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Gulbanu Kaptan has been awarded a UK Research and Innovation's rapid response to Covid-19 grant for the project on Capitalising on COVID-19 as a Trigger for Positive Change in Food Waste Behaviour. This is an 18-month project with a funding of £328,000, including a grant of £268,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The project team...
Can we judge a book by its cover? Our paper ‘Confidence and Capital Raising’ has been accepted by the Journal of Corporate Finance. We run an image experiment to assess the confidence of the management teams of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and find a positive association between confidence and the fundraising amount. Our study highlights...
In an experimental study John, along with co-authors Ozan Isler and Onurcan Yilmaz, show that Christians are more cooperative toward fellow Christians than atheists and that this is due to them expecting lower levels of cooperation from atheists and that reciprocating this led them to lower their own levels. The study also provides exploratory support...
Romain Crastes dit Sourd has been invited to give a talk at the pan-institute Series of Webinars in Economics of Environment, Energy and Transports (SWEEET) on Tuesday 2 February at 15:00 GMT. Romain will present his recent work on using a new shifted log-normal distribution for mitigating the ‘exploding’ implicit price problems in mixed logit...
Romain Crastes dit Sourd (together with Chiara Calastri) has published a Chapter in Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course. This new book synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field of transport research. The Chapter aims to investigate through a quantitative analysis the difference...
Alan Pearman recently collaborated with Dr Robert M. Anderson , President of McDonald Anderson, a New York based consultancy, to deliver one of a series of (virtual) workshops on executive decision making and communications for United Nations staff.
The analytic hierarchy process is a widely used multi-criteria decision-making method that involves the construction of pairwise comparison matrices. To infer a decision, a consistent or near-consistent matrix is desired, and therefore, several methods have been developed to control or improve the overall consistency of the matrix. However, controlling the overall consistency does not necessarily...
Uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of climate forecasts and projections. While there is an expanding body of international research focussed on identifying what climate information users need to know about uncertainty, and how this should be communicated, very little of this has been conducted in a Chinese cultural context. This paper reports on the findings...
The chapter (with Angela Cassidy) presents an innovative approach for capturing the mental models of food chains held by the public and other stakeholders such as food producers, scientists and retailers, based on using icons depicting key elements such as farms, factories, lorries, supermarkets, kitchens. Through group discussion different stakeholder groups used these icons and...
To develop effective climate change policy, decision-makers need to have the best possible understanding of the available climate science. The IPCC Assessment Reports therefore aim to lay the foundation for informed political decision-making by providing policy-relevant information. But how successful are IPCC reports at communicating key findings? Although IPCC reports display key information in graphs,...