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maxmin persuasion and similar games used to model political spending, all-pay auctions, and competitive persuasion. In both a standard binary-state setting and a new continuous-state setting, Sender ... captures situations where all Receiver types process information in the same way, but may have different preferences over outcomes. In addition to the political spending example described above, a model of
. THE PRESENT: THE MAINE TURNPIKE AUTHORITY A. Legislatively B. A Practical and Political Overview C. Case Studies 1. Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water Dist. v. Maine Turnpike Authority (1950 ... interstates that affect daily life in the United States, lays out the political landscape surrounding urban planning, and defines and discusses the history of turnpikes6 and public authorities. BACKGROUND A
, the decrease in salinity and increase in sediment will modify the existing habitat too much for those species to thrive.98 Fishers have also voiced concerns about the political willingness of state and ... and local stakeholders.117 As described by Jacob Lipsman in 2019, “[t]rust issues between coastal stakeholders and social institutions [in Louisiana] have hindered the political process around coastal
Models of two contestants exerting effort to win a prize are very common and widely used in political economy. The contest success function plays as fundamental a role in the theory of contests as ... preferences, but it does include the commodity spaces which are important to economists. This paper is about political economy rather than competitive equilibrium, but the analysis and results are in the spirit
In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...
the private sector, and without certainty as to the future of political priorities, private investment at required levels is unlikely without additional incentives. The Biden administration attempted to ... unprotected with such significant price and political fluctuations. There are, however, several risks and inefficiencies that emerge when hedging with instruments that do not directly correlate with the
distort news to pursue their private interests and affect political outcomes.1 To counter the threat posed by the spread of disinformation, most countries enforce laws that punish the practice of ... shall be guilty of an illegal practice. More recently, several governments have passed “fake news laws” to address the growing concern about distortions of the political process caused by disinformation
political and financial capital defending their claims and challenging the claims of others.1 The resources within the water column as well as the deep-sea resources below the surface cannot be efficiently ... geometric approach to solving maritime disputes often turns on what should be irrelevant factors. First, Kenya cited Somalia’s failure to use military and political capital to contest Kenya’s action as
Francesco Squintani This is a collection of articles in political economy, a very broad and interdisciplinary field that bridges Economics and Political Science. It has a long history building on ... back to the work of eighteenth-century social philosophers such as Condorcet. While the unifying questions lie on the interrelation between the workings of political institutions and the effect of
ceremonial head of the Royal Navy (a position that has been vacant since the 2021 death of Prince Philip), while the First Lord of the Admiralty was for centuries the political head of the Royal Navy (the
. 17, 1941). In addition to the practical difficulty of obtaining a waiver, all waivers also face “a tidal wave of political ramifications” because the “[t]he [U.S.] shipping industry views these ... cost “American mariners and their American employers millions.”155 These political hurdles are difficult to overcome or change because the “maritime lobby generously donates to politicians on both sides
developing and implementing a Coastal Nonpoint Program in Oregon. First, the cooperation with and political influence of Oregon’s timber industry could be pivotal in the 2023] development of Oregon’s Coastal ... with stakeholder negotiation and the federal funding Oregon is currently relinquishing. A. Cooperation with Oregon’s Timber Industry Arguably, Oregon’s timber industry has the greatest political
literature on NDB. Recent empirical studies document the role of NDB in mitigating political risks (Hainz and Kleimeier 2012) , addressing externality (Schclarek and Xu 2022) , providing long-term and high ... widely considered in the public–private partnership (PPP) contracts. In addition, because of certain legal and political restrictions, the government cannot issue debts to firms and hence needs to
international levels, the task falls ultimately to political leaders to organize and implement appropriate solutions. But to be effective, those solutions must be based on the best available scientific and ... -compliance with existing rules, largely occasioned by the inability of political leaders and administrators (at all levels) to enact rules truly responsive to the best current scientific and economic
Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance Evaluation conference and the Contests and Political Competition conference at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance for helpful suggestions ... losers’ costs of effort are at least partially sunk. All-pay auctions are used in many areas of research including rent-seeking, political contests, lobbying, patent races, litigation, job tournaments
closer to the center of global markets. The powerful political institutions of nation states combined with growing transnational businesses are driving a combination of boosts in national economies ... resources located near the remote, often coastal communities, have moved closer to the center of global markets.3 The powerful political institutions of nation states, combined with growing transnational
European Union, due to political pressure from other European Union countries whom import many tons of American Lobsters for consumption, halted this process and the American Lobster was spared from being ... list of Union concern. However, the European Union should have made this determination through the framework of the Act and not through political pressure. Moreover, this comment analyzes the risk
philosophy that it is time to do away with zoos and aquariums. In 2019, Canada passed legislation banning captivity of dolphins and whales.282 Chile passed similar legislation in 2005, and countries like
such as “green electricity,” “hybrid,” “Energy-Star,” and “organic” have come into common use. Likewise, concerns about global warming, ocean pollution, and Arctic melting have resulted in political ... , bringing the reader through the regulatory framework of wetland law and into the world of definitions and mitigation techniques. Along the way, Gardner entertains us with various cases and political stories
exercise the acquisition of lands in all the States . . . The right is the offspring of political necessity; and it is inseparable from sovereignty unless denied to it by its fundamental law. Id. 15. See 15 ... : The Framers split the atom of sovereignty. It was the genius of their idea that our citizens would have two political capacities, one State and one Federal, each protected from incursion by the other