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What do central bankers do? : evidence from the European Central Bank's Executive Board
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019
This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962284
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Managers as knowledge carriers : explaining Firms' internationalization success with manager mobility
Meinen, Philipp; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Sala, Davide; … - 2018
How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867233
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What crisis? : taking stock of management researchers' experiences with and views of scholarly misconduct
Hoover, Gary A.; Hopp, Christian - 2017
,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717154
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Compliance effects of risk-based tax audits
Løyland, Knut; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Torsvik, Gaute; … - 2019
Tax administrations use machine learning to predict risk scores as a basis for selecting individual taxpayers for audit. Audits detect noncompliance immediately, but may also alter future filing behavior. This analysis is the first to estimate compliance effects of audits among high-risk wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001649
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A simple four quadrants model to monitor the performance of local governments
Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - 2014
This paper, conducted as part of the research activities of SOSE S.p.A., develops a simple and innovative model to evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of information and fewer assumptions than traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428748
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse (contributor);  … - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and … management ; public service motivation ; managerial ability ; self-selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772147
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National representation in multinational institutions : the case of the European Central Bank
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2011
determine national representation in the top management of the ECB. Further, there is evidence for the existence of national … networks between adjacent management layers. Finally, monetary policy decisions seem to be linked to national representation in … macroeconomic data. Our results indicate that weights based on national representation in the mid-level management of the ECB's core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301395
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The interrelationship between formal and informal decentralization and its impact on sub-central governance performance : the case of Vietnam
Thanh, Thuy Vu; Zouikri, Messaoud; Deffains, Bruno - 2012 - This vers.: November 2011
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488951
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Using real-time data to test for political budget cycles
Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2012 - This version: September 2012
We use real-time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621694
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
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