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relates to the candidates type . Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering tenure or guaranteed …
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Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances worldwide over the last three decades. The region has also had the highest non-oil external trade balance deficit among developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in...
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We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...
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implementation leads to more delegation, but only if workers have high costs of obstructing informed decisions. We further find that …
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example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project aid represents a more "centralized" type of aid. According to the theory … of policies should be increased (delegation). Conversely, there should be less freedom in designing policies when donors …
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This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
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competition with a local competitor. The MNE has two aims in setting the transfer price: strategic delegation and tax minimization … neither strategic delegation nor tax minimization will be eliminated, trade-offs are inevitable, albeit to varying degree. …
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Using an agency model, we show how delegation, by generating additional private information, improves dynamic … effect which reduces an inefficient agent's take-the-money-and-run incentive. Although delegation entails a loss of control …, it is optimal when uncertainty about operational efficiency is large. Moreover, delegation is more effective with …
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established at the union-wide level. Furthermore, we show that fiscal delegation is more effective in restraining debt, and more …
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