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Responding to the housing and financial crises: mortgage lending, mortgage products and government policies

Scanlon, Kathleen; Lunde, Jens; Whitehead, Christine M. E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The long period of house price growth in markets across the world ended with the US and global financial crisis of 2007/08. The crisis and the consequent recession had profound effects on mortgage market actors – including households, institutions and governments – in most advanced...

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Redistributive taxation and public expenditures

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Esteban, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. Besides redistributing personal income by means of taxes and transfers, the government supplies goods and services. The government chooses the tax schedule that is found acceptable by the largest share possible of the...

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Immigration and the UK labour market: the latest evidence from economic research

Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of...

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Healthcare reform: the US policy debate

Cooper, Zack - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The ability of the next US president to rein in spending on healthcare and improve the productivity of the healthcare system is largely going to determine the country’s fiscal future. That is one of the conclusions of the latest in a series of US Election Analyses , published by the Centre for...

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Immigration, the European union and the UK labour market

Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have...

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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...

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Integrated EUA and CER price modeling and application for spread option pricing

Barrieu, Pauline; Fehr, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we propose a market consistent futures price dynamics model for cap-andtrade schemes, designed in the spirit of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Historical price dynamics for the EU ETS suggest that, both, European emission Allowances (EUAs) and Certified...

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Pollution permits, strategic trading and dynamic technology adoption

Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago; Taschini, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

a self-financing policy (based on convex risk measures) is proposed and implemented. …

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Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability

Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The civil liability regime for ship-source oil pollution stands at the forefront of rule development for transnational environmental compensation, advancing private law remedies to enable national victims of oil spill damage to make financial claims against domestic and non-domestic tanker...

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …

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