This report, developed in collaboration with the United Kingdom's National Shipbuilding Office, provides an in-depth assessment of the opportunities and challenges facing the UK shipbuilding and ship repair industry. Building on detailed analysis of global market trends, peer economies and...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical foundations of peer and network effects, aiming to bridge insights from both literatures. We first analyze the microfoundations of peer effects through linear-quadratic network games, linking equilibrium behavior to network centrality and...

The geometric distribution, celebrated for its memory-less property and constant failure rate, is a cornerstone in reliability analysis, life testing, and the modelling of discrete-time phenomena. This paper explores the penalized estimation of Shannon and Past Entropy using complete samples and...

We study heterogeneity in the effects of a pension reform in Germany: the introduction of the old-age pension for the very long-term insured, which lowered the threshold for full pension receipt from age 65 to 63. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD) and rich administrative pension...

Despite automatic enrolment in work pension schemes, private saving for pensions in the UK is relatively low, with most people under-pensioned in later life and reliant on the state pension. In this book, Hayley James shows that equally significant is that women save far less for old age than...