Ben Lockwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Lockwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Lockwood |
| SIGNATURE | BEN LOCKWOOD |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2402-1514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK
Do ‘green’ environmental concerns – such as about biodiversity, climate change, pollution – deter citizens from having children? This paper reports the first longitudinal evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. It follows through time a random sample of thousands of initially childless men and women in the UK. The paper shows that those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be substantially less …
Place(making) for conservation activism: Materiality, Non‐human Agency, Ethics, and Interaction in Indianapolis, In
In 2016 and 2017, local environmentalists in downtown Indianapolis organised for the conservation of an urban greenspace known as Crown Hill Woods. The woods was sold by Crown Hill Cemetery and its planned removal set off a struggle over the meaning of the woods that revealed elements of placemaking and place attachments. This article uses a case study of a conservation conflict to analyse the language used by conservation activists attempting to…
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries
There is increasing evidence that right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) and their supporters are hostile to climate and low-carbon energy policies. In this article, we provide a quantitative analysis of the effects of RWPP representation in the legislature and executive on climate and renewable energy policy for a number of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development over the period 2007–2018. After controlling for other…
VAT Notches, Voluntary Registration, and Bunching: Theory and U.K. Evidence
Using administrative tax records for U.K. businesses, we document both bunching in annual turnover below the VAT registration threshold and persistent voluntary registration by almost half of the firms below the threshold. We develop a conceptual framework that can simultaneously explain these two apparently conflicting facts. The framework also predicts that higher intermediate input shares, lower product-market competition, and a lower share of…
Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion
This paper studies the effect of voter loss aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition. Loss-aversion over platforms leads to both platform rigidity and reduced platform polarisation, whereas loss-aversion over valence results in increased polarisation and the possibility of asymmetric equilibria with a self-fulfilling (dis)-advantage for the incumbent. The results are robust to a s…
More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK
Making Budgets Better: A Review of Better Budgets
Confirmation Bias and Electoral Accountability
This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. When voters have this bias and when only the politician’s actions are observable before the election, it decreases pandering by the incumbent, and can raise voter welfare as a consequence. This result is driven by the fact that the noise aspect of confirmation bias, which decreases pandering, dominates …
Intergovernmental grants as signals and the alignment effect: Theory and evidence
The value added tax: Its causes and consequences
Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU Countries
Tax competition theory predicts that the introduction of the EU Single Market in 1993 should have caused excise tax competition and thus increased strategic interaction in the setting of excise taxes among EU countries. We test this prediction using a panel data set of 12 EU countries over the period 1987-2004. We find that for excise duties on still and sparkling wine, beer and ethyl alcohol, strategic interaction significantly increased after 1…
Do countries compete over corporate tax rates?
Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning vs. Re-Election Concerns
Designing Monetary Policy when Unemployment Persists
This paper investigates how unemployment persistence affects the optimal delegation of monetary policy to an independent central banker (CB). Two opposing forces are shown to be at work: with more persistence, the government’s incentive to stabilize the economy is greater; but (if the CB is forward‐looking) its incentive to create inflation surprises is also greater. We show that, owing to the second effect, the government may wish not to delegat…
Fiscal Policy, Public Debt Stabilisation and Politics: Theory and UK Evidence
Journal Article Fiscal Policy, Public Debt Stabilisation and Politics: Theory and UK Evidence Get access Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Apostolis Philippopoulos, Apostolis Philippopoulos University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andy Snell Andy Snell University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this aut…
Insider Power, Unemployment Dynamics and Multiple Inflation Equilibria
This paper incorporates employment dynamics due to insider power into the Barro-Gordon theory of inflation. Unlike in the static Barro-Gordon case, and even though our infinitehorizon model is linear-quadratic, there can be two Markov-perfect equilibria, so that the same unemployment may correspond to either low or high inflation. Both equilibrium inflation rates (measured per unit of the gap between the insiders' and government's employment targ…
Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence
Journal Article Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence Get access George S. Alogoskoufis, George S. Alogoskoufis Birkbeck College, Athens School of Economics and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College, University of Exeter and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Apostolis …
Dynamic Wage-Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs
Journal Article Dynamic Wage-Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs Get access Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 398, 1 December 1989, Pages 1143–1158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234093 Published: 0…
Transferable Skills, Job Matching, and the Inefficiency of the `Natural' Rate of Unemployment
Journal Article Transferable Skills, Job Matching, and the Inefficiency of the `Natural' Rate of Unemployment Get access Ben Lockwood Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 961–974, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233167 Published: 01 December 1986
The value added tax: Its causes and consequences
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries
There is increasing evidence that right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) and their supporters are hostile to climate and low-carbon energy policies. In this article, we provide a quantitative analysis of the effects of RWPP representation in the legislature and executive on climate and renewable energy policy for a number of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development over the period 2007–2018. After controlling for other…
Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion
This paper studies the effect of voter loss aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition. Loss-aversion over platforms leads to both platform rigidity and reduced platform polarisation, whereas loss-aversion over valence results in increased polarisation and the possibility of asymmetric equilibria with a self-fulfilling (dis)-advantage for the incumbent. The results are robust to a s…
Confirmation Bias and Electoral Accountability
This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. When voters have this bias and when only the politician’s actions are observable before the election, it decreases pandering by the incumbent, and can raise voter welfare as a consequence. This result is driven by the fact that the noise aspect of confirmation bias, which decreases pandering, dominates …
Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK
Do ‘green’ environmental concerns – such as about biodiversity, climate change, pollution – deter citizens from having children? This paper reports the first longitudinal evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. It follows through time a random sample of thousands of initially childless men and women in the UK. The paper shows that those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be substantially less …
Fiscal Policy, Public Debt Stabilisation and Politics: Theory and UK Evidence
Journal Article Fiscal Policy, Public Debt Stabilisation and Politics: Theory and UK Evidence Get access Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Apostolis Philippopoulos, Apostolis Philippopoulos University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andy Snell Andy Snell University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this aut…
Transferable Skills, Job Matching, and the Inefficiency of the `Natural' Rate of Unemployment
Journal Article Transferable Skills, Job Matching, and the Inefficiency of the `Natural' Rate of Unemployment Get access Ben Lockwood Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 961–974, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233167 Published: 01 December 1986
Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU Countries
Tax competition theory predicts that the introduction of the EU Single Market in 1993 should have caused excise tax competition and thus increased strategic interaction in the setting of excise taxes among EU countries. We test this prediction using a panel data set of 12 EU countries over the period 1987-2004. We find that for excise duties on still and sparkling wine, beer and ethyl alcohol, strategic interaction significantly increased after 1…
Designing Monetary Policy when Unemployment Persists
This paper investigates how unemployment persistence affects the optimal delegation of monetary policy to an independent central banker (CB). Two opposing forces are shown to be at work: with more persistence, the government’s incentive to stabilize the economy is greater; but (if the CB is forward‐looking) its incentive to create inflation surprises is also greater. We show that, owing to the second effect, the government may wish not to delegat…
Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence
Journal Article Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence Get access George S. Alogoskoufis, George S. Alogoskoufis Birkbeck College, Athens School of Economics and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College, University of Exeter and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Apostolis …
Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning vs. Re-Election Concerns
Insider Power, Unemployment Dynamics and Multiple Inflation Equilibria
This paper incorporates employment dynamics due to insider power into the Barro-Gordon theory of inflation. Unlike in the static Barro-Gordon case, and even though our infinitehorizon model is linear-quadratic, there can be two Markov-perfect equilibria, so that the same unemployment may correspond to either low or high inflation. Both equilibrium inflation rates (measured per unit of the gap between the insiders' and government's employment targ…
Transferable Skills, Job Matching, and the Inefficiency of the `Natural' Rate of Unemployment
Journal Article Transferable Skills, Job Matching, and the Inefficiency of the `Natural' Rate of Unemployment Get access Ben Lockwood Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 961–974, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233167 Published: 01 December 1986
Dynamic Wage-Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs
Journal Article Dynamic Wage-Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs Get access Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 398, 1 December 1989, Pages 1143–1158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234093 Published: 0…
Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence
Journal Article Wage Inflation, Electoral Uncertainty and the Exchange Rate Regime: Theory and UK Evidence Get access George S. Alogoskoufis, George S. Alogoskoufis Birkbeck College, Athens School of Economics and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College, University of Exeter and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Apostolis …
Insider Power, Unemployment Dynamics and Multiple Inflation Equilibria
This paper incorporates employment dynamics due to insider power into the Barro-Gordon theory of inflation. Unlike in the static Barro-Gordon case, and even though our infinitehorizon model is linear-quadratic, there can be two Markov-perfect equilibria, so that the same unemployment may correspond to either low or high inflation. Both equilibrium inflation rates (measured per unit of the gap between the insiders' and government's employment targ…
Fiscal Policy, Public Debt Stabilisation and Politics: Theory and UK Evidence
Journal Article Fiscal Policy, Public Debt Stabilisation and Politics: Theory and UK Evidence Get access Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Apostolis Philippopoulos, Apostolis Philippopoulos University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andy Snell Andy Snell University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this aut…
Designing Monetary Policy when Unemployment Persists
This paper investigates how unemployment persistence affects the optimal delegation of monetary policy to an independent central banker (CB). Two opposing forces are shown to be at work: with more persistence, the government’s incentive to stabilize the economy is greater; but (if the CB is forward‐looking) its incentive to create inflation surprises is also greater. We show that, owing to the second effect, the government may wish not to delegat…
Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning vs. Re-Election Concerns
Do countries compete over corporate tax rates?
The value added tax: Its causes and consequences
Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU Countries
Tax competition theory predicts that the introduction of the EU Single Market in 1993 should have caused excise tax competition and thus increased strategic interaction in the setting of excise taxes among EU countries. We test this prediction using a panel data set of 12 EU countries over the period 1987-2004. We find that for excise duties on still and sparkling wine, beer and ethyl alcohol, strategic interaction significantly increased after 1…
Intergovernmental grants as signals and the alignment effect: Theory and evidence
Making Budgets Better: A Review of Better Budgets
Confirmation Bias and Electoral Accountability
This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. When voters have this bias and when only the politician’s actions are observable before the election, it decreases pandering by the incumbent, and can raise voter welfare as a consequence. This result is driven by the fact that the noise aspect of confirmation bias, which decreases pandering, dominates …
More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK
Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion
This paper studies the effect of voter loss aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition. Loss-aversion over platforms leads to both platform rigidity and reduced platform polarisation, whereas loss-aversion over valence results in increased polarisation and the possibility of asymmetric equilibria with a self-fulfilling (dis)-advantage for the incumbent. The results are robust to a s…
VAT Notches, Voluntary Registration, and Bunching: Theory and U.K. Evidence
Using administrative tax records for U.K. businesses, we document both bunching in annual turnover below the VAT registration threshold and persistent voluntary registration by almost half of the firms below the threshold. We develop a conceptual framework that can simultaneously explain these two apparently conflicting facts. The framework also predicts that higher intermediate input shares, lower product-market competition, and a lower share of…
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries
There is increasing evidence that right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) and their supporters are hostile to climate and low-carbon energy policies. In this article, we provide a quantitative analysis of the effects of RWPP representation in the legislature and executive on climate and renewable energy policy for a number of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development over the period 2007–2018. After controlling for other…
Place(making) for conservation activism: Materiality, Non‐human Agency, Ethics, and Interaction in Indianapolis, In
In 2016 and 2017, local environmentalists in downtown Indianapolis organised for the conservation of an urban greenspace known as Crown Hill Woods. The woods was sold by Crown Hill Cemetery and its planned removal set off a struggle over the meaning of the woods that revealed elements of placemaking and place attachments. This article uses a case study of a conservation conflict to analyse the language used by conservation activists attempting to…
Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK
Do ‘green’ environmental concerns – such as about biodiversity, climate change, pollution – deter citizens from having children? This paper reports the first longitudinal evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. It follows through time a random sample of thousands of initially childless men and women in the UK. The paper shows that those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be substantially less …
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