Minimizing Public Sector Corruption: The Economics of Crime,Identity Economics,and Money Laundering

Abstract

This paper offers a simple strategic framework to help governments identify various policy mechanisms to minimize public sector corruption. The paper offers a formal model that blends the economics of crime with identity economics and money laundering. It presents a partial equilibrium framework that focuses on a representative public official engaged in a mix of legal and illegal effort. The model introduces various levers a government might use to impact the costs and benefits of illegal effort. The ultimate goal is to help turn volatile vicious cycles of political instability, into steady virtuous cycles of stability, growth, and sustainable development.     

理想格上高效公钥加密方案

目前现存的R—LWE公钥加密方案,普遍存在公钥尺寸大、密文扩展率高的缺陷。给出一种高效的理想格上公钥加密方案,在多用户环境中,借助一个基于广义背包难题的可抵抗碰撞的哈希函数构造用户的公私钥对,缩短了公钥长度;通过增加整个密文中携带消息密文的份额,有效降低了加密每比特明文的平均开销。在安全性方面,由公钥恢复私钥的困难性可以归约到理想格中SVP问题,对密文的攻击相当于求解判定性R—LWE问题。因此,方案能够达到CPA安全性。     

高校评建工作中问题管理模式应用研究

问题管理模式把发现问题作为高校评建工作中经常性的制度内容,把解决问题作为高校评建工作的核心。在高校评建过程中,运用问题管理模式会大大提高评建工作的质量和效率。     

我国新能源战略之消防安全问题研究

新能源战略的实施是我国能源战略调整的重要内容,也是经济可持续发展的重要保证。研究了氢能、燃料电池、"可燃冰"、洁净煤等新能源在开发、生产、储运和使用过程中存在的消防安全问题,并提出了相应的消防安全对策,为确保国家能源战略调整的顺利实施提供技术支持。     

例谈数学问题解决中的创造性思维策略

数学思维策略的选择和运用对于数学问题解决的成败起着关键的作用。通过实例介绍了数学问题解决中常用的几种创造性思维策略:逆向思维策略、发散思维策略、直觉思维策略、转化思维策略和联想类比策略。最后强调指出我们不仅要学生掌握这些思维策略,更重要的是要要求学生在学习、生活中经常有意识地去加以运用,尤其是创造性的运用。这不仅有助于今天的数学学习,更有助于学生将来的发明和创造。     

试论构建我国可持续发展法律制度体系

环境问题由来已久,人们基于对环境问题的认识,提出了可持续发展思想。我国基于自己的环境问题,也提出走可持续发展之路。在可持续发展的大背景下,我国如何构建与之相适应的法律制度体系,以保障和推进可持续发展的进程,是当前需要面临的重要问题。     

学员队干部年轻化存在的问题及对策

近年来,军队院校学员队干部越来越呈现出年轻化的趋势,如何发挥其优势,做到与中年队干部优化配置,是一个值得分析、研究的课题。在调查、研究的基础上,分析了学员队干部年轻化存在的问题,提出了综合考察、优化配置等对策。     

On optimal system designs in reliability‐economics frameworks

Reliability Economics is a field that can be defined as the collection of all problems in which there is tension between the performance of systems of interest and their cost. Given such a problem, the aim is to resolve the tension through an optimization process that identifies the system which maximizes some appropriate criterion function (e.g. expected lifetime per unit cost). In this paper, we focus on coherent systems of n independent and identically distributed (iid) components and mixtures thereof, and characterize both a system's performance and cost as functions of the system's signature vector (Samaniego, IEEE Trans Reliabil (1985) 69–72). For a given family of criterion functions, a variety of optimality results are obtained for systems of arbitrary order n. Approximations are developed and justified when the underlying component distribution is unknown. Assuming the availability of an auxiliary sample of N component failure times, the asymptotic theory of L‐estimators is adapted for the purpose of establishing the consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators of the expected ordered failure times of the n components of the systems under study. These results lead to the identification of ε‐optimal systems relative to the chosen criterion function. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007