This commentary reflects upon the article along three broad lines. It reflects on the theoretical choices and omissions, particularly highlighting why it is important to adapt the multiple streams framework (MSF) when applying it in a socio-political context like Vietnam’s. The commentary also reflects upon the analytical threads tackled by Ha et al; for instance, it highlights the opportunitie...

Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...

Evolutionary governance theory (EGT) provides a basis for holistically analyzing the shifting contexts and dynamics of policymaking in settings with functional differentiation complex subsystems. Policy assemblages, as mixes policy tools goals, are an appropriate unit analysis EGT because they embody theory’s emphasis on co-evolving elements within systems. In rational practice, policymakers de...

† I thank Randall Wright and an anonymous referee for very useful comments and suggestions. All errors are mine. Abstract There are two general ways in which the role of fiat money has been introduced in the standard monetary search-theoretical model. The first is to bring in the model a fiat object with different intrinsic properties. The second is to introduce a centralized institution that f...

The objective of this paper is to present a special application field of optimal control and differential game theories which is of interest to management scientists. After introducing the Vidale-Wolfe’s and NerloveArrow’s dynamic models for advertising processes, I will focus on a few exemplary problems. At a first investigation level, we find some optimal control problems, then the more inter...

Appraisal theories (Roseman and Smith, 2001) are psychological theories exploring how humans evaluate situations along a number of appraisal dimensions, many of which compare the situation to the current goals. We report on the application of appraisal theories to focus the learning of policies in complex domains via Soar 9’s built-in reinforcement learning mechanism. In addition, we describe h...

Motivated by empirical evidence suggesting a close link between weak institutional quality and informality, this paper proposes a game-theoretical model that explores how perceived governance effectiveness in public service provision determines a firm’s decision to be formal or informal under incomplete information with regard to other firms’ perceptions. By deploying a “global games” approach,...