This paper recommends a system of rewards for public officials which is linearly related to the performance of the official. The main advantage of such a system of compensation is that it serves as a regular ‘self checking’ of the performance of an official and it reduces the need for a...

This paper discusses different forms of transfer from a group of rich individuals to a group of poor individuals. This transfer is based on the philanthropic motive of the donor, who is not indifferent to the use of his contribution. In particular, the poor individual's vector of consumption is...

We estimate a political popularity function for Israel, taking into account the effects of institutional and political changes on the structure of the function, and then use this function, in conjunction with a simple macroeconomic model of the Israeli economy, to calculate dynamic macroeconomic...