ERES:conference

The paper aims to clarify the tax status of pension schemes in the UK and, by using economic and other arguments, to establish a theoretical benchmark that could be considered the ‘appropriate’ tax regime for pension saving. We consider existing tax regimes for saving (such as the ‘ISA’...

This article looks at the new arrangements for strategic land use planning policy in the English regions and the questions that these arrangements raise for the successful implementation of policy. It then turns to the case of Lyon, France, which has had a rather longer history of strategic...

The last ten years has seen an explosion of literature looking at the role of real estate in a multi-asset portfolio. There has been a more limited development of literature in the UK and US which considers how real estate fits into an asset/liability pension plan framework. This paper considers...

This paper discusses the too-big-to-fail problem from the perspective of individual banks and the financial system as a whole. It starts by exploring the potential implications of recent financial deepening and concentration, which has generated escalating expectations of state support, thereby...

At the end of 2000, France enacted major reform of its planning system in the <italic>Loi relative a` la solidarite´ et au renouvellement urbains</italic> (Loi SRU). It presented a restructuring of the instruments of land-use planning and in addition carried sections that dealt with housing policy and urban...

Legislation introducing major reform of the French planning system is now 6 years old. It was intentionally seen as part of a trio of reforming statutes that linked spatial planning to institutional reform of local government. Taking as its starting point, the idea that planning is inevitably an...

For much of the post-war period in the UK, individuals were allowed to use private pension provision to replace part of their state pension. This system was supported by all political parties but it has been eroded since the 1990s. The opportunity to ‘contract out’ of the state pension is...