Outputs (89)

R and D and CEO departure date: do financial incentives make CEO’s more opportunistic? (2017)
Journal Article
Driver, C., & Guedes, M. J. C. (2017). R and D and CEO departure date: do financial incentives make CEO’s more opportunistic?. Industrial and Corporate Change, 26(5), 801-820. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtx009

The purpose of this article is to examine whether Research and Development (R&D) expenditure is biased downward because of self-serving behavior of highly incentivized managers. This offers an insight into the general relationship between incentives... Read More about R and D and CEO departure date: do financial incentives make CEO’s more opportunistic?.

Advertising's Elusive Economic Rationale: Public Policy and Taxation (2015)
Journal Article
Driver, C. (2015). Advertising's Elusive Economic Rationale: Public Policy and Taxation. Journal of Economic Surveys, 31(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12122

Advertising and its effects have been debated for well over a century. In the last fewdecades a generally sceptical view of the benefits of advertising has been overturned by a series ofacademic advances in economics that detail a variety of ways in... Read More about Advertising's Elusive Economic Rationale: Public Policy and Taxation.

Corporate Investment during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from China (2014)
Journal Article
Bo, H., Driver, C., & Lin, H.-C. M. (2014). Corporate Investment during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from China. International Review of Financial Analysis, 35(2014), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2014.07.002

China’s growth model suggests that the 2008 financial crisis may have affected the Chinese economy differently from what one observes in mature market economies. In this paper, we examine how Chinese corporate investment responded to the financial cr... Read More about Corporate Investment during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from China.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Williamson, J., Driver, C., & Kenway, P. (2014). Introduction. In J. Williamson, C. Driver, & P. Kenway (Eds.), Beyond Shareholder Value: the reasons and choices for corporate governance reform (6-15). TUC

Beyond Shareholder Value: the reasons and choices for corporate governance reform (2014)
Book
Williamson, J., Driver, C., & Kenway, P. (Eds.). (2014). Beyond Shareholder Value: the reasons and choices for corporate governance reform. TUC

Evidence Paper 8: Capital Investment: what are the main long-term trends in relation to UK manufacturing businesses, and how do these compare internationally? (2013)
Other
Driver, C., & Temple, P. (2013). Evidence Paper 8: Capital Investment: what are the main long-term trends in relation to UK manufacturing businesses, and how do these compare internationally?. London

This is one of the 37 peer-reviewed commissioned papers that informed the Foresight Future of Manufacturing project. This paper provides background information to help with policy choices in respect of manufacturing investment. It is organised in fou... Read More about Evidence Paper 8: Capital Investment: what are the main long-term trends in relation to UK manufacturing businesses, and how do these compare internationally?.

On the use of cross-sectional measures of forecast uncertainty (2013)
Journal Article
Driver, C., Trapani, L., & Urga, G. (2013). On the use of cross-sectional measures of forecast uncertainty. International Journal of Forecasting, 29(3), 367-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2012.11.005

The Unbalanced Economy: A Policy Appraisal (2012)
Book
Driver, C., & Temple, P. (2012). The Unbalanced Economy: A Policy Appraisal. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271792

During the 1980s Britain became one of the world's most market-oriented economies, an approach which resulted in three severe recessions and a deepening degree of inequality. This book argues that a rebalancing of the economy will remain elusive unti... Read More about The Unbalanced Economy: A Policy Appraisal.

Research and Development, Cash Flow, Agency and Governance: UK large companies (2012)
Journal Article
Driver, C., & Guedes, M. J. C. (2012). Research and Development, Cash Flow, Agency and Governance: UK large companies. Research Policy: Policy, management and economic studies of science, technology and innovation, 41(9), 1565-1577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2012.04.003

This paper investigates the determinants of R&D expenditure using a sample of UK listed companies with the highest spend from 2000 to 2005. We investigate the effect of corporate governance and ownership on R&D, using panel data. The results provide... Read More about Research and Development, Cash Flow, Agency and Governance: UK large companies.

Governance, Innovation and Finance (2012)
Book Chapter
Driver, C. (2012). Governance, Innovation and Finance. In T. Clarke, & D. Branson (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Corporate Governance (496-519). SAGE Publications