Our Working Paper Series (WPS) aims to disseminate research output from school staff and doctoral students at Westminster Business School.
Working Papers constitute work-in-progress research. They are published to stimulate discussion and contribute to the spread of knowledge across a wide range of research areas.
All papers will be published electronically.
How to submit your paper
Before submitting your paper, you should contact your relevant School Research Leader for approval. Once you have the endorsement of your School Research Leader send your paper to Rebeca Muñoz at [email protected]
School of Applied Management
Fefie Dotsika
[email protected]
Ext. 66513
School of Finance and Accounting
Sheeja Sivaprasad
[email protected]
Ext. 66508
School of Management and Marketing
Jose L. Ruiz-Alba Robledo
[email protected]
Ext. 66764
School of Organisations, Economy and Society
Elisabeth Michielsens
[email protected]
Ext. 66525
Style guidelines
The series does not adopt a particular style, but here are some general guidelines.
- Use a concise and recognised writing style
- Line spacing should be 1.5; text should be justified with normal margins
- Papers should include a full list of references for works cited
- Harvard style of referencing is preferred
- Submit papers in PDF format
- The cover page should include: (i) the paper title, name of author(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email address(es); (ii) a short abstract of no more than 200 words and (iii) Up to five keywords
Papers
2024
The role of employability development opportunities in closing the social gap in the finance sector: A case study of a post-1992 UK business school
Paper number: 2024/003
Authors: Julie Ayton, Daniel Belcher, Gerasim Hristov, Sylvia Snijders
Strategic responses to institutional factors - investigation into waste management social enterprises in India
Paper number: 2024/002
Author: Sumita Kektar
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: the changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men
Paper number: 2024/001
Author: Sabine D'Costa
2023
Are universities doing enough to close the social gap in elite financial professions? A case study of a post-1992 UK business school
Paper number: 2023/002
Authors: Julie Ayton, Daniel Belcher and Gerasim Hristov
Skewness in energy returns: estimation, testing and implications for tail risk
Paper number: 2023/001
Authors: M. Ángeles Carnero, Ángel León and Trino-Manuel Ñíguez
2022
Does compulsory schooling impact labour market outcomes? Evidence from the 1993 Educational Reform in Mexico
Paper number: 2022/002
Authors: Erendira Leon-Bravo
Investigating the ‘mission and profit’ paradox – Case study of an ecopreneurial organisation in India
Paper number: 2022/001
Authors: Sumita Ketkar and Roma Puri
2021
Polynomial adjusted Student-t densities for modeling asset returns
Paper number: 2021/001
Authors: Ángel León and Trino-Manuel Ñíguez
2020
Convergence on ASEAN
Paper number: 2020/005
Authors: Chang Yee Kwan, Issam Malki
Backtesting VaR under the COVID-19 Sudden Changes in Volatility
Paper number: 2020/004
Authors: Brenda Castillo, Ángel León and Trino-Manuel Ñíguez
Copula Methods for Evaluating Relative Tail Forecasting Performance
Paper number: 2020/003
Authors: Ángel León and Trino-Manuel Ñíguez
On the Dynamics of Income Inequality
Paper number: 2020/002
Authors: Atanu Goshray, Issam Malki and Javier Ordoñez
Modeling asset returns under transformed Gram-Charlier
Paper number: 2020/001
Authors: Ángel León and Trino-Manuel Ñíguez
2019
Pre-apprenticeship training for young people: estimating the marginal and average treatment effects
Paper number: 2019/003
Authors: Richard Dorsett and Lucy Stokes
Basic Income as a Policy Lever: A Case Study of Crime in Alaska
Paper number: 2019/002
Authors: Richard Dorsett
Divergence and Clubs Convergence of the Global Energy
Paper number: 2019/001
Authors: Issam Malki and Atanu Goshray
2018
Censoring and Instrumental Variable Estimation: Biases in Estimates of the Relationship between Father’s and Children’s Years of Education
Paper 2018/006
Authors: Richard Dorsett, Cinzia Rienzo, Martin Weale
Flexible Distribution Functions, Higher-order Preferences and Optimal Portfolio Allocation
Paper: 2018/005
Authors: Trino-Manuel Ñíguez, Ivan Paya, David Peel, Javier Perote
Time-varying SNP distribution and portfolio performance
Paper: 2018/004
Authors: Trino-Manuel Ñíguez, Angel Leon
The Portfolio Balance Channel: An Analysis on the impact of Quantitative Easing on the US Stock Market
Paper: 2018/003
Authors: Issam Malki, Francesca Schmidt-Fischer, Imran Hussain Shah
Revisiting the Antisocial Punishment across Societies Experiment
Paper: 2018/002
Authors: Issam Malki, Pablo Lucas
A Note on the Wage Effects of the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Paper: 2018/001
Authors: Franz Buscha, Matt Dickson