In this paper a model is presented that considers the factors influencing male decisions concerning whether or not to consume, at the margin, female prostitution services.

This study provides an empirical analysis of the market for some male prostitution services in the UK. Flexible working hours, part-time working, and multiple job holding are considered as important labour market characteristics in this service sector. Statistical models helping explain the...

As a logical extension to the microeconomic analysis of human relationships, this study examines the actual method of mate search, in particular the use of personal advertisements.

As a logical extension to the microeconomic analysis of human relationships, this study examines the actual method of mate search, in particular the use of personal advertisements. Some empirical support is found for Becker's (1973,1974) explanations of mating strategy, but in relation to the...

The problem of matching relationship partners, at the aggregate level, has been modelled mathematically in the important work of Burdett and Coles (1997) and the micro matching problem was earlier studied by Gale & Shapley (1962). In this paper we propose a simple model to analyse individual...

Management of artists is a generally neglected area of cultural economics research, despite the high profile that agent-artist relations have enjoyed in the popular media and specialist music literature. This paper identifies the specific functions of agents and draws upon transaction cost...

Geroski and Walters (1995) conclude that changes in manufacturing output Granger caused changes in innovative activity and that the latter fluctuated pro-cyclically during the period 1948-83 in the UK. This note shows that their modelling method is inappropriate and results misleading....

This paper explores the use and abuse of sustainability principles in tourism development. Problems are identified which can limit the use to tourism as an element in a genuine SD strategy.

This paper provides a UK high resolution microeconometric study of parental preferences and the choice process for secondary schools. Given the particular geographical features of the region, first preference almost entirely related to one of tow state schools, which is a situation that perhaps...

This paper considers the arguments relating to the merits of continuing subsidies to the British theater arts. These are initially framed around the populist assertions typically levelled against advocates of continued subsidy.