We offer here the psychological attraction approach to accounting and disclosure rules, regulation, and policy as a program for positive accounting research. We suggest that psychological forces have shaped and continue to shape rules and policies in two different ways. (1) Good Rules for Bad...

Analysis of public production system efficiency has two aspects: assessment of the process of its functioning, and assessment of its effectiveness in terms of system's useful function (the extent of implementation). Traditionally we consider the efficiency of process as the ratio of result to...