Winthrop Professor Alex Coram

BA Tas., PhD Syd.
Phone: +61 8 6488 2097
Fax: +61 8 6488 1060
abtcoram@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Teaching

Alex Coram teaches in the fields of choice theory and game theory and in international political economy.

POLS2215 Game Theory and Politics
POLS3315 Game Theory and Politics
POLS2220 International Political Economy
POLS3320 International Political Economy

Research

Alex Coram has research interests in the fields of social choice theory, game theory, optimization theory and formal modeling and has recently worked on problems of cooperation and conflict over resources.

Publications

State, Anarchy and Collective Decisions. Some Applications of Game Theory to Political Economy, Great Britain: Palgrave 2001

'Sharing the costs of maintaining environmental resources: a comparison of different programmes.' Environmental Modeling and Software. 16. 2001.

'Sharing taxes in a federal government:: a study in the theory of the core.' European Journal of Political Research. 39. 2001. 417-429

'Equilibria in games with discontinuous payoffs.' Economics Letters. 72. 2001. 175-80.

'The rise and fall of support for political parties: a dynamic analysis.' Electoral Studies. 22. 2003 .603-16.

'International cooperation over environmental costs.' Social Science Quarterly. 2003. vol. 84. no.1. 174-90.

'An asymmetric dynamic struggle between pirates and producers'. Economics Working Papers. University of Massachusetts. 2006

'The optimal allocation of water along a system of rivers: a continuous model with sequential bidding.' Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 2006. Vol.50. Issue 3. 313-326.

'Relative advantage queue jumping and welfare maximizing wealth distribution' Economics Working Papers. University of Massachusetts. 2006.

'A marketing competition with a finite termination time: some differential games' Global Journal of Business Research. 2007. Vol.1. No. 1. 157-67.

'Social choice problems with continuous ordering functions. ‘Economics Working Papers. University of Massachusetts. 2008.’

‘The political-economy of conflicts over wealth: why don't the rabble expropriate the rich?’ Public Choice.. 2008. vol 136. 315-330

‘The Red Queen and the dynamics of marketing effort in a competition between political parties’. Forthcoming British Journal of Political Science. 2009

The optimal extraction of water along an arbitrarily configured river system. (with L. Noakes) Forthcoming Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 2009.

'Relative satisfaction and welfare maximizing wealth distribution, (with L. Noakes) Berkely Journal of Theoretical Economics. 2009-10-22

‘Super-agents and control of dynamic systems with n interacting units,’ (with L. Noakes). Forthcoming International Theory. 2009.

Some notes and a solution to the problem of integrated water management, Forthcoming ‘Regulation and Infrastructure.’ Eds Jarvis, Ramesh, Araral, Eduardo Jr; Wu Xun, 2009

Postgraduate Supervision

Alex is interested in supervising research in the fields of theoretical political economy, formal theory, social choice and game theory.