Examines the recent changes made to the public sector in the UK in the context of relevant economic models, including the principal‐agent model, public goods theory and the median voter model. Considers a umber of possible justifications for the changes, including the emulation of the private...

This paper is a cross border study that explores isolating the efficiency component and measuring its overall contribution to productivity in the case of out of hours (OOH) primary care services operating on the Island of Ireland. Out of hours GP care is supplied throughout the Island of Ireland...

We study the incentives of noncooperative players to play a cooperative game. That is, we look for individually rational, redistributive, pre-game agreements enacted in order to coordinate towards efficient equilibrium play. Contrasting with standard Nash equilibrium analysis, we assume that...