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The International Activities of Chinese Banks (2025)
Thesis
Surina. (2025). The International Activities of Chinese Banks [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596785

Based on macro and micro perspectives, this study is a pioneering effort to study the impact of banking international activities in the Chinese banking sector. It empirically investigated this issue by focusing on the following three themes.
First,... Read More about The International Activities of Chinese Banks.

e-HRM in Action: The Relationship Between Employee Behaviours and Perceived Organisational Success – A Comparative Study Between Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom (2025)
Thesis
Alabood, A. A. (2025). e-HRM in Action: The Relationship Between Employee Behaviours and Perceived Organisational Success – A Comparative Study Between Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00552769

The new normal, with massive technological advancements, has ushered in a situation where managing employee behaviour has become increasingly challenging. Rapid changes in the workplace have made the matters more complex. With the widespread adoption... Read More about e-HRM in Action: The Relationship Between Employee Behaviours and Perceived Organisational Success – A Comparative Study Between Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.

LiT: limit order book transformer (2025)
Journal Article
Xiao, Y., Ventre, C., Wang, Y., Li, H., Huan, Y., & Liu, B. (2025). LiT: limit order book transformer. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 8, 1616485. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1616485

While the transformer architecture has demonstrated strong success in natural language processing and computer vision, its application to limit order book forecasting, particularly in capturing spatial and temporal dependencies, remains limited. In t... Read More about LiT: limit order book transformer.

How does credit information sharing shape the cyclicality of bank liquidity creation? (2025)
Journal Article
Ighedosa, J., Murinde, V., & Lawal, T. (2025). How does credit information sharing shape the cyclicality of bank liquidity creation?. The Financial Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.70029

We investigate the effect of credit information sharing in the banking sector on the fluctuations of bank liquidity creation over the business cycle. Using the Berger and Bouwman comprehensive measure of bank liquidity creation and data representing... Read More about How does credit information sharing shape the cyclicality of bank liquidity creation?.

Coordinating banking regulations and green transition: The Turkish experience (2025)
Book Chapter
Coban, M. K. (2025). Coordinating banking regulations and green transition: The Turkish experience. In N. Behnke, & B. Petersohn (Eds.), Horizontal Intergovernmental Coordination at Local and Regional Levels: Evidence from Europe and Beyond (pp. 411-421). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83567-4_22

Green transition poses non-negligible financial and coordination challenges. These challenges are more acute in major developing countries, where policy capacity deficiencies and limited financial resources are more pronounced. This chapter examines... Read More about Coordinating banking regulations and green transition: The Turkish experience.

Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions Between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda (2025)
Journal Article
Dasi Mariani, R., Rosati, F. C., & Scaramozzino, P. (2025). Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions Between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda. The Journal of Development Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2555187

Refugees are mainly hosted in low-income countries, where they often remain for a long time. Therefore, it is important to assess whether they can integrate with the local economy, and whether their presence can contribute to the transition to a more... Read More about Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions Between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda.

Policy advice and capacity (2025)
Book Chapter
Bali, A. S., & Coban, M. K. (2025). Policy advice and capacity. In M. Howlett, & I. Mukherjee (Eds.), Handbook of Policy Advice (pp. 146-158). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318087.00018

Policy advice is understood as the production of knowledge about public policy problems and how those can be ameliorated. Policy advice, however, is intricately linked with the capacity or the skills and competencies of public actors. This chapter fo... Read More about Policy advice and capacity.

Cross-border banking and the transmission of global shocks to credit cycles in developing economies: A commodity price cycles channel (2025)
Journal Article
Bationo, F. d. B., Murinde, V., & Soumaré, I. (2025). Cross-border banking and the transmission of global shocks to credit cycles in developing economies: A commodity price cycles channel. International Review of Financial Analysis, 106, 104515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104515

The literature on the transmission of global credit market shocks to credit cycles in developing countries emphasizes the role of cross-border banking, but it seems to sidestep the important role of commodity trade. To address the gap, we hypothesize... Read More about Cross-border banking and the transmission of global shocks to credit cycles in developing economies: A commodity price cycles channel.

Corporate Disclosure During COVID-19: A Close Reading and Discourse Analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Lawal, T. (2025). Corporate Disclosure During COVID-19: A Close Reading and Discourse Analysis. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906251358385

We conduct a close reading and micro-level analysis of a market update released by Restaurant Group Plc, a UK leisure firm, during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine its communication functions. While the market update aligns with communicative action... Read More about Corporate Disclosure During COVID-19: A Close Reading and Discourse Analysis.

Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt (2025)
Journal Article
Kling, G., Lo, Y. C., Murinde, V., & Volz, U. (2025). Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt. Oxford Open Economics, 4, odaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/ooec/odaf003

We present the first systematic investigation of the impact of climate vulnerability on the cost of sovereign debt using a sample of 46 developing and advanced countries from 1996-2016. We find that a subgroup of 25 developing countries with higher e... Read More about Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt.

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary (2025)
Journal Article
Apaydin, F., Piroska, D., & Coban, M. K. (2025). Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary. Competition and Change. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251361208

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically control credit allocation. We argue that both leaders have instrumentalized the banking s... Read More about Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary.

A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey (2025)
Journal Article
Coban, M. K., & Yesilkagit, K. (2025). A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey. Policy Studies, 1-26. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2530057

The rise of populism and the authoritarian shift has triggered a debate on the politics-administration nexus with a focus on the politics of democratic backsliding and the role of the bureaucracy. Recent studies have increasingly concentrated on the... Read More about A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey.

A Job-Based Assessment fo Economic Complexity: From Hidden to Revealed (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Russo, A., Scaramozzino, P., & Zaccaria, A. (2025). A Job-Based Assessment fo Economic Complexity: From Hidden to Revealed. arXiv. Physics and Society, General Economics, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.05846

Economic complexity measures aim to quantify the capability content or endowment of industries and territories; however, capabilities are not observable, and therefore cannot be directly used in the computations. We estimate such endowments by quanti... Read More about A Job-Based Assessment fo Economic Complexity: From Hidden to Revealed.

‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe (2025)
Journal Article
Aceska, A., Bryce, D., & Causevic, S. (2025). ‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 32(4), 443-456. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764251333755

The European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) are in a continuous struggle to identify the internal ‘Europeanness’ of their narratives, borders, boundaries, and regions. Since the 1980s, they introduced numerous cultural policies and heritage i... Read More about ‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Regole e discrezione: l’asimmetria istituzionale di una politica monetaria ‘ritrovata’ (2025)
Book Chapter
Scaramozzino, P., & Imbriani, C. (2025). Regole e discrezione: l’asimmetria istituzionale di una politica monetaria ‘ritrovata’. In G. Coppola, R. Dell'Anno, F. Mazzotta, & L. Parisi (Eds.), Macroeconomia, Istituzioni, Diseguaglianze e Sviluppo (pp. 55-71). ESI Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. https://www.edizioniesi.it/pubblicazioni/libri/economia_geografia_economica_finanza_-_1/economia_del_mercato_finanziario_-_1_-_08/macroeconomia-istituzioni-diseguaglianze-sviluppo.html

Can Big Tech be tamed? The struggle to regulate AI (2025)
Digital Artefact
Coban, M. K. (2025, May 29). Can Big Tech be tamed? The struggle to regulate AI. LSE Review of Books. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/05/29/book-review-can-big-tech-be-tamed-the-struggle-to-regulate-ai-gary-marcus/

Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus examines the growing influence of AI, controlled by profit-driven Big Tech companies, on society and the dangers of AI’s unchecked development. Marcus’s insights and his proposals for stronger oversight, democrati... Read More about Can Big Tech be tamed? The struggle to regulate AI.

It's good to share: rethinking the creation and distribution of revenue in the women's game [Impetus Football] (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Oughton, C. (2025, May 19). It's good to share: rethinking the creation and distribution of revenue in the women's game [Impetus Football]. Impetus Football. https://impetusfootball.org/2025/05/19/its-good-to-share-rethinking-the-creation-and-distribution-of-revenue-in-the-womens-game/

The UEFA Women's Champions League (UWCL) final between Arsenal and Barcelona in Lisbon on 24 May 2025 will not only determine which team are crowned champions of Europe but also the financial spoils. Running in parallel with the allocation of sportin... Read More about It's good to share: rethinking the creation and distribution of revenue in the women's game [Impetus Football].

What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy (2025)
Book Chapter
Asquer, A. (2025). What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy. In I. Roberge, H. McKeen-Edwards, & M. Campbell-Verduyn (Eds.), Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices (pp. 46-66). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371564.ch004

This chapter aims to develop a framework for the analysis of arguments about what constitutes ‘bad policies’ during the policy-making stage. The framework provides a way to categorize bad policies, spanning from ideal policies to disastrous policies,... Read More about What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy.

Patterns of Trust in Financial Services: Critical Factors and Gender Differences (2025)
Journal Article
Sholevar, M., & Bachmann, R. (2025). Patterns of Trust in Financial Services: Critical Factors and Gender Differences. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 30(2), 10. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41264-025-00303-0

This study investigates the interrelationships among factors of trust in financial services. Additionally, it examines how these factors correlate with gender differences, offering insights into trust patterns in emerging markets. Ethiopia, character... Read More about Patterns of Trust in Financial Services: Critical Factors and Gender Differences.

Disentangling China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa: A Symbiotic Partnership or an Unequal Substitute for African Resources? (2025)
Journal Article
Bo, H., Johan, S., Lawal, R., & Sakariyahu, R. (2025). Disentangling China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa: A Symbiotic Partnership or an Unequal Substitute for African Resources?. British Journal of Management, 36(4), 1444-1461. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12912

This paper examines how China's infrastructure investment influences African exports to China. We analyse data from 46 African countries and 14 industries that have received China's infrastructure investment from 2005 to 2019. Our results show that C... Read More about Disentangling China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa: A Symbiotic Partnership or an Unequal Substitute for African Resources?.