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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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