<italic>The Northern Ireland health service faces major restructuring at a time of extreme fiscal austerity. This paper assesses the capacity of the service's administration to meet this challenge, focusing on past distribution of resources across programmes of care. The central finding is that...</italic>

The low-income credit union modelled in this paper is an institution with a particular form of contract designed to allow it to operate among agents that are excluded from using banks. Specifically credit unions deal with those potentially on the minimum income guarantee. The challenge facing...

A priori, we argue that the period under study is characterised by two distinct regimes. Initially, Non-executive director appointments take place within a regulationist context. In the latter period such board changes occur in a Laissez-faire environment. The empirical analysis suggests that...

Purpose – While existing UK studies conduct a cross-sectional analysis, this paper seeks to argue that the ratio of Executive Directors to non-executive director (NED) on the boards of UK firms, coupled with a gradual appointment process, motivated by firms’ desire to comply with the...

Purpose – While existing UK studies conduct a cross‐sectional analysis, this paper seeks to argue that the ratio of Executive Directors to non‐executive director (NED) on the boards of UK firms, coupled with a gradual appointment process, motivated by firms’ desire to comply with the...

Using data from the Northern Ireland Household Panel survey we demonstrate that attendance at outpatients is determined solely by respondent health. This is consistent with the GP acting as a gatekeeper to other services. Attendance thus provides valuable information on illness severity....