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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police...

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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe

Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

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L’expert-comptable judiciaire : un pair de la cour ?

CHARRIER, Emmanuel - EconWPA - 2005

il doit apporter un éclairage strictement limité à sa technique afin que la décision de justice soit prise en toute … Justice. …

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....

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A normative framework of justice in climate change

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this … article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the consequent criteria of equity for the main domains of global … factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the …

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Low Information Games - Experimental Evidence on Learning in Ultimatum Bargaining

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 1999

This paper reports experimental evidence on behaviour in an Ultimatum Game where responders have low structural information and feedback so that they have to learn the nature of the game during repeated play. The results lend support to the view that certain learning conditions are less...

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Universally Stable Adjustment Processes - A Unifying Approach

Herings, P.J.J. - EconWPA - 2001

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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An interview with Thomas C. Schelling: Interpretation of game theory and the checkerboard model

Aydinonat, N. Emrah - EconWPA - 2005

This note is mainly based on a short interview with Thomas C. Schelling (TCS), who shared the Nobel Prize with Robert J. Aumann in 2005. The interview took place on 06.03.2001 at University of Maryland, College Park, USA. It consists of two parts. The first part is about his interpretation of...

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Endogenous Games and Mechanisms: Side Payments Among Players

Jackson, Matthew O.; Wilkie, Simon - EconWPA - 2002

We characterize the outcomes of games when players may make binding offers of strategy contingent side payments before the game is played. This does not always lead to efficient outcomes, despite complete information and costless contracting. The characterizations are illustrated in a series of...

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