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Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

overall likelihood of bribing tends to a maximum determined by the control mechanisms. The factors affecting the expectation … aimed at continuously perfecting the regulations and the control mechanisms. As the latter are expensive, it is argued that … the overall efficiency of the system, including but beyond control of corruption. …

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What If? A Look at Integrity Pacts

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

This note examines the Integrity Pact (IP) methodology proposed by Transparency International to confront the problem of corruption in public procurement. The examination draws from a decision model for participants developed elsewhere, in which the critical elements are shown to be the...

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Architectures of Control in Consumer Product Design

Lockton, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

The idea of architectures of control is introduced through examples ranging from urban planning to digital rights …

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A Tale of Two Wages: Separating Contract from Governance

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1997

This paper distinguishes between governance structure and contractual form. The basic premise is that researchers often confuse these two concepts when they develop or empirically test models within the transaction cost framework. In the paper I utilize a simple principal- agent model to show...

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QUALITATIVE ANSWERING SURVEYS AND SOFT COMPUTING

Morillas, Antonio; Díaz, Bárbara - EconWPA - 2005

In this work, we reflect on some questions about the measurement problem in economics and, especially, their relationship with the scientific method. Statistical sources frequently used by economists contain qualitative information obtained from verbal expressions of individuals by means of...

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