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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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The Impact of Kinship on the Economic Dynamics of Transnational Networks: reflections on some South Asian developments

Ballard, Roger - 2001

Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.

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Leaving the L-Space; Kundenintegration als Erklärungsansatz multinationaler Unternehmen im Dienstleistungssektor - Eine Weiterentwicklung des OLI-Modells

Radmacher-Nottelmann, Nils A. - 2010

Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...

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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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"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 Sinclair, Ian Viner, Reginald Withers and Cliff Dolan (ACTU President) bringing up the rear. [picture] /

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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A Dyad Model of Calling Behaviour with Tie Strength Dynamics

Shi, Mengze; Yang, Botao; Chiang, Jeongwen - University of Toronto; University of Southern California; … - 2009

This paper investigates the dynamic relation between callers' socialties and their wireless phone service consumption. We construct a largepair-level panel dataset with information on the number of each pair'scommon contacts, calling activities, prices, and each caller'scharacteristics over a...

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