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BMJ | 8 SepteMBer 2007 | VoluMe 335 Zosia Kmietowicz london The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the United Kingdom’s fertility watchdog, will decide this week whether to approve in principle the use of hybrid animal-human embryos for research. Results of a public consultation on the matter, which were released before the authority’s decisive meeting that was due to be held on Wedn...

Government formation in a two dimensional policy space

Given any allocation of parliament seats among parties, we characterize all the stable government configurations (supported by at least a majority of the parliament) in terms of winning coalitions and policy outcomes. We consider a two dimensional policy space and we assume that there are four parties that care mainly about holding office, and only instrumentally about policy. We find that for ...

The effect of fiscal policy on social welfare due to government spending shocks, monetary and productivity

The most important issue for policymakers in optimal policy-making is to choose the tools that bring the equilibrium output to the desired level, with the least volatile income fluctuation. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of favorable fiscal policies on social welfare and business cycle management for the Iranian economy with respect to government spending shocks, m...