Social security systems for old age have been explicitly studied in a public choice framework for over 30 years. They illustrate extremely well the problems of allocating economic resources through a system of voting.

This paper examines the incentives facing voters to expand state pension provision and the possibilities of reducing state pension provision by increasing state pension age. As such it is of great relevance for the study of policy in ageing societies where implicit pension liabilities are increasing and will prove difficult to reduce.

The recent loss of £1.5 billion at UBS as a result of allegedly unauthorised trading raises the question as to the possible causes of this failure. Is this attributable to wrong pay incentives, failure of supervision and internal control, or is it a result of corporate culture?

Dr Gilad Livne, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, explains further based on his latest research.

This paper examines the predictive ability of gender identity congruity in explaining women's responses to advertising appeals.

This project focused on the unique setting of the UK football industry as a laboratory to examine how firms invest in employee training programmes to increase their human capital and firm productivity. Specifically, the researchers asked: does investment in purchasing football player contracts pay off?