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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet … Union and sheds light on their different reform strategies, particularly with regard to the prevalence of the experimental …

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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in …

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The inherent limits of ‘legal devices’: lessons for the public sector's central counterparty prescription for the OTC derivatives markets

Braithwaite, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In the wake of the financial crisis considerable momentum has built up behind proposals to extend central counterparty (CCP) clearing in the over-the-counter derivatives markets. However, implementation is proving complex. This paper argues that one cause of this complexity is that the public...

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Political competition and societal veto players: the politics of pension reform in Southern Europe

Carrera, Leandro N.; Marina, Angelaki; Carolo, Daniel … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

elucidate the differences in reform outcomes, in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Our analysis shows that significant reforms …

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Governance from below: a theory of local government with two empirical tests

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local government works. This paper proposes a theory of...

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Political Parties and Trade Unions in Cyprus

Katsourides, Yiannos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The political parties in Cyprus are extremely powerful. They play a dominant role in the public as well as the private sphere, resulting in a civil society that is extremely weak. The article will address two issues. First, it will map the evolution of civil society organisations (CSOs),...

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Crisis Social Policy and Social Justice: the case for Greece

Venieris, Dimitris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

the key elements of social justice do not inform social policy reform in times of crisis, and that the embedded political …

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The Causal Powers of Social Change: the Case of Modern Greek Society

Chalari, Athanasia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article provides an empirical exploration of social change, by assessing subjective experiences and evaluations in relation to social alterations in Modern Greek society. The investigation concerns whether change in everyday life deriving from the Greek crisis also involves an alteration in...

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The European Securities and Markets Authority and institutional design for the EU financial market – a tale of two competences: Part (2) rules in action

Moloney, Niamh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

was established in January 2011. In the wake of the financial crisis, the case for institutional reform and for conferring … regulatory and supervisory powers on a central EU authority became compelling. But any institutional design would have struggled … EU powers, and with respect to regulation and supervision, should any new body's powers be placed if optimum outcomes are …

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.

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