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Autor:
Timothy Besley, Sacha Dray
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 5, p e0267611 (2022)
We study changes in social distancing and government policy in response to local outbreaks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using aggregated county-level data from approximately 20 million smartphones in the United States, we show that social distancing
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/44338237fb6849598f139ddc6f59d952
Autor:
Timothy Besley, Rajshri Jayaraman
Leading scholars examine political, legal, social, and market institutions through a microeconomic lens.The narrative of development economics is now infused with discussions of institutions. Economists debate whether institutions—or other factors
Autor:
Timothy Besley
What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own?
Autor:
Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson
Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases may be almost impossible without a green transition—a substantial transformation of consumption and production patterns. To study such transitions, we propose a dynamic model, which differs from the common
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6b9a1b90a9b483ce87fa8c538bcd2240
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/117946/
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/117946/
Autor:
Timothy Besley, Sacha Dray
This paper studies the role of free media in how governments and the public responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. We first document the presence of policy and behavioural responsiveness during the early phase of the pandemic. Using a panel data of dail
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d0b8a767cea8c6fe3f6df6a364e0cad9
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/117975/
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/117975/
Autor:
Timothy Besley
Publikováno v:
Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 37:720-733
This paper argues that a distinctive form of capitalism, cohesive capitalism, emerged in the post-war period supporting the wellbeing of its citizens through building state capacities alongside open and democratic forms of government. The paper ident
Autor:
Timothy Besley, Sacha Dray
Publikováno v:
WIDER Working Paper.
Autor:
Timothy Besley, Wouter denHaan, Maitreesh Ghatak, Daniel Gottlieb, Stephen Machin, Henry Overman, Noam Yuchtman
Publikováno v:
Economica. 89
Publikováno v:
Annual Review of Economics. 12:1-21
This conversation between Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton, moderated by Annual Review of Economics Editorial Committee Member Tim Besley, focuses on bringing ethical issues into economics, and the implications that this has for the pract