 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 and Case, A, January 1995,
Does electoral accountability affect economic policy choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial term limits,
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol.110, pp 769-798,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley and Coate, S, January 1995,
The design of income maintenance programs,
Review of Economic Studies,
Vol.62, pp 187-221,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley and Jewitt, I, January 1995,
Uniform taxation and consumer preferences,
Journal of Public Economics,
Vol.58, pp 73-84,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, January 1995,
Property rights and investment incentives: evidence from Ghana,
Journal of Political Economy,
Vol.103, No.5, pp 903-937,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley and Case, A, January 1994,
Unnatural experiments? Estimating the incidence of endogenous policies : [working paper],
National Bureau for Economic Research,
Books
Tim Besley, January 1994,
Three approaches to public economics,
International Tax and Public Finance,
Vol. 1, pp. 197-204,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley and Gouveia, M, January 1994,
Alternative systems of health care provision,
Economic Policy,
Vol.19, pp 200-258,
Journal Articles
Tim Besley, Ian Preston and Ridge, M, January 1993,
Fiscal anarchy in the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W93/18
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