Savings behaviour and interest rates in an overlapping generation model.

Professor Ray Barrell | Economics | 01 April 1995

Abstract: savings behaviour over the 1970s and 1980s suggests that interest rates have a significant effect on decisions, as the wealth to income ratio nearly halved in the period of low interest rates in the 1970s. Individuals are usually assumed to ...

Multivariate aspects of structural time series models

01 April 1986

Considerable work has been carried out on methods for analysing and modelling individual time series of observations. These methods have been relatively successful in the practical area of forecasting economic and social time series. Modelling severa ...

A democratic audit of the institutions of european integration

Professor Chris Lord | Political Science and International Relations | 01 October 1999

The research will adapt established democratic audit methodology to the evaluation of the following six institutional constellations of european integration: the 3 pillars of the european union (eu) , the european central bank (ecb), instances of fl ...

Communication processes within and around flashpoints of public disorder

Mr Crichter | 01 November 1982

This project examines the role played by communication in aspects of crowd behaviour, in particular its effect on potential disorder. This involves consideration of how crowds come to be formed, the way a crowd communica ...

The british general election of 1987-8

Dr Butler | 01 June 1986

This project continues the series of volumes which was begun in 1945 and which provides another special political history of postwar britain. Dr d butler, who has been associated with these works since the beginning, is once again collaborating with ...

Understanding racial harassment in school

Professor Satnam Virdee | Sociology | 01 February 1998

Despite the fact that there has been an increasing amount of research in recent years on racial harassment in general, and that the school has been the site of much race relations research, it remains the case that relatively little is known about th ...

Refugee migration & household livelihood strategies: the case of zambia

Human Geography | 01 August 1990

In recent years, zambia has received a growing number of refugees from the continuing civil war in mozambique. By early 1990, it was estimated that as many as 30,000 mozambicans were accommodated in the ukwimi refugee settlement, in eastern province. ...

Literacy for migrants: an ethnography of literacy acquisition by gujarati nomads

Dr Caroline Dyer | Education | 01 September 1993

Application abstract: varying experiences of literacy programmes over the years reveal a lack of consensus about the term literacy. This study adopts a perspective which sees literacy not as desirable per se, but as a particular variety of language b ...

Health and economic change in poland

Dr Peggy Watson | Sociology | 01 December 1991

The research was designed to generate information concerning social differentials in mortality in poland, with a view to gaining insight as to varying health effects of economic change in eastern europe. To this end, the study followed, with 99. 7 pe ...

Countryside 88 video disc

Prof Newby | 01 November 1987