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...

[...]Like the other countries examined, the United Kingdomadopted inflation targets after a successful disinflation.Unlike these countries, however, the UnitedKingdom took this step in the aftermath of a foreignexchange rate crisis in order to restore a nominalanchor and to lock in past...

A one-to-one link is developed between overlapping sub-regional entities using geographi-cal tools newly available to the Economic Research Community. The aim of this project is tocreate a database exploiting the geographical variation in publicly available data, in order tobetter control for...

This paper pinpoints the development of the Commission's policy on rail infrastructure charges through to Directive 2001/14.

This paper emphasizes the elements of good practice, which are important to the implementation of road user charging concerning the process of the implementation of travel plans.