External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bul...

Canadian Union of Public Employees-CUPE Local 1334 [1] CUPE Local 1334 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all trades, services and maintenance employees of the University of Guelph, employed or normally performing a major part of their work at its campus at Guelph. CUPE Local 1334 Unit 1 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all interims employed in the Library at the Unive...

CUPE Local 1334 [1] is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all trades, services and maintenance employees of the University of Guelph, employed or normally performing a major part of their work at its campus at Guelph. CUPE Local 1334 [1] Unit 1 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all interims employed in the Library at the University of Guelph in the City of Guelph for not m...

CUPE Local 1334 [1] is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all trades, services and maintenance employees of the University of Guelph, employed or normally performing a major part of their work at its campus at Guelph. CUPE Local 1334 [1] Unit 1 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all interims employed in the Library at the University of Guelph in the City of Guelph for not m...

CUPE Local 1334 [1] is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all trades, services and maintenance employees of the University of Guelph, employed or normally performing a major part of their work at its campus at Guelph. CUPE Local 1334 [1] Unit 1 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all interims employed in the Library at the University of Guelph in the City of Guelph for not m...

The first part of this paper presents a coalition formation method for multi-agent systems which finds a Pareto optimal solution without aggregating the preferences of the agents. This protocol is adapted to problems requiring coordination by coalition formation, where it is undesirable, or not possible, to aggregate the preferences of the agents. The second part proposes an extension of this m...

Over the last two decades, some Australian States and Territories have introduced Indigenous Justice Agreements (IJAs) and related strategic frameworks in the hope of addressing consistently high rates of Indigenous incarceration and improving justice service delivery to Indigenous people. Drawing on earlier research by the authors,3 this Research Brief provides an overview and analysis of the ...

The paper considers collective agreements that are signed by a government agency and an industry which have an energy saving target. The target achievement is observable, but the energy saving actions undertaken by firms in the industry are not. We consider such agreements as firm contracts that depend on whether the industry complies with the target or not. We show that first best regulation c...