A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...

Since the 1980s a fundamental change of the social and economic systemin the People´s Republic of China (PRC) and in the Republic of SouthAfrica (SA) has taken place. In the development and transformation process, entrepreneurship plays an important role, and its promotion is one of the most...

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.

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...

[...]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...