Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve high quality while leading to a number of capacity...

Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy`s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

Ziel der Studie ist es, den Einfluß fiskalischer Rahmenbedingungen auf dierelative Vorteilhaftigkeit alternativer Formen der Kapitalanlage unter besondererBerücksichtigung von Wohnungsinvestitionen zu ermitteln. Auf einemKapitalmarkt in einer Welt ohne jegliche Staatseingriffe müßten die...

This paper uses the case study example of the recent application by British Aerospace (BAe) for£25m in Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) for its Broughton facility in North Wales andsubsequent granting of £19.5 m in assorted grant aid, to illustrate some of the wider regionalpolicy issues...

Im Rahmen des letzten „Gesundheitschecks“ der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der Eu-ropäischen Union (EU) wurden die Direktzahlungen an die Landwirte reduziert und die damit eingesparten Mittel für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raumes zur Verfü-gung gestellt (EUROPÄISCHE KOMMISSION 2009a)....

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...