Working papers

Current School Working Papers are listed below.

The full working paper series (including pre-2008 papers) of the Centre for Financial Markets (CFM) ,the Centre for Information, Technology & Systems (CITO), and the Centre for Management Science & Systems (CMSS) can be obtained from the webpages for these research centres.

A complete listing of all our research publications can be found under each faculty member’s profile.


Accreditation as a Quality Tool in Public Sector Reform: The Fourth Stage of Convergence (918KB) - Download Download Accreditation as a Quality Tool in Public Sector Reform: The Fourth Stage of Convergence

Working Paper 08/01

By: Gerardine Doyle and Carolin Grampp

Accountancy Subject Area


An Empirical Study of Adoption/Non-adoption of Activity Based Costing in Hospitals in Ireland (748KB) - Download Download An Empirical Study of Adoption/Non-adoption of Activity Based Costing in Hospitals in Ireland

Working Paper 08/02

Author: Gerardine Doyle, Lisa Duffy and Melissa McCahey

Accountancy Subject Area


An Institutional Framework Analysis of Management Accounting Innovations: A Comparison of for-profit and not-for-profit health care settings (684KB) - Download Download An Institutional Framework Analysis of Management Accounting Innovations: A Comparison of for-profit and not-for-profit health care settings

Working Paper 08/03

Author: Gerardine Doyle

Accountancy Subject Area


Case Studies of ABC Adoption in Hospitals: A Comparison across Canada and Ireland (615KB) - Download Download Case Studies of ABC Adoption in Hospitals: A Comparison across Canada and Ireland

Working Paper 08/04

Author: Gerardine Doyle, Ron Eden and Michael Maingot

Accountancy Subject Area


Nurse Managers and Devolved Budgeting: An Education Gap? (890KB) - Download Download Nurse Managers and Devolved Budgeting: An Education Gap?

Working Paper 08/05

Author: Gerardine Doyle and Patricia Williamson

Accountancy Subject Area


Impression management: developing and illustrating a scheme of analysis for narrative disclosures – a methodological note (742KB) - Download Download Impression management: developing and illustrating a scheme of analysis for narrative disclosures – a methodological note

Working Paper 08/06

Author: Niamh Brennan, Encarna Guillamon-Saorin and Aileen Pierce

Accountancy Subject Area


Firm-level exchange exposure in the Eurozone (428KB) - Download Download Firm-level exchange exposure in the Eurozone

Working Paper 08/07

Author: Elaine Hutson and Anthony O’Driscoll

Banking & Finance Subject Area


The Effects of Uncertainty about Oil Prices in G-7 (659KB) - Download Download The Effects of Uncertainty about Oil Prices in G-7

Working Paper 08/08

Author: Don Bredin, John Elder and Stilianos Fountas

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Regime changes in the relationship between stock returns and the macroeconomy (499KB) - Download Download Regime changes in the relationship between stock returns and the macroeconomy

Working Paper 08/09

Author: Don Bredin, Stuart Hyde and Gerard O’Reilly

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Correlation Dynamics between Asia-Pacific, EU and US Stock Returns (2,398KB) - Download Download Correlation Dynamics between Asia-Pacific, EU and US Stock Returns

Working Paper 08/10

Author: Stuart Hyde, Don Bredin and Nghia Nguyen

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Performance in the European Union (500KB) - Download Download Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Performance in the European Union

Working Paper 08/11

Author: Don Bredin and Stilianos Fountas

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Monetary Policy & Real Estate Investment Trusts (452KB) - Download Download Monetary Policy & Real Estate Investment Trusts

Working Papers 08/12

Author: Don Bredin, Gerard O’Reilly and Simon Stevenson

Banking & Finance Subject Area


How Unlucky is 25-Sigma? (385KB) - Download Download How Unlucky is 25-Sigma?

WP 08 /13

Authors: Kevin Dowd, John Cotter, Chris Humphrey and Margaret Woods

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Spectral Risk Measures: Properties and Limitations (481KB) - Download Download Spectral Risk Measures: Properties and Limitations

WP 08 /14

Author: Kevin Dowd, John Cotter and Ghulam Sorwar

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Modeling Long Memory in REITs (643KB) - Download Download Modeling Long Memory in REITs

WP 08 /15

Author: John Cotter and Simon Stevenson

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Intra-Day Seasonality in Foreign Exchange Market Transactions (414KB) - Download Download Intra-Day Seasonality in Foreign Exchange Market Transactions

WP 08 /16

Author: John Cotter and Kevin Dowd

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Evaluating the Precision of Estimators of Quantile-Based Risk Measures (490KB) - Download Download Evaluating the Precision of Estimators of Quantile-Based Risk Measures

WP 08 /17

Author: Kevin Dowd and John Cotter

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them? (563KB) - Download Download Financial Risks and the Pension Protection Fund: Can it Survive Them?

WP 09 /01

Author: David Blake, John Cotter & Kevin Dowd

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Extreme Measures of Agricultural Financial Risk (1,396KB) - Download Download Extreme Measures of Agricultural Financial Risk

WP 09 /02

Author: John Cotter, Kevin Dowd and Wyn Morgan

Banking & Finance Subject Area


Spectral Risk Measures with an Application to Futures Clearinghouse Variation Margin Requirements (585KB) - Download Download Spectral Risk Measures with an Application to Futures Clearinghouse Variation Margin Requirements

WP 09 /03

Authors: John Cotter and Kevin Dowd

Banking & Finance Subject Area



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