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...

nterest in commodity prices as indicators of consumer price inflation has ebbed and flowed with the rise and fall in commodity prices themselves. True to form, as commodity prices have surged in the last two years (Chart 1), interest in their predictive power has returned. Inflation hawks point to an outpouring of studies in the late 1980s showing a strong empirical connection between commodity...

We study the incentives of oligopolistic firms to share private information on demand parameters. Differently from previous studies, we consider bilateral sharing agreements, by which firms commit at the ex-ante stage to truthfully share information. We show that if signals are i.i.d., then pairwise stable networks of sharing agreements are either empty or made of fully connected components of ...

I. PRIVACY AS FINAL GOOD AND INTERMEDIATE GOOD .............. 251 II. TREATING PRIVACY AS A FINAL GOOD WITH CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY: INITIAL AGREEMENTS ....................................... 253 A. How Initial Agreements Can Work Well ............................. 254 B. How Initial Agreements Can Fail ....................................... 256 III. MODIFYING POLICIES LATER ........................

The aim of this paper is to show that conventions are sources of tacit agreements. Such agreements are tacit in the sense that they are implicated by what the agents do (or forbear to do) though without that any communication between them be necessary. Conventions are sources of tacit agreements under two substantial assumptions: (1) that there is a salient interpretation, in some contexts, of ...