Economics & Finance: Recent submissions
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Universities and fundamental research: reflections on the growth of university-industry partnership
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, 2002) - Working or discussion paperThe recent rise in university-industry partnerships has stimulated an important public policy debate regarding how these relationships affect fundamental research. In this paper, we examine the antecedents and consequences ... -
The cost of political intervention in monetary policy
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperData from a unique monetary ‘experiment’ conducted in the UK during the period 1994-97 are used to investigate the cost of political intervention in monetary policy. The paper finds that the difference between government ... -
Taxation, unemployment and working time in models of economic growth
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001-08) - Working or discussion paperThis paper combines collective bargaining over wages and working time with models of endogenous and neoclassical growth. Public expenditure is funded by taxes on capital and labour supplied by infinitely-lived households ... -
Welfare, growth and environment: a sceptical review of the skeptical environmentalist (Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge University Press, 2001)
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, 2002) - Working or discussion paperIn his wide ranging attempt to review the literature on economic development and welfare in relation to the environment, Lomborg claims balance and objectivity, but actually presents a thoroughly misleading picture of ... -
Heterogeneous beliefs and instability
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperWhile Rational Expectations have dominated the paradigm of expectations formation, they have been more recently challenged on the empirical ground such as, for instance, in the dynamics of the exchange rate. This challenge ...