Which electorates receive targeted funding, and does targeted funding swing votes? To answer these questions, I focus on four discretionary programs introduced by the Australian federal government during the 2001-04 election cycle: Roads to Recovery, Stronger Families and Communities, Sustainable Regions, and Regional Partnerships. Together, these programs totalled well over $1 billion dollars....

I use a machine learning technique to classify the universe of active US equity mutual funds as quantitative , who mostly rely of computer-driven models and xed rules, or discretionary , who mostly rely on human judgement. I rst document several new facts about quantitative investing. I then propose an equilibrium model in which quantitative funds have a greater information processing capacity ...

The article deals with the principle of discretionary prosecution and its significance for activities prosecutor in criminal proceedings.The purpose is to define discretion as a determine influence on proceedings.It justified that prosecutorial based internal conviction prosecutor, which serves an impulse him carry out indictment or abandon it. Therefore, prosecutor’s prosecution, including vio...