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Two opposed parties seek to influence an uninformed decision maker. They invest in acquiringinformation and select what to disclose. The decision maker then adjudicates. We compare thisbenchmark with a procedure allowing adversarial cross-examination. A cross-examiner tests theopponent in order...
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Ireland failed to keep up -- Need the Irish economic experiment fail? -- Nice rents if you can get them -- Entrepreneurship or … rent-seeking? -- What can we do about the civil service? -- 'Systemic corporate failure of public administration …' : reflections on the Travers report -- 'Marking the card' of an overseas applicant for the post of Garda Commissioner -- 'Ireland …
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respond and which exposed Ireland to a worse crisis than might otherwise have occurred. Three institutional clusters are … public administration system; and the management of the domestic cost base. In all three, urgent priorities for reform are …
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When a share is lent, the lending institution often neglects to match the loan to a particular underlying share. The institution will then solicit the owner of the lent share for votes on corporate proposals, despite the owner's loss of voting rights. This “over-voting” introduces a...
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Amid continuing urban growth and the accelerating effects of climate change, East Asian cities suffer from more extreme temperatures than surrounding rural areas - being up to 2 degrees Celsius hotter on average. This urban heat island (UHI) effect is caused by cities' relative lack of...
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In 2008, Daqi was one of the largest Internet portals for user-generated content and leading word-of-mouth marketing provider in China. Grace Zhou, Daqi's CEO, was contemplating the risks and benefits of expanding Daqi's services into three new content areas-news, music, and popular bloggers....
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