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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

A common-features analysis of Amsterdam and London financial markets during the eighteenth century

ECONOMIC INQUIRY, Issue 1 2000
G Dempster
We examine the financial linkage between the London and Amsterdam financial markets using stock prices recorded in each market over the period 1723-94 in conjunction with tests for common trends, cycles, and regime shifts. These tests reveal a surprising degree of integration between the markets as their prices move together in both the short and long run. Moreover, shocks to the assets translate quickly and accurately between markets. It also appears that Dutch investment did not destabilize London markets and stock prices in London were the primary determinant of prices in Amsterdam. [source]

Small Town Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain

HISTORY, Issue 293 2004
Edwin Jaggard
Electoral politics in the small towns of England and Wales between the First (1832) and Second (1867) Reform Acts have been dismissed by historians as corrupt or controlled by influential patrons. This article uses qualitative and quantitative data to reveal that voters in these small boroughs demonstrated a surprising degree of party loyalty, with the politics of influence less obvious that those of principle. The article concludes that these towns, which elected almost one-third of the membership of the House of Commons, exhibited a far more vibrant political milieu than was previously thought. [source]

The Changing Power of ,Explanations': Directors, Academics and Their Sensemaking from 1989 to 2000

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 7 2002
Annie Pye
This paper is based on empirical research conducted with directors in large UK organizations, first in 1987,89, and again in 1998,2000. While the time frame has changed, the focus of the inquiry has remained constant , how do you ,run' a large organization , and data gathered reflect significant changes over time as to how the question is answered. This paper addresses one particular aspect of this complex material: the changing power of practitioner and academic explanations across the decade, highlighted by comparing and contrasting this data and its analysis over time. The paper illustrates a surprising degree of consistency (in contrast to 1987,89 findings) in practitioners' contemporary explanations of their organizing: all talk of strategic focus, shareholder value and corporate governance, phrases previously never mentioned. This reflects a variety of changes across the decade, including an important concentration of power amongst investors. As well as the methodological implications of ,repeating' this study, the changing power of academics' explanations ,on' organization is also discussed as conceptual frameworks gain and lose their resonance with the times. The paper concludes that sensemaking (Weick, 1995) offers the most appropriate perspective by which such shifts in the power of explanations may best be appreciated. [source]

Extraordinary diversity in vasopressin (V1a) receptor distributions among wild prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Patterns of variation and covariation

THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, Issue 4 2003
Steven M. Phelps
Abstract The vasopressin V1a receptor is a gene known to be central to species differences in social behavior, including differences between the monogamous prairie vole and its promiscuous congeners. To examine how individual differences compare with species differences, we characterize variability in the expression of the vasopressin V1a receptor (V1aR) in a large sample of wild prairie voles. We find a surprising degree of intraspecific variation in V1aR binding that does not seem attributable to experimental sources. Most brain regions exhibit differences between upper and lower quartiles that are comparable to differences between species in this genus. Regions that are less variable have been implicated previously in regulating monogamous behaviors, suggesting that the lack of variation at these sites could reflect natural selection on mating system. Many brain regions covary strongly. The overall pattern of covariation reflects the developmental origins of brain regions. This finding suggests that shared mechanisms of transcriptional regulation may limit the patterns of gene expression. Such biases may shape both the efficacy of selection and the pattern of individual and species differences. Overall, our data indicate that the prairie vole would be a useful model for exploring how individual differences in gene expression influence complex social behaviors. J. Comp. Neurol. 466:564,576, 2003. © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]