Commentators have explored the Supreme Court's certiorari process in detail, examining the practice through doctrinal, historical, empirical, and even economic lenses. Similarly, a few commentators have attempted to analyze the relationship between the Supreme Court and the lower courts using...

Do opportunities in Parliament to improve and demonstrate effectiveness as lawmakers help politicians take up new posts in their parties and in government? We examine this question by leveraging a natural experiment in the United Kingdom where randomly selected twenty MPs are given an...

Following on from a paper by Yoshiharu Oritani, Public Governance of Central Banks: An Approach from New Institutional Economics. Public governance is an institutional framework whereby the general public governs a central bank by and through the legislative and executive bodies in a country....

The literature on the behavior of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has focused on static voting patterns. We find statistical support for a dynamic pattern using a panel reaction function to analyze MPC votes over the 1997-2008 period. We find that internal and external...

Having read Public Governance of Central Banks by Yoshiharu Oritani and looking at the UK in particular I am proposing a model where all government money is held in a central series of bank accounts using the structure of recently nationalised banks and the post office branches to be used as a...

The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Brexit will involve many complex negotiations. This paper analyses the negotiation position of the parties (UK, EU, Member States) based on a set of four key negotiation factors: agreement options, non-agreement alternatives, interests, and...

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...