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Are anticompetitive behaviours rampant in global retail energy markets? A study of price elasticity, asymmetric price adjustment and rent-seeking. [PDF]
Energy Res Soc Sci, 2020 Ogbuabor JE, Orji A, Anthony-Orji OI.
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Flexible Memory: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Flexible memory technology is crucial for flexible electronics integration. This review covers its historical evolution, evaluates rigid systems, proposes a flexible memory framework based on multiple mechanisms, stresses material design's role, presents a coupling model for performance optimization, and points out future directions.
Ruizhi Yuan +5 more
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The Production Function for Votes [PDF]
The Vote Production Function (VPF) has a party's vote depending on (a) its potential vote and (b) the party organization which actualizes it - 'political capital'.
Andrew Pickering, John Maloney
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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On the effects of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking [PDF]
This paper deals with the influence of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking activities of local interest groups. It employs a model where households differ with respect to their endowment with the immobile factor land.
Lorz, Jens Oliver
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz +7 more
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Foreign aid and rent-seeking [PDF]
To address the relationship between concessional assistance, corruption, and other types of rent-seeking activities, the author provides a simple game-theoretic rent-seeking model.
Svensson, Jakob
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From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand [PDF]
, 2000 I present a study of ownership of firms under government rent seeking. Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment.
Che, Jiahua
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
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FORMS OF GOVERNANCE AND THE SIZE OF RENT-SEEKING [PDF]
In this paper we present a model of an organization where agents can choose between productive and rent-seeking activities. We consider two governance institutions, single ownership and corporate governance or parliament rule. Applications include models
Luis C. Corchon
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