Red tape strangles basic research grants

Red tape threatens noncommercial research in Europe.

Red tape and corruption

We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal–bureaucrat– agent hierarchy. The principal is to provide the agent with a unit of a good that involves externalities so that market mechanisms fail to achieve first best. Red tape produces information but is costly to the agent and is administered by a corrupt bureaucrat. First, the bureaucrat may extort bribes fro...

Research Grants Studies

Section 1110 of the Social Security Act provides for a cooperative research grants program. The grants given by the Social Security Administration (SSA) under this program are to nonprofit organizations for research in the broad area of social security. Reports on six recently completed grants projects are summarized below, accompanied by a list of completed SSA research grants projects, with t...

Research Grants Studies

Section 1110 of the Social Security Act provides for a cooperative research grants program. The grants given by the Social Security Administration under this program are to nonprofit organizations for research in the broad area of social security. Reports on two recently completed grants projects are summarized below. Similar summaries will be published in the BULLETIN as the projects are concl...

Just cut the red tape.

I spoke recently to non-UK nursing students and newly qualified nurses about their experience of the immigration process. They described similar feelings of frustration, discrimination and uncertainty to my own.