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42
Citations
6446
World Ranking
5270
National Ranking
565

Overview

Michael Collins was affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned several interconnected fields, mainly focusing on business, management, and accounting, alongside economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their research included work across various subfields such as accounting, strategy and management, marketing, economics and econometrics, and finance. Topics addressed in their publications involved financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, digital platforms and economics, the sharing economy and platforms, housing market and economics, as well as housing, finance, and neoliberalism.

The list of notable recent papers by Michael Collins includes:

  • No card, no service: Challenges faced by vulnerable populations of a cashless society (2023, Business and Society Review)
  • Mortgage Broker Loan Pricing Leading Up to the Financial Crisis: Were Yield Spread Premiums the Only Problem? (2021, Housing Policy Debate)

Their frequent co-authors included Dan Horne, Keith Harvey, and Peter J. Nigro. Michael Collins was published mainly in venues such as Business and Society Review and Housing Policy Debate.

Best Publications

  • Net sediment transport patterns inferred from grain-size trends, based upon definition of “transport vectors”—reply

    Shu Gao;Michael Collins

  • Analysis of grain size trends, for defining sediment transport pathways in marine environments

    S. Gao;M.B. Collins

  • Holocene sedimentary systems on continental shelves

    S. Gao;M.B. Collins;M.B. Collins

  • The influence of clay on the threshold of movement of fine sandy beds

    I. Panagiotopoulos;G. Voulgaris;M.B. Collins

  • Oceanography and marine environment of the Basque country

    Ángel Borja;Michael Collins

  • Grain size trends associated with net sediment transport patterns: An example from the Belgian continental shelf

    S. Gao;M.B. Collins;J. Lanckneus;G. De Moor

  • A critique of the "McLaren Method" for defining sediment transport paths; discussion and reply

    Shu Gao;Michael Collins;Patrick McLaren;Donald Bowles

  • Island wakes and headland eddies: A comparison between remotely sensed data and laboratory experiments

    Charitha Pattiaratchi;Alec James;Michael B Collins

  • Investor Protection and the Value Effects of Bank Merger Announcements in Europe and the US

    Jens Hagendorff;Michael Collins;Kevin Keasey

  • Thermaikos Gulf Coastal System, NW Aegean Sea: an overview of water/sediment fluxes in relation to air–land–ocean interactions and human activities

    S.E Poulos;G.Th Chronis;M.B Collins;V Lykousis

  • Mechanisms for linear sandbank formation and maintenance in relation to dynamical oceanographic observations

    Charitha Pattiaratchi;Michael B Collins

  • Water and sediment movement in the vicinity of linear sandbanks: the Norfolk Banks, southern North Sea

    M.B. Collins;S.J. Shimwell;S. Gao;H. Powell

  • Tidally-induced Flow Structure Over Intertidal Flats

    M.B. Collins;M.B. Collins;X. Ke;X. Ke;S. Gao;S. Gao

  • Fluviatile sediment fluxes to the Mediterranean Sea: a quantitative approach and the influence of dams

    S. E. Poulos;M. B. Collins

  • Low-salinity plumes in the oceanic region of the Basque Country

    L. Ferrer;A. Fontán;J. Mader;G. Chust

  • Sediment resuspension on beaches: response to breaking waves

    G. Voulgaris;M.B. Collins

  • Tidal Inlet Equilibrium, in Relation to Cross-sectional Area and Sediment Transport Patterns

    Shu Gao;Michael Collins

  • Shelf morphology as an indicator of sedimentary regimes: A synthesis from a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate shelf on the eastern Brazilian margin

    Alex C. Bastos;Valéria S. Quaresma;Mariana B. Marangoni;Danielle P. D'Agostini

  • Settling velocities and entrainment thresholds of biogenic sands (shell fragments) under unidirectional flow

    D. Paphitis;M. B. Collins;L. A. Nash;S. Wallbridge

  • Measuring and Modelling Sediment Transport on a Macrotidal Ridge and Runnel Beach: An Intercomparison

    G. Voulgaris;D. Simmonds;D. Michel;H. Howa

  • The North-West European Shelf Seas: The sea bed and the sea in Motion - II. Physical and chemical oceanography, and physical resources

    F.T. Banner;M.B. Collins;K.S. Massie

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Gao
Shu Gao East China Normal University
Charitha Pattiaratchi
Charitha Pattiaratchi University of Western Australia
George Ferentinos
George Ferentinos University of Patras
Peter T. Harris
Peter T. Harris University of Tasmania
Michael N. Tsimplis
Michael N. Tsimplis City University of Hong Kong
David A. Huntley
David A. Huntley Plymouth University
Cathy H. Lucas
Cathy H. Lucas University of Southampton
João Alveirinho Dias
João Alveirinho Dias University of Algarve
Alejandro Cearreta
Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country

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