OBJECTIVE To describe associations between demographic and individual and area-level socio-economic variables and restricted household food access due to lack of money, inability to lift groceries and lack of access to a car to do food shopping. DESIGN Multilevel study of three measures of restricted food access, i.e. running out of money to buy food, inability to lift groceries and lack of a...

Purpose – Mobile technologies offer the opportunity to embed learning in a natural environment. The objective of the study is to examine how the usage of mobile phones for m-learning differs between heavy and light mobile phone users. Heavy mobile phone users are hypothesized to have access to/subscribe to one type of mobile content than light mobile phone users, to have less frequent access to...

t is a challenging time to be taking up the reins of Sexually Transmitted Infections. After a prolonged period of decline, there are epidemics of bacterial STIs in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, including outbreaks of syphilis. HIV continues to escalate; the prevalence of HIV is escalating due to persistent or rising incidence combined with increased survival. Globally we face major epi...

The monetary policy literature assumes increasingly that policies are formulated according to the timeless perspective (Woodford, 1999a). However, treating the auxiliary state variables that characterize the timeless perspective equilibrium appropriately when evaluating policy performance, this paper shows that discretionary policymaking can be superior to timeless perspective policymaking and ...

In recent years a growing consensus has emerged for price stability as the overriding, long-run goal of monetary policy. However, despite this consensus, the following question still remains: how should monetary policy be conducted to achieve the price stability goal? To shed light on this question, this paper examines the experience with different monetary policy regimes currently in use in a ...

This paper provides recursive methods for analyzing the credible equilibria of an incomplete information monetary policy game. The policy game is one in which a discretionary government has a short run temptation to engage in a surprise monetary expansion. It also has the opportunity to mimic a government that is committed to the optimal ex ante monetary policy actions. We derive an algorithm f...