 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, John Hall and Ian Preston, August 1995,
The response of private health insurance to public sector quality : evidence from Britain [mimeo],
Books
Tim Besley, June 1995,
Risk sharing institutions in low-income countries : contracts, information and mechanism design,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley, March 1995,
Does electoral accountability affect economic policy choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial Term Limits,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley, January 1995,
Non-market institutions for credit and risk-sharing in low- income countries,
Journal of Economic Perspectives,
pp.115-127,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley and Coate, S, January 1995,
An economic model of representative democracy,
University of Pennsylvania,
Books
Tim Besley and Coate, S, January 1995,
Efficient policy choice in a representative democracy : a dynamic analysis [working paper],
University of Pennsylvania,
Books
Tim Besley, January 1995,
Savings, credit and insurance,
in Handbook of Development Economics vol.3a North Holland,
Book Chapters
Tim Besley, Ian Preston and Ridge, M, January 1995,
Fiscal anarchy in the UK: modelling poll tax compliance,
Conference Papers
Tim Besley and Case, A, January 1995,
Incumbent behaviour: vote seeking, tax setting and yardstick competition,
American Economic Review,
Vol. 85, pp. 25-45,
Journal Articles
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