Do People Deserve their Economic Rents?

Did Nonpar Banks Earn Economic Rents ?

The payment functions of central banks vary among nations. Some central banks provide only limited payment services, such as issuing and redeeming currency and facilitating settlement among members of payments systems by transferring reserve balances.1 In the United States, the Federal Reserve has been a provider of payment services since the early 1900s. By 1918, the Fed had acquired a large s...

How Do People Organise Their Photographs?

Increasing use of digital cameras will lead to more people having large personal collections of digital photographs. The study described in this paper set out to gain some insight into how computer-based systems to help people organise these images might be designed. Firstly, taking inspiration from earlier work by others on the management of personal documents, we interviewed people about the ...

National Health Insurance: what the people want, need and deserve!

Why Do More People Die during Economic Expansions?

* The authors are all with the University of California, Davis. Ann Huff Stevens is an economics professor and director of the Center for Poverty Research. Douglas L. Miller is an assistant professor of economics. Marianne Page is a professor of economics. Mateusz Filipski is a postdoctoral scholar in the agricultural and resource economics department. This brief is adapted from a longer workin...

The spatial pattern of target rents and their relationship with actual rents, 2002/03

This Briefing Paper describes the spatial pattern of target rents across England and the extent to which target rents differ from actual rents. It also assesses whether the patterns vary across property sizes and across HA size, as well as across regions and districts. • Target rents are highest in London and above the national average of £60.44 per week in the South East and the East of Englan...