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The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the … election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts … enhance the accountability of politicians and to increase social welfare. …
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 10 February 1989.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3998497. In the face of strong opposition from left-wing union...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 16 November 1982.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. In response to the problem of growing unemployment, the Fraser Government calls a special premiers' conference to seek a 12 month wage freeze in both the...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 6 July 1986.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. The Sunday cartoon panel: 1. The Australian dollar falls to all-time lows, much to the discomfort of Treasurer Paul Keating. 2. In an uncomfortable beginning to...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 13 August 1981.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Talks between the Fraser government and the ACTU on wage moderation seem headed towards the rocks when concessions sought by the ACTU on tax, health charges...
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Energy forecasts are widely used by the U.S. government, politicians, think tanks,and utility companies. While short …
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-selection of Politicians and Corruption," I, together with my coauthor Evsen Turkay, build a citizen-candidate model, in which … politicians' salaries, entrepreneurial profits and campaigning costs, on the equilibrium outcome. …
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We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning...
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"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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