http://hdl.handle.net/2123/763 2013-06-19T14:59:08Z 2013-06-19T14:59:08Z Jarrow, Robert Kwok, Simon http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9191 2013-06-13T16:52:35Z 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Specification Tests of Calibrated Option Pricing Models Authors: Jarrow, Robert; Kwok, Simon Abstract: In spite of the popularity of model calibration in finance, empirical researchers have put more emphasis on model estimation than on the equally important goodness-of-fit problem. This is due partly to the ignorance of modelers, and more to the ability of existing statistical tests to detect specification errors. In practice, models are often calibrated by minimizing the sum of squared difference between the modelled and actual observations. It is challenging to disentangle model error from estimation error in the residual series. To circumvent the difficulty, we study an alternative way of estimating the model by exact calibration. We argue that standard time series tests based on the exact approach can better reveal model misspecifications than the error minimizing approach. In the context of option pricing, we illustrate the usefulness of exact calibration in detecting model misspecification. Under heteroskedastic observation error structure, our simulation results shows that the Black-Scholes model calibrated by exact approach delivers more accurate hedging performance than that calibrated by error minimization.

2013-05-01T00:00:00Z Lupton, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9190 2013-06-13T16:52:33Z 2013-06-13T00:00:00Z

Title: Digitized health promotion: personal responsibility for health in the Web 2.0 era Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: The new apparatus of what is often termed ‘digital health’ (and also ‘Health 2.0’, ‘Medicine 2.0’, eHealth’ or ‘mHealth’), a conglomeration of new digital technologies addressed at delivering healthcare, preventive medicine and health promotion, has facilitated a focus on measuring and monitoring the functions and activities of lay people’s bodies and encouraging self-care among patients with chronic diseases. It is upon this new approach to identifying and preventing ill health and disease that this working paper focuses. While the digital health approach to the body and health spans the arc from patient care to public health surveillance techniques, the discussion here largely is directed at the implications for the digital health ‘revolution’ in relation to the practice of health promotion; or what I refer to as ‘digitized health promotion’. It is argued that despite concerted efforts on the part of those advocating for a less individualistic approach to health promotion since the 1970s and drawing attention to the social determinants of health, digital health technologies as they are advocated for promoting health represent a renewed focus on personal responsibility for health. In the discourses and practices of digitized health promotion, health risks have become increasingly individualized and viewed as manageable and controllable as long as lay people adopt the appropriate technologies to engage in self-monitoring and self-care. With the advent of the big data produced by digital technologies and the use of sophisticated algorithms to manipulate these data, it has become ever more convenient to focus attention on personal responsibility for health states. The digitalized health promotion phenomenon, therefore, operates as one dimension of the progressive withdrawal of the state in many developed countries from attempting to challenge the social and economic factors causing ill health and disease and efforts to promote social justice.

2013-06-13T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9189 2013-06-13T16:52:30Z 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Title: Absolute poverty in America higher than in 1969 Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9185 2013-06-12T21:45:13Z 2013-06-06T00:00:00Z

Title: ILO: U.S. Inequality now literally off the chart Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-06-06T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9140 2013-06-06T16:52:35Z 2013-06-04T00:00:00Z

Title: When it comes to business profits, it’s the plutonomy versus the realonomy — and the plutonomy is winning Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-06-04T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9111 2013-05-27T16:52:26Z 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Title: The debt ceiling debate that wasn't Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Lupton, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9110 2013-05-26T16:52:31Z 2013-05-26T00:00:00Z

Title: Revolting Bodies: the Pedagogy of Disgust in Public Health Campaigns Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: The developers of public health campaigns have often attempted to elicit the emotion of disgust to persuade members of their target audiences to change their behaviour in the interests of their health. This article identifies and analyses the dominant types of disgust that were employed in a collection of public health campaign texts. It was found that ‘animal reminder’ disgust, ‘liminality’ disgust, ‘matter out of place’ disgust and ‘moral’ disgust were all used in various ways in the campaign materials examined. The implications for how the human body, health and illness are conceptualised and understood and the moral meanings that are related to disgust responses are discussed. It is argued that the use of disgust in public health campaigns has serious political and ethical implications. Advocates of using such tactics should be aware of the challenge they pose to human dignity and their perpetuation of the Self and Other binary opposition that marginalises and stigmatises already disadvantaged individuals and social group.

2013-05-26T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9099 2013-05-21T16:52:30Z 2013-05-19T00:00:00Z

Title: OECD: Inequality rising faster than ever Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-05-19T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9090 2013-05-20T16:52:34Z 2013-05-19T00:00:00Z

Title: Inequality and growth Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-05-19T00:00:00Z Frow, John http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9066 2013-05-06T16:52:34Z 2013-05-06T00:00:00Z

Title: Embodiment Authors: Frow, John Abstract: A critical account of the category of embodiment (draft of a book chapter)

2013-05-06T00:00:00Z Lupton, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9065 2013-05-06T16:52:34Z 2013-05-06T00:00:00Z

Title: Infant embodiment and interembodiment Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: This article brings together a range of research and scholarship from various disciplines which have investigated and theorised social and cultural aspects of infants’ bodies within the context of contemporary western societies. It begins with a theoretical overview of dominant concepts of infants’ bodies, including discussion of the concepts of the unfinished body, civility and the Self/Other binary opposition as well as that of interembodiment, drawn from the work of Merleau-Ponty. Then follows discussion of the pleasures and challenging aspects of interembodiment in relation to caregivers’ interactions with infants’ bodies, purity, danger and infant embodiment and lastly practices of surveilling the vulnerable, ‘at risk’ infant body.

2013-05-06T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9064 2013-05-06T16:52:29Z 2013-05-03T00:00:00Z

Title: Why are luxury car sales growing at record rates — in a recession? Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-05-03T00:00:00Z Lupton, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9063 2013-05-05T16:52:35Z 2013-05-04T00:00:00Z

Title: The Commodification of Patient Opinion: the Digital Patient Experience Economy in the Age of Big Data Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: As part of the digital health phenomenon, a plethora of interactive digital platforms have been established in recent years to elicit lay people’s experiences of illness and healthcare. The function of these platforms, as expressed on the main pages of their websites, is to provide the tools and forums whereby patients and caregivers, and in some cases medical practitioners, can share their experiences with others, benefit from the support and knowledge of other contributors and contribute to large aggregated data archives as part of developing better medical treatments and services and conducting medical research. However what may not always be readily apparent to the users of these platforms are the growing commercial uses by many of the platforms’ owners of the archives of the data they contribute. This article examines this phenomenon of what I term ‘the digital patient experience economy’. In so doing I discuss such aspects as prosumption, the phenomena of big data and metric assemblages, the discourse and ethic of sharing and the commercialisation of affective labour via such platforms. I argue that via these online platforms patients’ opinions and experiences may be expressed in more diverse and accessible forums than ever before, but simultaneously they have become exploited in novel ways.

2013-05-04T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9061 2013-05-02T16:52:42Z 2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

Title: Exploding the debt threshold myth Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-04-26T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9059 2013-05-02T16:52:42Z 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z

Title: "The rich don't always win" - but they usually do Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9058 2013-05-02T16:52:42Z 2013-04-10T00:00:00Z

Title: The squeezed middle: the title says it all Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-04-10T00:00:00Z Ashpole, Lynne http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9047 2013-04-29T16:52:31Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Ministerial Advisers: How Ministers Shape Their Conduct – A Study of Ministers and Advisers in the Rudd Government Authors: Ashpole, Lynne Abstract: Ministerial advisers have become part of the standard advisory arrangements in Westminster governments, yet there is disagreement about their roles and behaviour. In Australia, some academic work has considered their involvement in scandals like the 2001 children overboard affair and the 1993 sports rorts controversy. However, the focus on exceptional events means advisers’ everyday roles and conduct have not been given sufficient weight and those conclusions are therefore distorted. This paper finds that ministers exert a dominant influence over their advisers’ behaviour and that advisers continue to see themselves as agents of their ministers. Based on interviews with four Rudd government ministers and their advisers, the research shows advisers have strong norms of behaviour and that formal and informal accountability mechanisms operate to constrain their conduct. Advisers are not ‘out of control’ or operating in a ‘black hole of accountability’ as often claimed

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9042 2013-04-22T16:52:27Z 2013-04-20T00:00:00Z

Title: Inequality, greed, and the demise of our better natures Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-04-20T00:00:00Z Che, XiaoGang Lee, Peter Yang, Yibai http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9029 2013-04-12T18:52:33Z 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Impact of Resale on Entry in Second Price Auctions Authors: Che, XiaoGang; Lee, Peter; Yang, Yibai Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of resale allowance on entry strategies in a second price auction with two bidders whose entries are sequential and costly. We first characterize the perfect Bayesian equilibrium in cutoff strategies. We then show that there exists a unique threshold such that if the reseller's bargaining power is greater (less) than the threshold, resale allowance causes the leading bidder (the following bidder) to have a higher (lower) incentive on entry; i.e., the cutoff of entry becomes lower (higher). We also discuss asymmetric bidders and the original seller's expected revenue.

2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Lupton, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9022 2013-04-08T16:52:33Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'The best thing for the baby': mothers' concepts and experiences related to promoting their infants' health and development Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Mothers and pregnant women in contemporary western societies are at the centre of a web of expert and lay discourses concerning the ways they should promote and protect the health and development of their foetuses and infants. This article reports the findings from an Australian study involving interviews with 60 mothers. The findings explore in detail four topics discussed in the interviews related to pregnancy and caring for young infants: disciplining the pregnant body; promoting infants’ health; immunisation; and promoting infants’ development. It is concluded that the mothers were highly aware of their responsibilities in protecting their foetuses and infants from harm and promoting their health and development. They conceptualised the infant body as highly vulnerable and requiring protection from contamination. They therefore generally supported the idea of vaccination as a way of protecting their babies’ immature immune systems, but were also often ambivalent about it. The mothers were aware of the judgemental attitudes of others, including other mothers, towards their caring efforts and attempted to conform to the ideal of the ‘good mother’. The emotional dimensions of caring for infants and protecting their health are discussed in relation to the voluntary participation of mothers in conforming to societal expectations.

2011-10-01T00:00:00Z Lupton, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9021 2013-04-08T16:52:32Z 2013-04-08T00:00:00Z

Title: Fat Politics: Collected Writings Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: This publication is a collection of short articles published by sociologist Deborah Lupton on her blog and The Conversation website dealing with topics relating to the politics of body weight. The articles include discussion of obesity and fat politics, fat activism, the Health at Every Size movement, fat stigma and discrimination, motherhood and children’s body weight, the use of disgust in anti-obesity campaigns and pro-ana websites.

2013-04-08T00:00:00Z Edwards, Ben Fiorini, Mario Stevens, Katrien Taylor, Matthew http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9020 2013-04-05T17:52:34Z 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Is Monotonicity in an IV and RD design testable? No, but you can still check it Authors: Edwards, Ben; Fiorini, Mario; Stevens, Katrien; Taylor, Matthew Abstract: Whenever treatment effects are heterogeneous and there is sorting into treatment based on the gain, monotonicity is a condition that both Instrumental Variable and fuzzy Regression Discontinuity designs have to satisfy for their estimand to be interpretable as a LATE. Angrist and Imbens (1995) argue that the monotonicity assumption is testable whenever the treatment is multivalued. We show that their test is informative if counterfactuals are observed. Yet applying the test without observing counterfactuals, as it is generally done, is not. Nevertheless, we argue that monotonicity can and should be investigated using a mix of economic intuition and data patterns, just like other untestable assumptions in an IV or RD design. We provide examples in a variety of settings as a guide to practice.

2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9018 2013-04-04T15:52:32Z 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z

Title: Government exists to serve the people, not the privileged Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-04-04T00:00:00Z Prasad, Suraj DeVaro, Jed http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9015 2013-04-03T15:52:24Z 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Relationship Between Delegation and Incentives Across Occupations: Evidence and Theory Authors: Prasad, Suraj; DeVaro, Jed Abstract: A large literature, both theoretical and empirical, suggests that delegation of authority and incentives should have a positive relationship. Using data from a large cross section of British establishments, we show that the positive relationship between incentives and delegation that has been consistently documented in the empirical literature masks a stark difference between job types. We classify jobs into two categories: complex jobs include professional, technical and scientific occupations and simple jobs consist of all other occupations with a lower-level code in the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. We find that for simple jobs, the relationship between delegation and incentives is positive as has been found in the previous literature, whereas for complex jobs it is negative. To explain this negative relationship for complex jobs, we develop a model where tasks have a risk-return tradeoff and where a single performance measure has to induce both task selection and effort. We find that if tasks vary sufficiently by risk and return and if effort is noisy to measure, then delegation and incentives have a negative relationship.

2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9010 2013-04-02T15:52:22Z 2013-03-29T00:00:00Z

Title: How inequality corrupts society Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-03-29T00:00:00Z Mathers, Ananda http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9009 2013-05-15T05:53:26Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Empathy for Prinz of the “Dark Side” Authors: Mathers, Ananda Abstract: Jesse Prinz has argued that empathy plays no important role in moral judgement, and further that it has a “dark side” which renders it by and large bad for morality. This paper challenges these conclusions and demonstrates that it is possible to meet Prinz’s objections by adopting a conceptualisation of empathy which combines elements of Martin Hoffman’s process-focussed definition of empathy with Michael Slote’s agent-centred approach to empathy’s functional role within morality. Beyond proving resilient in the face of Prinz’s attacks, such a conceptualisation of empathy also displays a degree of explanatory usefulness both within Prinz’s own brand of moral sentimentalism and the moral psychology literature more generally. Far from being bad for morality, empathy would appear to be a useful ally to a robust moral sentimentalism.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor, Alistair http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9008 2013-03-28T15:52:31Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Neo-pragmatist accounts of truth: Rorty's "ethnocentrism" and Putnam's "internal realism" Authors: Taylor, Alistair Abstract: This work will discuss a recent series of public exchanges that took place between the two founding figures of neopragmatism, Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam, regarding truth and its relation to justification. Like the classical pragmatists Peirce, James, and Dewey, both Rorty and Putnam argue that we should refrain from taking the term “true” to denote a successful correspondence between a proposition and a single, fixed, absolute reality. Given this substantial common ground, their exchanges provide a direct insight into a tension that lies right at the heart of neopragmatism. Both attempt to interpret truth as importantly related to the prospect of justification amongst peers, without simply providing a reductive definition of “true” as synonymous with “whatever happens to be the contemporary consensus.” Rorty and Putnam thus attempt to navigate an approach to the notion of truth that avoids the problems associated with “absolute” theories of truth on one extreme, and utter “relativism” about truth on the other. In this essay I will attempt to clarify the points of compatibility and points of departure between Rorty and Putnam’s views by closely examining the debates that occurred between the two.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9006 2013-03-28T15:52:34Z 2013-03-08T00:00:00Z

Title: How inequality is killing the dinosaurs Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-03-08T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9005 2013-03-28T15:52:35Z 2013-03-24T00:00:00Z

Title: The great Cyprus bank robbery Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-03-24T00:00:00Z Lees, Adam http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9004 2013-03-25T15:52:37Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Naturalistic Theory of Perceptual Representation Authors: Lees, Adam Abstract: I propose a theory of representation concerning the perceptual events that are posited and studied by the cognitive and neuro-sciences. The theory is intended to help explain relationships between the perceptual and executive systems, and to place metasemantic constraints on future accounts of the semantics of natural languages. I begin by setting out desiderata for the theory. In particular, I intend the theory to be naturalistic at least in accordance with a specified kind of epistemological naturalism, to give priority to explaining the properties of the representing events themselves rather than their contents, to avoid the widespread lack of clarity among similar theories when it comes to identifying contents, to apply to human-like systems with executive functions and language, to be compatible with constraints imposed by natural selection, and to posit narrow contents that are capable of figuring in a certain kind of autonomous causal explanation. The suggested theory for meeting these desiderata is based on a definition of perceptual states by ceteris paribus effects on the motor control system, which contrasts with the orthodox description of tokened perceptual states as carrying information about their external causes. I then propose that the representational content of a perceptual event is specified by the motor control system effects that define the state it tokens, but only when this event affects the executive systems. Intuitively, these representations are constructions out of the behavioural dispositions that are mediated by perceptual events, such that these constructions are used by the executive systems in the trialling of potential behavioural outputs. While this behavioural model theory of perceptual representation satisfies the desiderata, I argue that it warrants scepticism about manifest objects and their properties. I conclude with a brief discussion of the implications of the theory.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hughes, Emily Joy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9003 2013-03-25T15:52:38Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Thrown Impossibility: The Ontological Structure of Despair Authors: Hughes, Emily Joy Abstract: This thesis is a phenomenological analysis of the ontological structure of despair. It begins with an analysis of Heidegger’s work on ‘Affectedness’ whereby through the critique given by Ratcliffe it is seen that moods are primordial and condition the way the world can matter to the subject. It then expatiates the phenomenology of despair where despair is ‘lived impossibility as such.’ Explicating the phenomenology of despair then involves subjecting Freud’s essay ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ to a Heideggerian hermeneutic analysis as discussed by Kristeva and Foucault in particular and also Radden more generally. This phenomenology of despair is then drawn into comparison with Heideggerian ‘Anxiety’ and it is concluded that despair is comparable to Heideggerian anxiety when it is subject to a negative existential reduction as put forward by Dreyfus. The final section of this paper then maps the phenomenology of despair onto the temporality of Heidegger’s care structure, ultimately explicating the ontological structure of despair. This involves a close analysis of the radical diminishing of Heideggerian ‘Projection’ or ‘Understanding’ as is reflected in the radical disruption to temporality that occurs in despair, particularly the diminishing of the futural self- the most profound consequence of which is the loss of the capacity to project towards one’s ownmost possibility, that of death. It is argues that death becomes impossible which then means that life itself becomes impossible.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hariharan, Jeevan http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9002 2013-03-25T15:52:37Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: FREE WILL HUNTING: A RECONCEPTUALISATION OF VOLUNTARINESS, DURESS AND NECESSITY USING ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS Authors: Hariharan, Jeevan Abstract: Jurisprudential philosophers concerned with the question of legal responsibility will be familiar with the problematic category of cases where conduct which would otherwise attract liability is committed as a result of threats or dire circumstances. When these situations arise in the context of criminal law, the traditional approach has been to invoke the defences of duress and necessity. As it stands, however, the operation of these concepts seems to be fraught with an underlying difficulty; namely, that the core theoretical basis for duress and necessity overlaps with the principle of voluntariness by relying on common tests such as whether one’s free will is overborne. In chapter one, I outline this problem and its implications, arguing that attempts to circumvent the issue are unsuccessful because they are based on an arbitrary distinction between physical and moral involuntariness. The rest of the thesis is devoted to the claim that a tenable basis for reconceptualisation can be found in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics. In chapter three, I examine Aristotle’s writings on these issues, overcoming difficulties with the texts to develop an Aristotelian theory of voluntary action. In chapter four, I apply these considerations to the current law, demonstrating how an Aristotelian approach better conforms with the underlying rationale for the voluntariness principle and leads to increased clarity for the law relating to duress and necessity.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chua, David http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9001 2013-03-25T15:52:36Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Metaphysical accounts of modality: A comparative evaluation of Lewisian and neo-Aristotelian modal metaphysics Authors: Chua, David Abstract: In this essay I comparatively evaluate two realist metaphysical accounts of modality: David Lewis’ (1986) genuine modal realism (GMR), and neo-Aristotelian modal realism (AMR) as put forth by Alexander Pruss (2011). GMR offers a reductive analysis of modal claims of possibility and necessity in terms of claims quantifying over concrete worlds and counterparts, and is in this way committed the existence of a plurality of concrete worlds other than the actual world; AMR, on the other hand, offers an analysis of modal claims in terms of claims about the causal powers of existing objects in the actual world, and identifies these powers and powerful properties as the truthmakers for modal truths of possibility and necessity. I consider two objections to GMR; firstly, that it leads to ethical paradoxes, and secondly, that the counterparts it offers as truthmakers for modal claims are fundamentally irrelevant to the de re modal properties of objects. I argue that AMR bears a prima facie advantage over GMR by reason of its avoidance of those two objections, before evaluating two objections faced by AMR itself, namely, that its analysis is not genuinely explanatory, and secondly, that the ontology of powers fails to account for the full range of metaphysical possibility. I argue that AMR has the resources to avoid these objections, that AMR on balance is more attractive, and that therefore AMR is worthy of serious consideration by advocates of GMR. References LEWIS, DAVID K. (1986). On the plurality of worlds. New York, NY, USA: B. Blackwell. PRUSS, ALEXANDER R. (2011). Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds. London: Continuum.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rogers, Katren http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8996 2013-03-22T17:52:26Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Vouchers Reconsidered - The marketisation of education and prospects for social democratic reform Authors: Rogers, Katren

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bundey, Freya http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8995 2013-03-22T17:52:29Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'Never had it so good'? The Concealed Costs of Financial Exposure Authors: Bundey, Freya

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Barry, Matthew http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8994 2013-03-22T17:52:34Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Political Economy of Neoliberalism and the Occupy Movement Authors: Barry, Matthew

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sherab, Domenique http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8993 2013-03-22T17:52:31Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Freedom and Faith in Neoliberal Capitalism: The Fantasy of the American Dream Authors: Sherab, Domenique

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Petrova, Ioulia http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8992 2013-03-22T17:52:33Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Aid-for-Trade: the Way Forward for Development? Authors: Petrova, Ioulia Abstract: The failure to eradicate poverty through trade-induced economic growth over a number of decades raises questions about the latest initiative: Aid-for-trade. After examining whether the initiative signifies a new paradigm for achieving development, this thesis employs an empirical analysis of the East Asian region with a particular focus on Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to find no clear relationship between Aid-for-trade flows and measures of development even for individual sectors in these countries. It is concluded that this is due to Aid-for-trade flows being designed to maximise the donor’s economic and political position rather than the recipient’s development.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jahan, Hosna http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8991 2013-03-22T17:52:31Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Money for Nothing, Re-thinking Women's Empowerment and the Accomplishments of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh Authors: Jahan, Hosna Abstract: Microfinance Institutions often claim that microfinance is useful not only in alleviating poverty but also as a development tool which empowers women. The impacts of microfinance on empowerment have been studied by many, some of whom have reviewed empowerment not only by looking at repayment, but also by examining the women’s well-being. However, other studies suggest that the various dimensions of well-being (such as mobility, political participation and health awareness) are not a direct result of access to credit or income but rather an indirect result of community development programs that are usually run by the microfinance institutions alongside their credit providing facilities. Thus, many studies suggest, while microfinance may be a useful tool to alleviate women out of poverty but empowerment is an issue that needs to be addressed differently. Empowerment, in this view, requires incorporating women’s agency. However, in traditional societies like Bangladesh, the present character of women’s agency is one of the causes of their disempowerment. The existing social structure and the century-long gender disparities distort the view of what women really value. Thus, I argue that empowerment cannot be achieved only via exercising agency, but it needs to question the existing power relations and social structures. On this reasoning empowerment requires critical agency. By examining Bangladeshi women’s identity, social structure and agency this thesis inspects how social structures, existing power relations and agency play out in the context of empowerment. I argue that the microfinance institutions need to challenge the existing social structures and power relations rather than build on them. Moreover, the idea of critical agency needs to be incorporated in their community development programs to play an effective role in women’s empowerment and development. Looking at microfinance institutions in this broader context shows more clearly the limited role they play in the process of women’s empowerment.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Atalay, Kadir Whelan, Stephen Yates, Judith http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8975 2013-03-14T15:52:29Z 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Housing Wealth and Household Consumption: New Evidence from Australia and Canada Authors: Atalay, Kadir; Whelan, Stephen; Yates, Judith Abstract: Over the past two decades a number of countries have experienced an increase in house prices at the same time that aggregate consumption has been observed to increase. Alternative hypotheses have been put forward to explain this pattern. In this paper we test these hypotheses by using repeated Household Expenditure Surveys from Canada and Australia to identify the transmission mechanism that links consumption and household wealth. The empirical analysis suggests that neither a direct wealth effect nor a common causal factor is a likely explanation for the observed correlation between wealth and consumption. Rather, indirect factors such as relaxation of credit constraints are more likely explanations.

2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8956 2013-02-28T15:52:33Z 2013-02-27T00:00:00Z

Title: Britain comes clean on slave fortunes Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-02-27T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8937 2013-02-14T15:52:41Z 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z

Title: The world order is changing, but not how you think Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-02-13T00:00:00Z Barwick, Linda Marett, Allan Blythe, Joe Walsh, Michael http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8935 2013-02-13T15:52:35Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Arriving, digging, performing, returning: an exercise in rich interpretation of a djanba song text in the sound archive of the Wadeye Knowledge Centre, Northern Territory of Australia Authors: Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan; Blythe, Joe; Walsh, Michael Abstract: This article covers issues around song language interpretation and documentation in relation to a djanba song in Murriny Patha language composed by Lawrence Kolumboort (djanba 11). Description: Submitted with the permission of the volume editor, Prof. R.M. Moyle.

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Barwick, Linda http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8931 2013-02-12T15:52:38Z 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Barwick, L. (1994). The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio: cross-cultural perspectives on related genres of popular music theatre Authors: Barwick, Linda Abstract: The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio are contemporary traditions of sung popular theatre that use written librettos drawing on European chivalrous verse romances. Their present-day forms, themes and performance practice reflect the intercultural contact and conflict that have characterised their histories. After introducing case studies drawn from the Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio, the paper surveys the history of performance traditions associated with the chivalrous romance, including review of contemporary survivals in a number of performance media, and the use of writing in these and other popular traditions. In order to explain the striking parallels in present-day manifestations of both komedya and maggio, it is necessary to grasp the complex but largely hidden history of dramatic performances that have accompanied the published verse romances. Description: This paper has been archived in PARADISEC as part of collection LB1, "Luna and Burgos (Ilocos Sur) (1993) and Vigan (Ilocos Sur) (1995)". Linda Barwick (collector), Linda Barwick (author), 1994; Article by Linda Barwick on 'The Filipino komedya and the Italian maggio', PDF, http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/LB1/items/ARTICLE 2013-02-12.

1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8927 2013-02-11T15:52:37Z 2013-02-10T00:00:00Z

Title: The problem isn’t growth; the problem is inequality Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-02-10T00:00:00Z Atalay, Kadir Kim, Woo-Yung Whelan, Stephen http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8925 2013-02-08T17:52:25Z 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Decline of the Self-Employment Rate in Australia Authors: Atalay, Kadir; Kim, Woo-Yung; Whelan, Stephen Abstract: This paper using the Australian panel data(HILDA) investigates the declining trend of self-employment rate in Australia, a pattern observed in a number of other developed countries in the 2000s. We focus on the entry into and the exit from self-employment, treating males and females separately. Our results show that the self-employment rate has declined in Australia because older workers, especially older female workers, remained longer in paid-employment. This finding indicates that although the self-employment rate of older workers is higher than that of younger workers, the gap has decreased in recent years so that the average self-employment rate has declined. In addition, we provide some evidence that industry and institutional changes, such as reforms in tax and pension systems, may have contributed to an increase in the labour force participation of older females, which may explain why the decline of self-employment has been severe for this group.

2013-02-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8912 2013-02-04T15:52:26Z 2013-01-28T00:00:00Z

Title: What's wrong with the "right to work"? Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-01-28T00:00:00Z Yu, Teresa http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8903 2013-01-30T15:52:31Z 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Australia and the Palestine Question, 1947–1949: A New Interpretation Authors: Yu, Teresa Abstract: By 1947, the conflicting national aspirations of the Arab majority and Jewish minority within Palestine had developed into an intractable problem. The responsibility for the political future of Palestine fell upon the fledgling United Nations and thereby weighed upon the shoulders of all its constituent states. This was a time, however, when the nations of the globe were emerging from the shadow of a world war, and were re-evaluating their construction of foreign policy. In this thesis I utilise the Palestine Question as a prism through which to explore the nuances in the Australian conception of postwar diplomacy.

2012-12-01T00:00:00Z Babones, Salvatore http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8899 2013-01-23T15:52:21Z 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z

Title: To save Social Security, raise the minimum wage Authors: Babones, Salvatore

2013-01-22T00:00:00Z Newton, Jonathan http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8898 2013-01-22T15:52:20Z 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Stochastic stability on general state spaces Authors: Newton, Jonathan Abstract: This paper studies stochastic stability methods applied to processes on general state spaces. This includes settings in which agents repeatedly interact and choose from an uncountable set of strategies. Dynamics exist for which the stochastically stable states differ from those of any reasonable finite discretization. When there are a finite number of rest points of the unperturbed dynamic, sufficient conditions for analogues of results from the finite state space literature are derived and studied. Illustrative examples are given

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