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Anti-corruption programmes in post-communist transition countries and changes in the business environment, 1999-2002
Steves, Franklin; Rousso, Alan - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities … are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to … international anti-corruption conventions. The paper presents a new measure for determining the extent of anti- corruption activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412534
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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125721
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TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF ACCOUNTING A WESTERN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGE: A PARTIAL EXAMINATION
salvary, stanley c. w. - EconWPA - 2005
Given the call for the development of an accounting conceptual framework, this paper rejects the need for such an undertaking. Using a historical methodology this paper traces the existence of an accounting conceptual framework that painstakingly has been established over the centuries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413174
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a confusing body of terminology that is more like a jungle of issues than a framework to enable focused action. Businesses, in particular, with their global reach, influence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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The Role of Incentive Design in Parliamentarian Anti-Corruption Programmes
Michael, Bryane - EconWPA - 2005
The “first wave” of donor sponsored anti-corruption programmes usefully focused on elaborating recommendations for … parliamentarians or tried to train them (develop human capital) in anti-corruption. Now it time for these programmes to take into … competition, patronage, and enforcement. The paper also reviews some basic theories from formal political economy which may be of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135087
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Corporate governance in Greece: developments and policy implications
Spanos, Loukas - EconWPA - 2005
The upgrading of the Greek capital market and the effort to join other mature capital markets has posed corporate governance reform as a first priority. In addition, the 2004 Olympic Games put the Greek market in the international spotlight and will likely invite interest from foreign investors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561586
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Little Firms and Big Patents: The Incentives To Disclose Competencies
Gick, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2004
This paper offers a theoretical treatment of information disclosure through patenting. We consider a signaling model in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134533
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False Modesty
Harbaugh, Rick; To, Dr. Theodore - EconWPA - 2005
Is it always wise to disclose good news? When both the sender and the receiver have private information about the sender's quality, we find that the worst sender type with good news has the most incentive to disclose it, so reporting good news can paradoxically make the sender look bad. If the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118518
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Disclosure to an Audience with Limited Attention
Hirshleifer, David; LIM, SONYA SEONGYEON; Teoh, Siew Hong - EconWPA - 2004
signals, and toward reasoning through the implications of a failure to disclose. In equilibrium disclosure is incomplete, and … observers are unrealistically optimistic. Nevertheless, regulation requiring greater disclosure can reduce observers' belief … accuracies and welfare. A stronger tendency to neglect disclosed signals increases disclosure, whereas a stronger tendency to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407521
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Western Institution Building:The War, Hayek’s Cosmos and the WTO
Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2005
Despite the shortcomings of Hayek’s spontaneous order, there is a positive side, perhaps even a positive feedback. Hayek left us with a “what if” question and returns us to that initial opening of Pandora’s Box, or perhaps the initial onset of neo-realism, neo-liberalism,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407658