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The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption: A World-Systems and Input-Output Approach (2014)
Journal Article
Prell, C., Feng, K., Sun, L., Geores, M., & Hubacek, K. (2014). The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption: A World-Systems and Input-Output Approach. Social Forces, 93(1), 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sou048

Although research has shown that countries’ world-systems position can predict levels of pollution and wealth, there has been little research looking at how consumption in the core triggers both pollution and wealth elsewhere in the world-economy. In... Read More about The Economic Gains and Environmental Losses of US Consumption: A World-Systems and Input-Output Approach.

Granular Institutional Investors and Global Market Interdependence (2014)
Journal Article
Jinjarak, Y., & Zheng, H. (2014). Granular Institutional Investors and Global Market Interdependence. Journal of International Money and Finance, 46, 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2014.03.007

We study the propagation of global investment risk across markets through the granular view of institutional investors. Applying the conditional value-at-risk estimation to micro-level weekly observations of international mutual funds between 2003 an... Read More about Granular Institutional Investors and Global Market Interdependence.

Review of: The Spirit of Corporate Law – Core Princi- ples of Corporate Law in Continental Europe by Günther H. Roth and Peter Kindler. Beck – Hart – Nomos, 2013. (2014)
Journal Article
Mucciarelli, F. Review of: The Spirit of Corporate Law – Core Princi- ples of Corporate Law in Continental Europe by Günther H. Roth and Peter Kindler. Beck – Hart – Nomos, 2013. European Business Organization Law Review, 15(3), 443-445. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1566752914001219

The book rests upon a fundamental criticism of what the authors hold as the core tenet of both UK and American corporate law, namely the ‘freedom of con- tract theory’, according to which company law is a mechanism aimed at facilitating contractual r... Read More about Review of: The Spirit of Corporate Law – Core Princi- ples of Corporate Law in Continental Europe by Günther H. Roth and Peter Kindler. Beck – Hart – Nomos, 2013..

Understanding the precariat through labour and work (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). Understanding the precariat through labour and work. Development and Change, 45(5), 963-980. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12120

This article sets out a framework for analysing the globalizing labour process, arguing that the old dualisms of ‘capital’ versus ‘labour’ and ‘formal sector’ versus ‘informal sector’ are inadequate and unhelpful. It begins by making conceptual disti... Read More about Understanding the precariat through labour and work.

The Financialization of Water (2014)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K. (2014). The Financialization of Water. Review of Radical Political Economics, 14(3), 292-307. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613413506076

This paper aims to locate developments in water delivery within broader financialization trends by considering three aspects of water management. First, despite clear failings of privatization over the past twenty years, state support for the private... Read More about The Financialization of Water.

Palestinian Refugees. Homes in exile (2014)
Journal Article
Salih, R. (2014). Palestinian Refugees. Homes in exile. OpenDemocracy (London. Online),

The pertinent question today is what kind of "politics of return" could grant Palestinians the right to self-determination and simultaneously counter the exclusionary politics towards Palestinian refugees of both Arab nation-states and of the Palesti... Read More about Palestinian Refugees. Homes in exile.

Vertical bargaining and countervailing incentives (2014)
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Iozzi, A., & Valletti, T. (2014). Vertical bargaining and countervailing incentives. American economic journal. Microeconomics, 6(3), 106-135. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.6.3.106

We study a set of bilateral Nash bargaining problems between an upstream input supplier and several differentiated but competing retailers. If one bilateral bargain fails, the supplier can sell to the other retailers. We show that, in a disagreement,... Read More about Vertical bargaining and countervailing incentives.

Backshoring, local sweatshop regimes and CSR in India (2014)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2014). Backshoring, local sweatshop regimes and CSR in India. Competition & Change, 18(4), 327-344. https://doi.org/10.1179/1024529414Z.00000000064

Deploying an approach to chain analysis concerned with regional differentiation and backshoring, this article investigates the regional complexities of the garment commodity chain in India and its multiple local sweatshop regimes to illustrate the li... Read More about Backshoring, local sweatshop regimes and CSR in India.