[...]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...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier stellt das angelsächsische Board-Modell am Beispiel Großbritannien vor.

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.

Wenn von Reformen der Gesellschaft oder demUmbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates die Rede ist, sindwirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge und soziale Veränderungsprozessenicht die alleinigen Faktoren,die in politischen Maßnahmen zu berücksichtigensind. Die Vorstellungen über die ideale Gesellschaft,die...

This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who do notparticipate in the labor market are unable to borrow. Thus an increase in a fullyfunded pension raises aggregate savings even with a fixed participation rate, sinceprivate savings are not crowded out one-for-one....

This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....