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, June 1996,
Sources of inefficiency in a representative democracy : a dynamic analysis,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?,
IFS Working Papers
, W96/07
Now published:
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, Journal Articles
, Elsevier
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
Private health insurance and the state of the NHS,
Books
Tim Besley and Levenson, A, January 1996,
The role of informal finance in household capital accumulation : evidence from Taiwan,
Economic Journal,
Vol.108, pp 39-59,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, January 1996,
Private health insurance and the state of the NHS,
IFS Reports
, C052
, 978-1-873357-52-1
Tim Besley and Case, A, September 1995,
Testing the theory of moderating elections using state level data : [mimeo],
Books
Tim Besley, September 1995,
Efficient policy choice in a representative democracy,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley, John Hall and Ian Preston, September 1995,
Substitutability of public and private health insurance : evidence from Britain,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley and Coate, S, August 1995,
Legislative elections with citizen candidates : [mimeo],
Books
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