deal of wealth from their hinterlands and often claimed a…
Does lender type matter for the pricing of loans?
Loan markets often contain lenders with contrasting business models and ownership structures. But does that matter for outcomes in…
Do Highly Unionized Companies Compensate Their CEOs Less in Periods of Financial Distress?
Umar Boodoo discusses the strategic interaction between employee stakeholders, in particular labor unions, and top management, and he evaluates…
Relative income, absolute income and the life satisfaction of older adults
Umar Boodoo discusses life‐satisfaction of older adults using a representative sample of Canadian individuals aged 45+. Publication
Do Clean Energy Infrastructure Shares Make Financial Sense?
Despite supportive government policies and rapid technological improvements, the participation of institutional investors in the clean energy sector…
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