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Professor Alex Coram


BA Tas., PhD Syd.
Phone: +61 8 6488 2097
Fax: +61 8 6488 1060
abtcoram@arts.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.


Representative Publications

Books

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

Papers since 2001

The political-economy of conflicts over wealth: why don't the rabble expropriate the rich?' Forthcoming. Public Choice. 2008

The Red Queen and the dynamics of marketing effort in a competition between political parties'. Forthcoming British Journal of Political Science. 2008

The optimal extraction of water along an arbitrarily configured river system. (with L. Noakes) Forthcoming Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 2008'

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

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

'Relative advantage queue jumping and welfare maximizing wealth distribution' 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

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

The Rise and Fall of Support for Political Parties: a Dynamic Analysis, Electoral Studies 22, pp 603-616 (2003)

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

Sharing the Costs of Maintaining Environmental Resources: A Comparison of Different Programmes, Environmental Modelling & Software 16:2, pp 109-117 (2001)

Some Conditions on Equilibria in Symmetric Two Player Discontinuous Games, Economic Letters, 72:2, pp 175-180 (2001)

Some Political Aspects of Taxation and Distribution in Federal Governments: An Application of the Theory of the Core, European Journal of Political Research, 39:4, pp 417-429 (2001)

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