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The Chancellor's tax and spending plans are constrained by two self-imposed fiscal rules: the golden rule and the sustainable investment rule. IFS analysis of the public finances monitors the government's performance with reference to the Treasury's fiscal rules.
Work in this area also looks at forecasts of revenue and spending and aims to inform public debate around the Budget, the Pre-Budget Report and the Spending Review. Part of this dissemination involves writing articles for a variety of non-technical publications, such as Public Finance Magazine. A full listing of news articles authored by IFS staff can be found in our press section. IFS staff carry out monthly analysis of the public finance numbers: these are distributed as press notices and can also be found in our press section. See our Budgets section for more details about Budget and related analyses. Search
Chris Giles and John Hall
The UK experience has been that forecasts of the PSBR have been beset with problems since the
Andrew W Dilnot and Paul Johnson (eds)
The briefing was prepared before the 1997 general election.
Lindsay Brook, John Hall and Ian Preston
This paper examines the role of individual and household characteristics in explaining patterns of support for higher public spending on seven of the most important public spending programmes including health, education, the police and defence.
Laura Blow, John Hall and Stephen Smith
Over the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the possibility of some measure of devolution to regional governments for at least parts of the United Kingdom.
Frank Windmeijer and Joao Santos Silva
The generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation technique is discussed for count data models with endogenous regressors.
Dag Morten Dalen and Andres Gomez Lobo
In this paper we use data on the Norwegian bus transport industry to investigate the effects of different regulatory mechanisms and their economic implications.
Laura Blow, John Hall and Stephen Smith
Devolution and regional government are once again at the centre of policy debate in Britain. This reports considers the economic issues in designing a system of regional government, and its fiscal implications for the residents of the regions of Britain.
This report studies the demand for private health insurance in the UK using data from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey.
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