This paper analyzes self-control problems in intertemporal consumption of a sin good where current consumption imposes a negative externality on one's future selves due to the existence of present-biased preferences. We introduce the negative externality dubbed 'internality', which is augmented...

This paper offers a novel way of looking at airline alliances by integrating the concept into the study of regional arrangements like common markets or free trade areas. Not unlike a country wishing to join an established common market, an airline seeking admission to an airline alliance seeks...

We look at the different ways of aggregating dual use products exports to give the security perception of exporter countries and their consistency with the relevant export control regimes. Also, we analyze different models of export controls highlighting the role of the perception of security,...

This paper estimates the Exchequer costs of nurse training in England. Exchequer costs consist of expenditure by the state through DHSS and the NHS. These outlays are estimated for the training of both:- (i) Registered General Nurses (RGN) which requires three years' training as a General...

This paper assesses the UK aerospace industry’s competitiveness. Various statistical indicators are used to measure competitiveness, based on published data at the industry and firm level. The indicators include productivity, output, firm size, development time-scales, labour hoarding, exports...

I explore here the dialectic of formal and informal economy in the context of "development" dis-course over the last four decades. It would not be hard, in post-colonial Africa for example, to conceive of this dialectic as a war waged by the bureaucracy on the people, allowing informal economic...