Iain Begg
Biographic Data
| ID | 253063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Begg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Begg |
| SIGNATURE | BEGG I |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Enhancing Europe’s Power: A Rejoinder
This rejoinder responds to the eight comments to our report on ‘Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals’. We address questions related to our definition of Europe, the notion of power, context and appropriateness of the scenario approach, the feasibility of enhancing European power, the rationale behind the proposed eight measures as well as the way ahead. Finally, we highlight green policies together with media …
Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals
In the present context of intensifying competition between the major trading economies and potentially game‐changing technological developments, the European Union is generally seen as the weaker party. Lacking the ‘hard power’ derived from military capabilities, it has laid claim to a ‘soft power’ of normative influence externally, yet even that is only partially utilised. Nor has Europe been able to exercise the power to coerce – ‘sharp power’ …
Responses to the Covid-19 Economic Crisis: Challenges for Global Governance
The deepening economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has elicited extensive policy responses, but also raises daunting challenges for global governance. This policy-oriented article explores the new challenges for multilateralism, assesses efforts to coordinate these policy responses, and considers likely outcomes
Beyond Brexit: Reshaping policies for regional development in Europe
Cohesion policy after Brexit: The Economic, Social and Institutional Challenges
Since 1988, when the current EU Cohesion Policy was introduced, it has played an influential role in setting priorities for policies aimed at dealing with the effects of European economic integration on regional and social disparities. Although, latterly, the amount of money spent in the UK through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) has declined, EU programmes have had a disproportionate effect on the design and implementation of…
L’économie de l’investissement social
La mise en œuvre de l’investissement social suppose une analyse économique rigoureuse. Elle doit permettre de montrer en quoi une dépense de protection sociale à un moment donné ne se limite pas à une consommation, c’est-à-dire à un transfert monétaire simple que les physiciens qualifieraient de « dissipatif », car il n’aurait qu’un effet à court terme. La notion d’investissement suppose au contraire que les sommes mises en jeu produisent un effe…
EMU and Sustainable Integration
This paper considers what will be required to make Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) sustainable following the successive crises of recent years. It starts by laying out the policy benchmark, namely the successive ‘President Reports’ produced by EU institutions. It then suggests three dimensions of sustainable integration relevant to EMU, namely the pursuit of sustainable growth, the need to take into account what we call ‘varieties of modernisat…
Europe and National Economic Transformation: The EU After the Lisbon Decade
Economic and Social Governance in the Making: EU Governance in Flux
Although there has been relatively little change in the constitutional provisions for socio‐economic governance since the Treaty on European Union came into force in 1993, much has changed in the w
Cohesion or Confusion: A Policy Searching for Objectives
Cohesion is an important EU policy domain that was originally primarily about regional development, but which has since acquired wider objectives. This article examines the definition of cohesion and how cohesion policy has evolved in the EU. It then looks at the impact of cohesion policy as a process in European integration, before focusing on possible reforms of cohesion policy. Five main dimensions of reform explored are the underlying remit o…
Regulation and Supervision of Financial Intermediaries in the EU: The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
The financial crisis has reopened debate on the architecture of financial regulation and prudential supervision in the EU, calling into question the home country control principle that has prevailed since the mid‐1980s. This article discusses how the growth of cross‐border financial intermediation can best be regulated to limit the ensuing risks of financial contagion. It argues that a supranational supervisory system is now needed for some inter…
Is there a Convincing Rationale for the Lisbon Strategy?9
Contested Meanings of Transparency in Central Banking
Can Fiscal Policy Co‐ordination be Made to Work Effectively
EMU and Cohesion: Introduction
Urban Competitiveness: Policies for Dynamic Cities
Introduction: EU social (exclusion) policy revisited
Since the mid-1990s, several steps have been taken towards an integration of social policy in the EU. Yet there is reluctance in many quarters to go further. This article introduces the special issue on integration of EU social policy and explores the case for more comprehensive `Europeanization'. We argue that the norms that underlie the European model provide the rationale for integration, and that the usual focus on the undoubted differences b…
Investability: The Key to Competitive Regions and Cities
This article proposes and develops a concept - investability - that can be used for analysing the competitive position of cities or regions, and formulating policy responses. It can be defined as conditions that are conducive to a higher level of investment and refers principally to the business environment in which economic agents operate. The paper discusses various influences on investment decisions and how they will impinge on different class…
Reshaping the EU Budget: Yet Another Missed Opportunity
In the early morning of 26 March 1999, the EU’s heads of state and of government emerged from a marathon meeting to unveil the Financial Perspective for the period 2000-2006. Six weeks later, the deal was formally approved by the European Parliament by a 2-1 majority. The outcome should, therefore, be that the EU’s finances are secure for the next seven years. That a deal was reached may, at first sight, seem surprising, as the auguries were not …
Regional Adjustment Mechanisms under EMU
The implications of the European monetary union for regional development: Rejoinder to the comments by Ron Boschma
Cities and Competitiveness
Improved competitiveness, as we all know, is the path to economic nirvana. Plainly, it is a sought after property of any economy: the term trips frequently off the lips of politicians and commentators on economic and business matters. As cities increasingly engage in competition with one another at different levels, the determinants of competitive advantage are coming under intense scrutiny. Many
Policy assignment in the European union
EMU will see a re‐allocation of responsibility between different tiers of government for different elements of economic policy, yet policy assignment in the EU often reflects political compromises rather than dispassionate analysis or principles. This article explores the arguments for assigning responsibility for economic policy to different tiers of government in the EU. In the light of these arguments, the case for re‐assigning policy for prud…
Flexible integration: Towards a more effective and democratic Europe
Journal Article Flexible integration: towards a more effective and democratic Europe Get access Flexible integration: towards a more effective and democratic Europe. Monitoring European Integration 6. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. 1995. 190pp. Pb.: £10.00. ISBN 1 898128 22 7. Iain Begg Iain Begg 1South Bank University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3,…
The European Union and the regions
Journal Article The European Union and the regions Get access The European Union and the regions. Edited by Barry Jonesand Michael Keating. Oxford: Clarendon. 1995. 306pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 19 827999 x. Iain Begg Iain Begg 1South Bank University, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Page 396, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624410 Published: 01 April 19…
Cities and Competitiveness
Improved competitiveness, as we all know, is the path to economic nirvana. Plainly, it is a sought after property of any economy: the term trips frequently off the lips of politicians and commentators on economic and business matters. As cities increasingly engage in competition with one another at different levels, the determinants of competitive advantage are coming under intense scrutiny. Many
Cohesion or Confusion: A Policy Searching for Objectives
Cohesion is an important EU policy domain that was originally primarily about regional development, but which has since acquired wider objectives. This article examines the definition of cohesion and how cohesion policy has evolved in the EU. It then looks at the impact of cohesion policy as a process in European integration, before focusing on possible reforms of cohesion policy. Five main dimensions of reform explored are the underlying remit o…
Regulation and Supervision of Financial Intermediaries in the EU: The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
The financial crisis has reopened debate on the architecture of financial regulation and prudential supervision in the EU, calling into question the home country control principle that has prevailed since the mid‐1980s. This article discusses how the growth of cross‐border financial intermediation can best be regulated to limit the ensuing risks of financial contagion. It argues that a supranational supervisory system is now needed for some inter…
The Service Sector in Regional Development
(1993). The Service Sector in Regional Development. Regional Studies: Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 817-825
Introduction: EU social (exclusion) policy revisited
Since the mid-1990s, several steps have been taken towards an integration of social policy in the EU. Yet there is reluctance in many quarters to go further. This article introduces the special issue on integration of EU social policy and explores the case for more comprehensive `Europeanization'. We argue that the norms that underlie the European model provide the rationale for integration, and that the usual focus on the undoubted differences b…
Introduction: Regulation in the European Union
Although the drive to create a single market in the European Union (EU) was ostensibly about market liberalization, it has led to a recasting of the role of different tiers of government in the EU. This article introduces the special issue on regulation in the EU by summarizing some of the main features of the new regulatory environment. The article then assesses factors shaping the evolution of rules and points to topics in need of further work.…
The Spatial Impact of Completion of the EC Internal Market for Financial Services
BEGG I. (1992) The spatial impact of completion of the EC internal market for financial services, Reg. Studies 26, 333–347. Because of the changes that 1992 will engender, the financial services sector is expected to be one in which the impact of the Single European Market will be particularly marked as fragmented national markets are opened. For any region or city, the outcome for its financial sector will be a trade-off between market growth an…
Is there a Convincing Rationale for the Lisbon Strategy?9
Beyond Brexit: Reshaping policies for regional development in Europe
Cohesion policy after Brexit: The Economic, Social and Institutional Challenges
Since 1988, when the current EU Cohesion Policy was introduced, it has played an influential role in setting priorities for policies aimed at dealing with the effects of European economic integration on regional and social disparities. Although, latterly, the amount of money spent in the UK through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) has declined, EU programmes have had a disproportionate effect on the design and implementation of…
Can Fiscal Policy Co‐ordination be Made to Work Effectively
Investability: The Key to Competitive Regions and Cities
This article proposes and develops a concept - investability - that can be used for analysing the competitive position of cities or regions, and formulating policy responses. It can be defined as conditions that are conducive to a higher level of investment and refers principally to the business environment in which economic agents operate. The paper discusses various influences on investment decisions and how they will impinge on different class…
The European Union and the regions
Journal Article The European Union and the regions Get access The European Union and the regions. Edited by Barry Jonesand Michael Keating. Oxford: Clarendon. 1995. 306pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 19 827999 x. Iain Begg Iain Begg 1South Bank University, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Page 396, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624410 Published: 01 April 19…
EMU and Sustainable Integration
This paper considers what will be required to make Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) sustainable following the successive crises of recent years. It starts by laying out the policy benchmark, namely the successive ‘President Reports’ produced by EU institutions. It then suggests three dimensions of sustainable integration relevant to EMU, namely the pursuit of sustainable growth, the need to take into account what we call ‘varieties of modernisat…
Contested Meanings of Transparency in Central Banking
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Kim Swales of the Fraser Allender Institute, University of Strathclyde, critically evaluates the move towards a totally discretionary regional subsidy policy heralded in the 1988 White Paper. Kim Swales argues that the evaluation of policy effectiveness on the basis of Exchequer ‘cost per job’ is both wrong in principle and damaging in practice. In the second article, Ian Begg, of the Department of Applied Economics…
Europe and National Economic Transformation: The EU After the Lisbon Decade
Economic and Social Governance in the Making: EU Governance in Flux
Although there has been relatively little change in the constitutional provisions for socio‐economic governance since the Treaty on European Union came into force in 1993, much has changed in the w
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, considers the increasing interest in the role of training as an instrument of regional policy. He stresses that the scope for training to be used in this way depends very much on what specific objectives are being pursued. In Begg's view, training will only be effective if it is part of a co-ordinated and wide-ranging regional aid package whi…
Reshaping the EU Budget: Yet Another Missed Opportunity
In the early morning of 26 March 1999, the EU’s heads of state and of government emerged from a marathon meeting to unveil the Financial Perspective for the period 2000-2006. Six weeks later, the deal was formally approved by the European Parliament by a 2-1 majority. The outcome should, therefore, be that the EU’s finances are secure for the next seven years. That a deal was reached may, at first sight, seem surprising, as the auguries were not …
Flexible integration: Towards a more effective and democratic Europe
Journal Article Flexible integration: towards a more effective and democratic Europe Get access Flexible integration: towards a more effective and democratic Europe. Monitoring European Integration 6. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. 1995. 190pp. Pb.: £10.00. ISBN 1 898128 22 7. Iain Begg Iain Begg 1South Bank University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3,…
Banking supervision in Europe and economic and monetary union
The Treaty on European Union assigns responsibility for monetary policy to the European tier of government. This has major implications for the regulation and prudential supervision of banks. However, the assignment of these responsibilities was left ambiguous by the Treaty. As banking is a critically important part of the economic infrastructure, this is a matter of significant public policy concern. This article outlines the three major identif…
Social Protection and Economic Union
As Europe moves towards economic and monetary union, the shortcomings in the de velopment of European social policy will be come more apparent. Thus, although there have been plenty of initiatives affecting work ing conditions and the Social Fund is clearly an important instrument of Commission policy, few policy developments at the European level could be said to have had much effect on redis tribution. This article assesses the scope for a more…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, and David Mayes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research examine some of the policy issues surrounding the issue of cohesion and convergence as enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. They argue that if insufficient priority is assigned to cohesion then inevitably political pressures will slow the pace of economic in…
High Technology Location and the Urban Areas of Great Britain
High technology manufacturing and services are not evenly spread throughout Great Britain. London and the rest of the South East dominate with almost half of all the high technology workforce: the rest of the South East, East Anglia and the South West have relative concentrations of high technology. In terms of urban areas, none of the evidence and statistical testing suggests any correlation between the location of high technology manufacturing …
High Technology Location and the Urban Areas of Great Britain
High technology manufacturing and services are not evenly spread throughout Great Britain. London and the rest of the South East dominate with almost half of all the high technology workforce: the rest of the South East, East Anglia and the South West have relative concentrations of high technology. In terms of urban areas, none of the evidence and statistical testing suggests any correlation between the location of high technology manufacturing …
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Kim Swales of the Fraser Allender Institute, University of Strathclyde, critically evaluates the move towards a totally discretionary regional subsidy policy heralded in the 1988 White Paper. Kim Swales argues that the evaluation of policy effectiveness on the basis of Exchequer ‘cost per job’ is both wrong in principle and damaging in practice. In the second article, Ian Begg, of the Department of Applied Economics…
Policy Review Section
In this Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, considers the increasing interest in the role of training as an instrument of regional policy. He stresses that the scope for training to be used in this way depends very much on what specific objectives are being pursued. In Begg's view, training will only be effective if it is part of a co-ordinated and wide-ranging regional aid package whi…
High Technology Location and the Urban Areas of Great Britain: Developments in the 1980s
Employment in the high technology sectors is unevenly distributed across Great Britain, with the south of the country having a higher share of such activity than the north. New Towns appear to have been more successful than other urban areas in attracting high technology, and this continued to be the case during the 1980s. There is evidence of a relative increase of high technology activity in smaller urban areas since 1981, whereas the conurbati…
The Spatial Impact of Completion of the EC Internal Market for Financial Services
BEGG I. (1992) The spatial impact of completion of the EC internal market for financial services, Reg. Studies 26, 333–347. Because of the changes that 1992 will engender, the financial services sector is expected to be one in which the impact of the Single European Market will be particularly marked as fragmented national markets are opened. For any region or city, the outcome for its financial sector will be a trade-off between market growth an…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, and David Mayes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research examine some of the policy issues surrounding the issue of cohesion and convergence as enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. They argue that if insufficient priority is assigned to cohesion then inevitably political pressures will slow the pace of economic in…
The Service Sector in Regional Development
(1993). The Service Sector in Regional Development. Regional Studies: Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 817-825
Peripherality and Northern Ireland
In writing recently about the economic problems that Northern Ireland faces (Begg and Mayes, 1994) we argued, uncontroversially, that an end to the ‘Troubles’ would significantly alter the region's prospects. Our analysis, nevertheless, focused on other factors which might be amenable to policy action. With an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland now on the cards, these other characteristics of the Northern Ireland economy must be expected to …
Social Protection and Economic Union
As Europe moves towards economic and monetary union, the shortcomings in the de velopment of European social policy will be come more apparent. Thus, although there have been plenty of initiatives affecting work ing conditions and the Social Fund is clearly an important instrument of Commission policy, few policy developments at the European level could be said to have had much effect on redis tribution. This article assesses the scope for a more…
Policy assignment in the European union
EMU will see a re‐allocation of responsibility between different tiers of government for different elements of economic policy, yet policy assignment in the EU often reflects political compromises rather than dispassionate analysis or principles. This article explores the arguments for assigning responsibility for economic policy to different tiers of government in the EU. In the light of these arguments, the case for re‐assigning policy for prud…
Flexible integration: Towards a more effective and democratic Europe
Journal Article Flexible integration: towards a more effective and democratic Europe Get access Flexible integration: towards a more effective and democratic Europe. Monitoring European Integration 6. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research. 1995. 190pp. Pb.: £10.00. ISBN 1 898128 22 7. Iain Begg Iain Begg 1South Bank University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3,…
The European Union and the regions
Journal Article The European Union and the regions Get access The European Union and the regions. Edited by Barry Jonesand Michael Keating. Oxford: Clarendon. 1995. 306pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 19 827999 x. Iain Begg Iain Begg 1South Bank University, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Page 396, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624410 Published: 01 April 19…
Introduction: Regulation in the European Union
Although the drive to create a single market in the European Union (EU) was ostensibly about market liberalization, it has led to a recasting of the role of different tiers of government in the EU. This article introduces the special issue on regulation in the EU by summarizing some of the main features of the new regulatory environment. The article then assesses factors shaping the evolution of rules and points to topics in need of further work.…
Banking supervision in Europe and economic and monetary union
The Treaty on European Union assigns responsibility for monetary policy to the European tier of government. This has major implications for the regulation and prudential supervision of banks. However, the assignment of these responsibilities was left ambiguous by the Treaty. As banking is a critically important part of the economic infrastructure, this is a matter of significant public policy concern. This article outlines the three major identif…
Cities and Competitiveness
Improved competitiveness, as we all know, is the path to economic nirvana. Plainly, it is a sought after property of any economy: the term trips frequently off the lips of politicians and commentators on economic and business matters. As cities increasingly engage in competition with one another at different levels, the determinants of competitive advantage are coming under intense scrutiny. Many
Reshaping the EU Budget: Yet Another Missed Opportunity
In the early morning of 26 March 1999, the EU’s heads of state and of government emerged from a marathon meeting to unveil the Financial Perspective for the period 2000-2006. Six weeks later, the deal was formally approved by the European Parliament by a 2-1 majority. The outcome should, therefore, be that the EU’s finances are secure for the next seven years. That a deal was reached may, at first sight, seem surprising, as the auguries were not …
Regional Adjustment Mechanisms under EMU
The implications of the European monetary union for regional development: Rejoinder to the comments by Ron Boschma
Urban Competitiveness: Policies for Dynamic Cities
Introduction: EU social (exclusion) policy revisited
Since the mid-1990s, several steps have been taken towards an integration of social policy in the EU. Yet there is reluctance in many quarters to go further. This article introduces the special issue on integration of EU social policy and explores the case for more comprehensive `Europeanization'. We argue that the norms that underlie the European model provide the rationale for integration, and that the usual focus on the undoubted differences b…
Investability: The Key to Competitive Regions and Cities
This article proposes and develops a concept - investability - that can be used for analysing the competitive position of cities or regions, and formulating policy responses. It can be defined as conditions that are conducive to a higher level of investment and refers principally to the business environment in which economic agents operate. The paper discusses various influences on investment decisions and how they will impinge on different class…
EMU and Cohesion: Introduction
Can Fiscal Policy Co‐ordination be Made to Work Effectively
Contested Meanings of Transparency in Central Banking
Is there a Convincing Rationale for the Lisbon Strategy?9
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