This article examines the relative influence of socio-economic variables versus attitudes as regards to consumer behavior towards book reading as a leisure activity. Previous studies on leisure consider the amount of discretionary time available to the individual as a decisive factor. This study...

In this paper, cluser analytic techniques are used to examine dimentions of diversification in UK commercial real estate markets.

In an endogenous tariff setting, the entry of foreign-owned capital has ambiguous effects on the level of protection. In the presence of trade-promoting and trade-neutral foreign capital, lobbying pressures for a higher tariff are lower whereas if foreign capital is trade-substituting,...

The paper reviews the evolution in insurance economics over the past 25 years, by first recalling the situation in 1973, then presenting the developments and new approaches which flourished since then. The paper argues that these developments were only possible because steady advances were made...