Financial Secretary Stephen Timms considers Labour’s response to the financial crisis and looks forward to what his party is doing to secure the recovery.[...]

This paper develops an approach to studying how bias in favor ofone party due to the pattern of electoral districting affects policy choice.We tie a commonly used measure of electoral bias to the theory of partycompetition and show how this affects party strategy in theory. Theusefulness of the...

Starke Marken schaffen Vertrauen und haben Orientierungsfunktion in einem nur schwerüberschaubaren Produkt- und Dienstleistungsangebot. Der Erfolg einer Marke steht dabei inenger Beziehung zu der Fähigkeit, in ihrem Zielsegment immer wieder neue Maßstäbe zusetzen. Damit wird die Innovation...

’Nothing in business excites so much interest in the wider world as the pay of top executives.’ theEconomist wrote in a 2003 article titled ’Fat cats feeding - Executive pay’. Indeed, it seems thatthe dwindling heights to which CEO compensation has risen trigger stronger feelings than...