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Government Constraints and Economic Voting in Greece
Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
economic reforms imposed by the EU and the IMF. However, recent theories of accountability would predict lower levels of … international structures, government constraints and democratic accountability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686657
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Are there any Animal Spirits behind the Scenes of the Euro area Sovereign Debt Crisis?
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper reveals the underlying market’s preferences over the on going Euro area sovereign debt crisis. It builds on a loss function with reference to the ‘basis’, the difference between the spread over swap and Credit Default Swap (CDS) for sovereign bonds. This loss function is general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686658
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Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability
Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
formulation and implementation attests to the significance of legal norms in constituting new spaces of financial accountability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745916
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Government constraints and economic voting in Greece
Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
economic reforms imposed by the EU and the IMF. However, recent theories of accountability would predict lower levels of … international structures, government constraints and democratic accountability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745933
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Evaluation logics in the third sector
Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the logical framework, most significant change stories, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126472
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Term limits and electoral accountability
Smart, Michael; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters’ ability to reward politicians with re-election, appear counterproductive. We show that despite the disciplining effect of elections, term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071155
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UK economic performance since 1997: growth, productivity and jobs
Corry, Dan; Valero, Anna; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
A common view is that the performance of the UK economy between 1997 and 2010 under Labour was very weak and that the current economic problems are a consequence of poor policies in this period. In this report, we analyse the historical performance of the UK economy since 1997 compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745229
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Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes: a decomposition analysis
Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol; Washbrook, Elizabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746569
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Social comparisons, health and well-being
Clark, Andrew E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or … other aspects of economic and social life. The existence of such comparison effects with respect to income may help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126257
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One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data
Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t, for individuals with a given income level, are compared … according to the income trajectory of the individual over the previous one to nine years. Descriptive statistics are followed by … reference groups (for example, ethnicity and employment status). Fixed effects regressions allow for individual variation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126358