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Liessem, Verena - 2003

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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Mass Media and Aspiration Manipulation: An Experiment Altering Preferences Over Goals

Wu, Kevin - 2011

Mass media consumption has increasingly been found to adversely impact upon psychological states but research has largely neglected the potential influence of media onaspirations. An experiment demonstrates aspirational incomes to be dramatically altered by a textual narrative despite it not...

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Manipulative auction design

Philippe Jehiel - Department of Economics, Paris School of Economics and … - 2011

[This item is a preserved copy. To view the original, visit http://econtheory.org/] This paper considers an auction design framework in which bidders get partial feedback about the distribution of bids submitted in earlier auctions: either bidders are asymmetric but past bids are disclosed in an...

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BLACK PR, GOALS AND MEANS

Kobalava, Marine - 2021

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"He won't wear it , Mr Kelty" : ACTU turn down government's tax/wage deal [picture] /

Pryor, Geoff - 1984

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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[Chickens with heads of government and shadow ministers; Malcolm Fraser, Doug Anthony, John Howard, Bob Hawke, Bill Hayden] [picture] /

Pryor, Geoff - 1982

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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"Hear the rumour - Keating has resigned" [Paul Keating] [picture] /

Pryor, Geoff - 1986

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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The grand old squire of Nareen, he had a band of men. He marched them up to the top of the hill, and he marched them down again [Malcolm Fraser, Phillip Lynch, John Howard, Ian Sin...

Pryor, Geoff - 1981

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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Evaluation of errors in national energy forecasts

Sakva, Denys - 2005

Energy forecasts are widely used by the U.S. government, politicians, think tanks,and utility companies. While short …

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Essays on corruption

Tarhan, Simge - 2009

-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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