International Institutions: For better or worst

Institutions: stronger veterinary services for better governance.

Veterinary Services (VS) as defined by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are institutions that can have varied structures, from the centralised to the completely decentralised, with ranges in between these two extremes. The VS include a broad range of public and civil society organisations and actors whose shared purpose is to deliver animal health services, and the interactions of...

Designing International Institutions Hierarchy

Contingent Public Support for International Legal Institutions

State cooperation with international institutions requires support from subnational constituencies. We argue that citizens often approve of abstract, foreign actions by institutions, yet disapprove of specific, local actions. We argue this aversion is greatest for citizens in closest “proximity” to institutional actions. We assess these arguments with a survey experiment about the International...

International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability

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Slowing Down Top Trees for Better Worst-Case Bounds

We consider the top tree compression scheme introduced by Bille et al. [ICALP 2013] and construct an infinite family of trees on n nodes labeled from an alphabet of size σ, for which the size of the top DAG is Θ( n logσ n log logσ n). Our construction matches a previously known upper bound and exhibits a weakness of this scheme, as the information-theoretic lower bound is Ω( n logσ n ). This se...