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2001: Globalisation and GMOs: Evolution, Regulation and Distributional Consequences of the Biotechnological Food Revolution

Andy Thorpe and Catherine Robinson

2001: Estimates of a Model of Male Participation in the Market for Female Heterosexual Prostitution Services

Samuel Cameron and Alan Collins

2001: Does Plant Ownership Affect the level of Pollution Abatement Expenditure?

Alan Collins and Richard Harris

2001: What Makes a Blockbuster? Economic Analysis of Film Success in the United Kingdom

Alan Collins, Chris Hand and Martin Snell

2000: Towards the 'Cult of the Equity'? Insurance Compamies and the Interwar Capital Market

P. Scott

2000: Britain, South African Gold and Sterling Area, 1945-51

T. Rooth

2000: Underlying Trends and Seasonality in UK Energy Demands: A Sectorial Analysis

Lester Hunt, Guy Judge and Y. Ninomiya

2000: The Globalisation of Agriculture in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

Andy Thorpe and E. Bennett

2000: Economic Tensions and Conflict in the Commonwealth 1945-c. 1951

T. Rooth

2000: Openness and Economic Performance: a Comparative Study of China and the Asian NIEs

S. Yao and Zhaoyong Zhang

2000: British Public Policy and Inward Direct Investment during the "Dollar Gap" Era

T. Rooth and P. Scott

2000: Australia, Canada and the Internaitonal Economy in the Era of Post-War Reconstruction

T. Rooth

1999: Microstates and Offshore Finance: the Political Economy of Vulnerability

Mark Hampton

1999: Women, Other 'Fresh' Workers, and the New Manufacturing Workforce of Interwar Britain

P. Scott

1999: Recent Developments in Money Laundering Policies and Offshore Finance Centers

Mark Hampton and Maurice Levi

1999: The State, Internal Migration, and the Growth of New Industrial Communities in Interwar Britain

P. Scott

1999: Regional Growth in Chine under Economic Reforms

S. Yao and Zhaoyong Zhang

1998: Industrial Estates and British Industrial Development, 1897-1939

P. Scott

1998: Tourism and the Environment in Small Islands: a Case Study of Gili Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia

M.P. Hampton and J.M. Hampton

1998: The Continental Imperative? Canadian International Trade and Finance in the Twentieth Century

T. Rooth

1998: Britain's Other Dollar Problem: Economic Relations with Canada 1945-50

T. Rooth

1998: The Capture of the State in Jersey's Offshore Finance Centre

J. Christensen and Mark Hampton

1998: Public Sector Investment and Britain's Post-War Economic Performance: a Case Study of Roads Policy

P. Scott

1998: The Cost-Effectiveness of 1930s British Regional Policy

P. Scott

1998: Sample Selection Bias and Theoretical Validity Tests of the Non-Use Value of an Environmental Good

Shabbar Jaffry

1998: Trade Reform in Central America and the Caribbean: Will Liberalisation Resolve the Problem of Structural Imbalances?

R. Taylor and Andy Thorpe

1998: Management of Musicians: An Exploratory Economic Analysis

Samuel Cameron, Alan Collins and L. Murphy

1998: Opportunistic Behaviour in Subcontracting with Asset Specificity and Asymmetric Information: the Interwar British Road-haulage Industry

P. Scott and C. Reid

1998: The Property Specialisation Cycle: From Trough to Peak in Two and a Half Centuries

C. Fowler, Mark Hampton and P. Scott

1998: Prostitution Services: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis

Alan Collins, Samuel Cameron and N. Thew

1998: Parental Preferences and Choice of Secondary School. An Exploratory Microeconomic Case Study in Southern England

Alan Collins and Martin Snell

1998: Technical and Institutional Interrelatedness in British Rail Coal Haulage: a Re-Appraisal

P. Scott

1998: Some Comments after Forty Years of Alternative Distribution Theories

Craven J.

1997: Gender Differences in Mate Search Effort.: an Exploratory Economic Analysis of Personal Advertisements

P. Butler-Smith, Samuel Cameron and Alan Collins

1997: Economic Development and the Construction of Tourism-Based Livelihoods in an Urban Village, Yogyakart, Indonesia

Mark Hampton

1997: Utility and Welfare: a review of concpets, and a proposal

P. Cooper

1997: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: An Economic Analysis of Relationship Preferences in Personal Advertisements

Alan Collins and Samuel Cameron

1997: The Property Rights Approach: An Uprising in the Economics of Urban Public Transport

Alan Collins

1996: The Evolution of Britain's Urban Built Environment: 1840-1960

P Scott

1996: A Club Good Perspective on Gangsters and Revolutionaries

Alan Collins and Colin Jennings

1996: Economic Development Impacts of Backpacker Tourism in the Periphery: A Case Study of Lombok, Indonesia

Mark Hampton

1996: British Business and the International Economy Between the Wars

T Rooth

1996: British Public Policy and Foreign-Based Enterprises in Britain Prior to 1939

P Scott and T Rooth

1996: Personal Introduction Agencies in the United Kingdom: Estimates of an Average Cost Function

Samuel Cameron and Alan Collins

1996: Women's Magazines and the Commerical Orchestration of Fimininity in the 1930s: Evidence from Woman's Own

J. Greenfield and C. Reid

1996: The Limits of Tourism as an Engine of Sustainable Development

Alan Collins

1996: The Wolf at the Door: The Trade Union Movement and Overseas Multinational in Britain During the 1930s

P. Scott

1996: Protectionism and Inward-FDI in Britain 1919-1939

P. Scott and T. Rooth

1996: Technical Inefficiencies of Grain Production in China

S. Yao, Z. Liu and J. Xie

1996: Making a Crisis out of a Drama: Should we Continue Public Financial Support for the British Theatre?

Alan Collins and Chris Hand

1996: Robert Mansbridge, A Rural Tailor and His Customers 1811-1815

C. Fowler

1996: Creating Spaces. The Political Economy of Island Offshore Finance Centres: the Case of Jersey

Mark Hampton

1996: The Location of Early Multinationals in Britain, 1900-1939: Patterns and Determinants

P Scott

1996: Road Use and Pricing Paradigm: A Re-Statement

Andrew B.P.

1996: Changing Patterns of Seasonality in Hotel and Tourism Demand: An Analysis of Portsmouth Monthly Arrivals Data

J. Grainger and Guy Judge

1996: An Outline of the Key Determinants of Competitiveness in the International Motor Vehicle Industry

R. Husan

1996: An Economistic Interpretation of the Northern Ireland Conflict

Colin Jennings

1996: Wood Trade Liberalization and Long Term Forestry Development In China

A. Lui

1996: Gender Differences in Mate Search Effort

P. Butler-Smith, Samuel Cameron and Alan Collins

1996: SMEs and Non-Conforming Land Uses: From Zoning to Corporate Environmental Management

Alan Collins and D. Nowell

1996: The Evolution of the Bargaining Relationship between the UK Government and Oil Compagnies in Exploiting UK North Sea Oil under Incomplete Contracts

E.Y.M. Lau

1996: Trade Liberalisation and Plant Exit in New Zealand Manufacturing

John Gibson and Richard Harris

1996: Macro-Economic Conditions for Sustainable Agriculture in Central America

Andy Thorpe

1996: Innovative Activity Over the Buisness Cycle:an Alternative Interpretation

S. Yao and Alan Collins

1995: Evolving Seasonal Patterns in UK Energy Series

Lester Hunt and Guy Judge

1995: Employment Change in the Portsmouth TTWA: 181-91 Unravelling the Causes with Shift-Share

A. Liu and D. Clark

1995: Alternative Approaches to Modelling a Regional Economy in an Input-Output Framework

A.L.J. Grainger and Shabbar Jaffry

1995: Post-War Tourism in small Island Economies: The Case of Jersey

Mark Hampton

1995: The Treasury as Venture Capitalist: DATAC Industrial Finance and the McMillan Gap, 1945-1960

F. Carnevali and P. Scott

1995: Trunk Road Investment, Environmental Costs and Bureaucracy

Alan Collins and R. O'Doherty

1995: Uneven Development of Non-Farm Entreprises and Regional Income Inequality in Rural China

S. Yao and John Liu

1995: Debt and Imperial Preference during the Depression: Anglo- Australian Economic Relations in the 1930

T. Rooth

1995: The Impact of the End of the Cold War on French Trade and Direct Foreing Investment

C. Gulvin

1994: Economics of Dangerous Liaisons: Deliberate Misrepresentation of Preferences for Entertainment

Samuel Cameron and Alan Collins

1994: Profit Sharing, Bonus Payment and Productivity: a Case of State-Owned Enterprises in China 1980-87

S. Yao

1994: The Costs of 'Passive' British Regional Policy 1951-64

P. Scott

1994: The Long Run Determinants of Wages, in the New Zealand Labour Market, 1965-1991

Richard Harris

1994: A Samll Monetary Model of the U.K

J. Montier

1994: Cointergartion and VARS Johansen's ML Procedure Theory, Estimation, Identification and Inference. A Practitioners Guide

J. Montier