"Access for All" is a United Kingdom government funded programme to make stations more accessible for people with disabilities by providing step free access along with complementary measures such as improved wayfinding information. Steer Davies Gleave was commissioned to evaluate the programme...

Dieser Bericht gibt, basierend auf bereits vorliegenden Beiträgen zum Thema Brexit, eine Übersicht über die möglichen Folgen des EU-Austritts von Großbritannien für die zukünftigen Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Großbritannien und der Europäischen Union. Ein Blick auf die Handelsbilanzen...

In recent years, the Indian Government has taken several policy initiatives to promote organic farming and organic food exports. Such measures are expected to enrich soil quality; attain sustainable development goals; ensure health and food safety for consumers; increase farmer's income and link...

Ziel dieses Diskussionspapiers ist es, den Einfluss von individuellen und institutionellen Charakteristika auf Niedrigeinkommensmobilität von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland und im Vereinigten Königreich (UK) zu analysieren. Hierzu werden Daten de SOEP (2000-2009)...

The primary purpose of the paper is to analyze the conditional correlations, conditional covariances, and co-volatility spillovers between international crude oil and associated financial markets. The paper investigates co-volatility spillovers (namely, the delayed effect of a returns shock in...

Die Entscheidung für einen Brexit hat die Konjunkturängste innerhalb und außerhalb Europas verstärkt. Die Auswirkungen der mit dieser Entscheidung verbundenen ökonomischen Unsicherheit auf den Euroraum und die deutsche Wirtschaft lassen sich mit ökonometrischen Methoden abschätzen. Einer...

Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...

Home buyers in Germany not only have to pay high down payments for financing their property, but they also have to pay high transaction costs. Besides the transaction tax, also notary fees and the entry in the land register sum up to a considerable amount. The cases of the Netherlands and the...

Das Vereinigte Königreich wird allem Anschein nach die Europäische Union verlassen. Wie die institutionelle Verbindung zwischen den beiden Regionen zukünftig aussehen wird, ist zurzeit jedoch noch kaum abzuschätzen.

The British referendum might be a game changer for financial centres competitiveness. The City of London might lose business after Brexit as the United Kingdom loses access to the European Union’s (EU) single market. But London might stay competitive as a global offshore financial centre as...

Da die Briten mehrheitlich für einen Austritt aus der EU gestimmt haben, wird jetzt über Alternativen zur Mitgliedschaft diskutiert. Zu den verschiedenen Möglichkeiten zählen die Modelle Norwegen, Schweiz, Türkei und die WTO-Mitgliedschaft, die jeweils mit unterschiedlichen Konsequenzen...

The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...

This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to...

The UK exit from the EU represents a qualitative change in the nature of EU membership. On the one hand, it conveyed the lesson that for the Union to be sustainable, membership needs to entail constant caretaking as far as individual members' contributions to the common good are concerned, with...

The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle". If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...

The UK government is part-way through significant cuts in spending on public services as it attempts to deal with the large hole in the UK's public finances. As part of this, grants from the UK Treasury to the Welsh Government have been reduced in real terms each year since 2009-10, and the...

Have bank regulatory policies and unconventional monetary policies - and any possible interactions - been a factor behind the recent "deglobalisation" in cross-border bank lending? To test this hypothesis, we use bank-level data from the United Kingdom - a country at the heart of the global...

Unconventional monetary policies (UMPs) by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan exert important spillover effects on asset prices in Switzerland if market anticipation of UMP announcements is properly accounted for. Using a broad event set and...