As student numbers in higher education in the UK have expanded during recent years, it has become increasingly important to understand its cost structure. This study applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to higher education institutions in England to assess their cost structure, efficiency and...

The Isle of Man experiences price levels which, for consumer convenience goods, are some 10% higher than those in nearby regions of the UK mainland. The observed price differentials indicate incomplete economic integration with the United Kingdom. This paper presents the results of two major...

As student numbers in higher education in the UK have expanded during recent years, it has become increasingly important to understand its cost structure. This study applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to higher education institutions in England to assess their cost structure, efficiency and...

From 1920 until nationalization, privately owned gas companies in Britain were regulated under one of three systems: the maximum price, the sliding scale, or the basic price system. In effect, the industry was the subject of a remarkable experiment in regulation. Hitherto, there has been no...

A variety of methods - including vector autoregression (Bayesian and nonBayesian) and neural networks - are used to construct models of the UK economy, and their forecasting performance is compared.