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Work in Progress.

  • Predicting SME failure in the US and UK (with E Altman and G Sabato) - Abstract
  • Financial Distress amongst MBO's (with CMBOR, University of Nottingham) - forthcoming
  • Private Equity Restructuring and Corporate Failure - in progress
  • Audit Switching Behaviour in the UK Corporate Sector - forthcoming
  • Trade Credit and the Economic Cycle - in progress

Selected Publications

  • Disequilibrium in the UK Corporate Loan Market (with CV Atanasova)
    Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol 28 Issue 3 pp 595-614, 2004
  • Value Gains on Flotation and IPO Underpricing (with Paula Hill),
    Journal of Business Finance and Accounting , Vol 33 Issue 9-10 pp1435-1459, 2006
  • Small Firm Finance: An Empirical Investigation of the Pecking Order Hypothesis (with R Watson)
    Journal of Business Finance and Accounting Vol 29, (2002)
  • Trade Credit Terms Offered by Small Firms: An Empirical Investigation (with B Summers)
    Journal of Business Finance and Accounting Vol 29 N0 4, (2002)
  • An Empirical Investigation of Trade Credit Demand (with B Summers) (2002)
    International Journal of the Economics of Business Vol 9, No 2 pp 257-270
  • Borrowing Constraints and the Demand for Trade Credit: Evidence from Panel Data (with CV Atanasova)
    Managerial and Decision Economics Vol 24, Issue 6-7, 2003
  • An Examination of the factors Associated with Bank Switching in the UK Small Firm Sector (With C Howorth and MJ Peel)
    Small Business Economics Vol 20 No 4 pp 305-317 (2003)
  • Trade Credit and Customer Relationships (with B Summers)
    Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol 24, Issue 6-7, (2003)
  • Corporate Failure Rates and the Impact of the 1986 Insolvency Act: An Econometric Analysis ( with J Lieu)
    Managerial Finance (2002) Vol 28, No 6, pp 61-71
  • The Separation of Ownership from Control and the Modelling of Directors Pay Decisions in UK SMEs: an empirical analysis (with R Watson)
    Small Business Economics Vol 24 pp 465-476, 2005
 
 
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