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Predictive Macro-Impacts of PLS-based Financial Conditions Indices: An Application to the USA (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Qin, D., & Wang, Q. C. Predictive Macro-Impacts of PLS-based Financial Conditions Indices: An Application to the USA. London

This investigation seeks to construct financial conditions indices (FCIs) by the partial least squares (PLS) method with the aims (i) that the FCIs should outperform interest rate, which is conventionally used in small VAR (Vector Auto-Regression) mo... Read More about Predictive Macro-Impacts of PLS-based Financial Conditions Indices: An Application to the USA.

Representing 'otherness' in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video-films (2016)
Journal Article
Jelowski, A., & Thomas, M. W. (2017). Representing 'otherness' in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video-films. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(1), 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1241704

This article focuses on the recent phenomenon of Ethiopian films that prominently feature Chinese characters. As the success of these films relies on representing a stereotypical Chinese ‘Other’, and in reference to China’s ever-growing presence in A... Read More about Representing 'otherness' in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video-films.

Bringing production and employment back into development: Alice Amsden’s legacy for a new developmentalist agenda (2016)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Chang, H.-J. (2017). Bringing production and employment back into development: Alice Amsden’s legacy for a new developmentalist agenda. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 10(1), 173-187. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsw029

Building on Alice Amsden’s legacy, the article criticises the currently dominant view of development for its neglect of production and employment. To remedy its shortcomings, the article introduces a new theoretical synthesis that sees development as... Read More about Bringing production and employment back into development: Alice Amsden’s legacy for a new developmentalist agenda.

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work (2016)
Book
Liu, J. (2016). Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and com... Read More about Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work.

Hittite Scribal Culture and Syria: Palaeography and Cuneiform Transmission (2016)
Book Chapter
Weeden, M. (2016). Hittite Scribal Culture and Syria: Palaeography and Cuneiform Transmission. In D. Shibata, & S. Yamada (Eds.), Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC – I Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions (159-193). Harrassowitz. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77050.14

Article addressing the question of the cuneiform palaeography of clay tablets belonging to foreign scribal traditions found at the site of Boğazköy/Hattusa. The article argues for consideration not just of the time when particular sign-forms were int... Read More about Hittite Scribal Culture and Syria: Palaeography and Cuneiform Transmission.

Social Media and Branding in Asia: Threats and Opportunities (2016)
Book Chapter
Abosag, I., Martin, F., & Zahy, R. (2016). Social Media and Branding in Asia: Threats and Opportunities. In T. C. Melewar, B. Nguyen, & D. Schultz (Eds.), Asia Branding: Connecting Brands, Consumers and Companies. Palgrave Macmillan

Social media includes Western and Asian platforms. Asian consumers perceive, feel and behave according to their own cultural values and these drive their attitudes within social media with significant implications for branding and brand relationship... Read More about Social Media and Branding in Asia: Threats and Opportunities.

Understanding Online Brand Relationships in Western Asia: The Case of Lebanon and Saudi Arabia (2016)
Book Chapter
Ramadan, Z., & Abosag, I. (2016). Understanding Online Brand Relationships in Western Asia: The Case of Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. In T. C. Melewar, B. Nguyen, & D. Schultz (Eds.), Asia Branding: Connecting Brands, Consumers and Companies. Palgrave Macmillan

Online brand relationship development in West Asia is still a nascent field brands still did not master. While online brand relationships are becoming a key focus point for brands, brand communities embedded in social networking sites are still under... Read More about Understanding Online Brand Relationships in Western Asia: The Case of Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

Consumer Protection in Turkey: Law, Informality and the Role of the Media (2016)
Report
Creutzfeldt, N., Mahy, P., Kazaz, J., Caliskan, E., & Lu, Y. Y. Consumer Protection in Turkey: Law, Informality and the Role of the Media

This report is part of a University of Oxford John Fell funded collaborative project:Informality and the Media in Consumer Protection in Emerging Economies. This pilot project seeks to shed light upon consumer complaint behaviour through social media... Read More about Consumer Protection in Turkey: Law, Informality and the Role of the Media.

State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security (2016)
Book
Long, R. D., Singh, G., Samad, Y., & Talbot, I. (Eds.). State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696904

Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian cli... Read More about State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security.

Structural cycles and industrial policy alignment: the private–public nexus in the Emilian Packaging Valley (2016)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Frattini, F., & Prodi, G. (2017). Structural cycles and industrial policy alignment: the private–public nexus in the Emilian Packaging Valley. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43(3), 881-904. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew048

The article investigates changes in the interaction between business organisations, local governments and public technology intermediaries resulting from business organisations’ shifts towards higher-value product segment opportunities. Specifically,... Read More about Structural cycles and industrial policy alignment: the private–public nexus in the Emilian Packaging Valley.

Pluralist Partially Comprehensive Doctrines, Moral Motivation, and the Problem of Stability (2016)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2017). Pluralist Partially Comprehensive Doctrines, Moral Motivation, and the Problem of Stability. Res Publica, 23(4), 409-429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-016-9335-0

Recent scholarship has drawn attention to John Rawls’s concern with stability—a concern that, as Rawls himself notes, motivated Part III of A Theory of Justice and some of the more important changes of his political turn. For Rawls, the possibility o... Read More about Pluralist Partially Comprehensive Doctrines, Moral Motivation, and the Problem of Stability.