Principal Agent Theory (PAT) seeks to identify the incentives and sanctions that a consumer should apply when entering into a contract with a provider in order to maximise their own utility. However, identifying suitable contracts — maximising utility while minimising regret — is difficult, particularly when little information is available about provider competencies. In this paper we show that...

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that it is the productivity and not the stead state level of investment that contributes to achieving target growth rates; and that consumption spending is more b...

The VA Secretary occupies probably the most thankless job in Washington. On the one hand the Secretary is expected to seamlessly provide the plethora of benefits and services a grateful nation offers veterans who have sacrificed body and mind in military service, and to those who need transition services. On the other, the Secretary must strictly obey all laws and follow all Administration poli...

EMPLOYERS ACROSS the UK are expected to review the demands they place on staff following a landmark employment tribunal victory last week by nurses Christine Clunie and Alison Hale.

This paper presents a study carried out on a Weighted Fair Queuing implementation for Unix routers the WFQ implementation of the ALTQ project. It shows the WFQ/ALTQ weaknesses and explains why we cannot expect an interesting behavior from a system using such a

Fraud victims are often refused a refund by their bank on the grounds that they failed to comply with their bank’s terms and conditions about PIN safety. We, therefore, conducted a survey of how many PINs people have, and how they manage them. We found that while only a third of PINs are ever changed, almost half of bank customers write at least one PIN down. We also found bank conditions that ...