 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Tim is Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and a Research Fellow of IFS. He is Director of STICERD and Director of the Programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy in STICERD. Tim is also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England.
All available publications
Tim Besley, Rachel Griffith and Alexander Klemm, January 2001,
Empirical evidence on fiscal interdependence in OECD countries,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley and Burgess, R, January 2001,
Political agency, government responsiveness and the role of the media,
European Economic Review,
Vol. 45, p.629-640,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, January 2000,
Public and private pension spending : principles, practice and the need for reform,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley, January 2000,
Land reform, poverty reduction and growth: evidence from India,
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol. 115, pt. 2, p.389-430,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley and Case, A, January 2000,
Unnatural experiments? Estimating the incidence of endogenous policies,
Economic Journal,
Vol. 110, p.672-687,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, May 1999,
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?,
Journal of Public Economics,
Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 15581,
Elsevier,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?,
IFS Working Papers
, W96/07
Tim Besley and Rohini Pande, October 1998,
Read my lips: the political economy of information transmission,
IFS Working Papers
, W98/13
Tim Besley and Harvey S. Rosen, August 1997,
Vertical externalities in tax settings: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes,
IFS Working Papers
, W97/23
Tim Besley and Coate, S, January 1997,
An economic model of representative democracy,
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
vol.112, p.85-114,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, Ian Preston and Ridge, M, January 1997,
Fiscal anarchy in the UK: modelling poll tax noncompliance,
Journal of Public Economics,
Vol. 64, pp.137-52,
Journal Articles
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