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Decreasing Cost And Profit Maximization In Cournot Duopoly Models, Kai Cheong Lei
Decreasing Cost And Profit Maximization In Cournot Duopoly Models, Kai Cheong Lei
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
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The Political Development Of China, Taiwan And Hong Kong Since The Late 1970s : Problems And Prospects, Yiu Chung Wong
The Political Development Of China, Taiwan And Hong Kong Since The Late 1970s : Problems And Prospects, Yiu Chung Wong
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
This paper attempts to sketch in outline the key political development in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the last ten years or so, and to probe into the inner dynamics behind these changes and, finally, to discuss their future direction.
Corruption By Design : Bribery In Chinese Enterprise Licensing, Melanie Manion
Corruption By Design : Bribery In Chinese Enterprise Licensing, Melanie Manion
CAPS Working Paper Series
This article presents a game theoretic institutional analysis of bureaucratic corruption: bribery in Chinese enterprise licensing. Formal structures and informal expectations are identified as features of "institutional design" that shape choices by strategic individuals to produce corrupt outcomes. Bribery (as an equilibrium) is deductively derived as a solution in a signaling game; the game form is empirically derived from features of institutional design. Exercises in comparative statics explore the robustness of bribery as an equilibrium when game parameter values are altered to reflect changes in institutional design. The exercises indicate that reducing corruption, in the sense of reducing bribe sizes, …
Economic Reforms And Inequality In China, Joseph C. H. Chai, B. Karin Chai
Economic Reforms And Inequality In China, Joseph C. H. Chai, B. Karin Chai
CAPS Working Paper Series
This paper investigates the theoretical relationship between economic reforms and inequalities in socialist countries and tests it empirically in the case of China. The paper argues that the issue of whether market oriented reforms are likely to increase or decrease inequality in the former socialist economies is an empirical question which cannot be settled by a priori reasoning. On the one hand, economic inequality may rise with the reintroduction of property income and incentive payments and the reduction of barriers to opportunity for labor and capital to fully realize their highest earning potentials, On the other hand, inequality may decline …
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Policy : An Expected Utility Analysis, David Newman
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Policy : An Expected Utility Analysis, David Newman
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
This paper models the pressures being brought to bear on the North Koreans, the prospects for successfully changing North Korean policy, and explores other strategies, perhaps more successful seeks to continue to establish the role expected utility modeling can play in foreign policy analysis.
Economics As A Conceptual Resource For The Study Of Public Management, David, L. Weimer, Aidan, R. Vining
Economics As A Conceptual Resource For The Study Of Public Management, David, L. Weimer, Aidan, R. Vining
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
Four related bodies of knowledge inform the study and practice of public management. Broadest in scope is knowledge about the political processes that place demands, provide opportunities, and impose constraints on public managers. Next broadest in scope is policy analysis, which provides the conceptual foundations and craft skills for determining what government should do and how it should be done. Organizational design, a subset of policy analysis, gives insight into how the public sector can be organized to facilitate the effective delivery of goods and services. Narrowest in scope, but most directly relevant to the practice of management, is knowledge …