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Transparency, e-government, and accountability : some issues and considerations
Halachmi, Arie; Greiling, Dorothea - In: Public performance & management review 36 (2012/13) 4, pp. 562-584
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Improving transparency in the financial sector
Chen, Yu-che - In: Public performance & management review 37 (2013/14) 2, pp. 241-262
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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Losers and losers : some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379672
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Growth and exit of West German firms : an empirical investigation on the impact of liability statutes
Harhoff, Dietmar; Stahl, Konrad; Woywode, Michael J. - 1995
In this paper we discuss determinants of firm survival and growth in Germany within its pre-1989 boundaries. We develop our central hypotheses on the basis of a simple theoretical model describing the self-selection of heterogeneous entrepreneurs into particular legal forms, and the implications...
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Growth and exit of West German firms : an empirical investigation on the impact of liability statutes
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995
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Reputation and credit market formation : how relational incentives and legal contract enforcement interact
Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2009
The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...
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Is there too much US consumer debt?
Silk, Julian I. - 1993
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Household external finance and consumption
Besley, Timothy (contributor); Meads, Neil (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the spread paid by risky borrowers in the mortgage market....
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