Neil Kellard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3576571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Kellard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Kellard |
| SIGNATURE | KELLARD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1527-6574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women’s empowerment and child mortality
This paper investigates the nexus between women’s empowerment and child health, in particular examining whether having more rights, and which rights, leads to improvements in the well-being of children, as reflected by child mortality rates. We distinguish between civil rights, political rights, and economic rights. In our sample of 134 countries over the period 1950–2018, and employing 27 separate rights-based measures of empowerment, women’s em…
Hedge Funds and Herding Behavior
This chapter examines whether hedge funds herd, how this herding occurs, and any potential market wide effects. Bringing together the mainstream finance literature and that from a more management and sociological perspective, it is shown that hedge funds herd, although there is some evidence this is less than other large institutional investors. Mechanistically, such consensus trades occur because hedge firms communicate within tight knit cluster…
Child mortality, commodity price volatility and the resource curse
Long-Run Commodity Prices, Economic Growth, and Interest Rates
The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis
We employ a unique data set and new time-series techniques to reexamine the existence of trends in relative primary commodity prices. The data set comprises 25 commodities and provides a new historical perspective, spanning the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. New tests for the trend function, robust to the order of integration of the series, are applied to the data. Results show that eleven price series present a significant and downwa…
On the prevalence of trends in primary commodity prices
Child mortality, commodity price volatility and the resource curse
Long-Run Commodity Prices, Economic Growth, and Interest Rates
On the prevalence of trends in primary commodity prices
Women’s empowerment and child mortality
This paper investigates the nexus between women’s empowerment and child health, in particular examining whether having more rights, and which rights, leads to improvements in the well-being of children, as reflected by child mortality rates. We distinguish between civil rights, political rights, and economic rights. In our sample of 134 countries over the period 1950–2018, and employing 27 separate rights-based measures of empowerment, women’s em…
On the prevalence of trends in primary commodity prices
The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis
We employ a unique data set and new time-series techniques to reexamine the existence of trends in relative primary commodity prices. The data set comprises 25 commodities and provides a new historical perspective, spanning the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. New tests for the trend function, robust to the order of integration of the series, are applied to the data. Results show that eleven price series present a significant and downwa…
Long-Run Commodity Prices, Economic Growth, and Interest Rates
Child mortality, commodity price volatility and the resource curse
Hedge Funds and Herding Behavior
This chapter examines whether hedge funds herd, how this herding occurs, and any potential market wide effects. Bringing together the mainstream finance literature and that from a more management and sociological perspective, it is shown that hedge funds herd, although there is some evidence this is less than other large institutional investors. Mechanistically, such consensus trades occur because hedge firms communicate within tight knit cluster…
Women’s empowerment and child mortality
This paper investigates the nexus between women’s empowerment and child health, in particular examining whether having more rights, and which rights, leads to improvements in the well-being of children, as reflected by child mortality rates. We distinguish between civil rights, political rights, and economic rights. In our sample of 134 countries over the period 1950–2018, and employing 27 separate rights-based measures of empowerment, women’s em…
Economics (6 works) · Commodity (4 works) · Market Dynamics and Volatility (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Financial economics (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Child mortality (2 works) · Developing country (2 works)