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  1. Ururuka V, Otley DT and Beekes WA, 2009, 'Explaining Adverse Behavioural Impact of Performance Management Systems in a Professional Accounting Firm', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Performance evaluative style, Goal difficulty, Organisational commitment, Dysfunctional behaviour, Quality threatening behaviour, Performance measurement systems, Management control systems, Hierarchical levels, lines of service
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  2. Dias JC and Shackleton MB, 2008, 'Economic hysteresis effects and hitting time densities for CIR diffusions', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Real options, interest rate uncertainty, perpetuities, investment hysteresis, mean reversion, hitting time densities
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  3. Peasnell KV, Talib S and Young SE, 2007, 'The fragile returns to investor relations: evidence from a period of declining market confidence', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: investor relations, communications, financial reporting credibility, accounting scandals, auditor reputation, Sarbanes-Oxley, stock returns
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  4. Kiosse P, Lubberink MJP and Peasnell KV, 2007, 'How does the market price pension accruals?', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Pension expense, value relevance, defined benefit pension plans
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  5. Aretz K, Bartram S and Dufey G, 2007, 'Why hedge? Rationales for corporate hedging and value implications', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Corporate finance, risk management, exposure, foreign exchange rates, derivatives
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  6. Beekes WA and Brown P, 2006, 'On the timeliness of price discovery', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
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  7. Liu X, Shackleton MB, Taylor SJ and Xu X, 2006, 'Empirical pricing kernels obtained from the UK index options market', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Pricing kernels; Risk-neutral densities; Index options; Risk aversion
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  8. Beekes WA, Brown P and Chin G, 2006, 'Do better governed firms make more informative disclosures? Canadian evidence', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Corporate governance quality; Disclosure frequency; Analysts’ forecasts; Price discovery; Timeliness
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  9. Dias JC and Shackleton MB, 2005, 'Investment hysteresis under stochastic interest rates', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: real options, interest rate uncertainty, perpetuities, investment hysteresis
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  10. Shackleton MB and Sodal S, 2005, 'Smooth pasting as rate of return equalization', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Smooth pasting, rates of return, option elasticity, real option.
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  11. Beekes WA and Brown P, 2005, 'Do better governed Australian firms make more informative disclosures?', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: corporate governance quality; disclosure frequency; analysts’ forecasts; price discovery; timeliness
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  12. Pope PF, Peasnell KV and McMeeking KP, 2005, 'The effect of large audit firm mergers on audit pricing in the UK', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
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  13. Huang J, 2004, 'Option bounds from concurrently expiring options when relative risk aversion is bounded ', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Option bounds, option pricing, arbitrage pricing
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  14. Huang J, 2004, 'DARA and DRRA option bounds from concurrently expiring options ', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Option bounds, option pricing, DARA, DRRA
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  15. Huang J, 2004, 'Stochastic dominance option bounds and Nth order arbitrage opportunities ', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Option bounds, option pricing, stochastic dominance
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  16. Huang J, 2004, 'Option bounds and second order arbitrage opportunities ', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Option bounds, option pricing, stochastic dominance, risk averse
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  17. Huang J, 2004, 'Risk neutral probabilities and option bounds: a geometric approach ', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Option bounds, option pricing, risk neutral density, first order stochastic dominance
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  18. Huang J, 2004, 'Cautiousness and tendency to buy options', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
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  19. Shackleton MB and O'Brien F, 2004, 'An empirical investigation of UK option returns: overpricing and the role of higher systematic moments', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: option returns, CAPM, systematic, skewness, kurtosis, comoments, cross-section
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  20. O'Hanlon JF and Peasnell KV, 2004, 'Residual Income and value-creation: the missing link', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: residual income, EVA, value-based management, performance measurement
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  21. Isidro HD, O'Hanlon JF and Young SE, 2004, 'Dirty surplus accounting flows: international evidence', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
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  22. Choi Y-S, O'Hanlon JF and Pope PF, 2004, 'Conservative accounting and linear information valuation models ', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Accounting; Capital markets; Valuation models; Linear information models
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  23. Oswald D and Young SE, 2004, 'Open market share reacquisitions, surplus cash, and agency problems', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Share reacquisitions, operating cash flow, managerial entrenchment.
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  24. Lambrecht BM and Myers SC, 2004, 'Payout, debt and takeovers in declining industries', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: firm closure, takeover, real option, managerial incentives, payout policy
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  25. Katz A and Mumford MJ, 2003, 'Comparative study of administration and administrative receivership as business rescue vehicles (executive summary)', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
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  26. Shackleton MB and Chung SL, 2003, 'On the use and improvement of Hull and White’s control variate technique', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Control variate, American option, exponential exercise boundary, static
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  27. Shackleton MB and Chung SL, 2003, 'On the errors and comparison of Vega estimation methods', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Vega, lattice approach, discretization error, smoothing
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  28. Beekes WA, 2003, 'Earnings management in response to regulatory price review. A case study of the political cost hypothesis in the water and electricity sectors in England and Wales', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Accounting accruals, earnings management, price cap regulation, regulatory review, regional electricity companies, water and sewerage companies
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  29. Beekes WA, 2003, 'Earnings management in response to a windfall-tax in the water and sewerage utility companies in England and Wales', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: Accounting Accruals, Earnings Management, Water and Sewerage Companies, Windfall Tax.
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  30. Pope PF, Gore JPO and Singh A, 2002, 'Earnings management and the distribution of earnings relative to targets: UK evidence', Lancaster University Management School Working Paper
    Keywords: accounting manipulation, discretionary accruals, earnings management.
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