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The Cost of Government and the Misuse of Public Assets
Prakash, Tej - 2000
This paper deals with efficiency in the public sector. It argues that the habit of relating efficiency to public … could be used for several purposes including increasing public sector efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400238
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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity
International Monetary Fund - 1998
or may not improve economic efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400822
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Linkages Between Financial Variables, Financial Sector Reform and Economic Growth and Efficiency
Johnston, R. B. - 1995
economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395836
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Wholesale Payments and Financial Discipline, Efficiency, and Liquidity
Folkerts-Landau, D. F. I. - 1997
Properly designed wholesale payments system can make a significant contribution to enhancing market discipline in the financial sector, reducing the risk of systemic disturbance and permitting a less extensive safety net for financial institutions. The objective of these reforms has been to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403300
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Hierarchy and Authority in a Dynamic Perspective : A Model Applied to Donor Financing of NGO Proposals
Yontcheva, Boriana - 2003
between two organizational designs: a traditional hierarchy where she retains authority over the choice of projects to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401277
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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Corruption in Bureaucracies
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2000
This paper examines interactions between self-interested agents in a two-tier government hierarchy, consisting of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399923
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Emerging market corporate leverage and global financial conditions
Alter, Adrian; Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2016
Corporate debt in emerging markets has risen significantly in recent years amid accommodative global financial conditions. This paper studies the relationship of leverage growth in emerging market (EM) firms to U.S. monetary conditions, and more broadly, to global financial conditions. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716311
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Risk and the Corporate Structure of Banks
International Monetary Fund - 2010
We identify different sources of risk as important determinants of banks'' corporate structures when expanding into new markets. Subsidiary-based corporate structures benefit from greater protection against economic risk because of affiliate-level limited liability, but are more exposed to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404312
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Investing in public investment : an index of public investment efficiency
Dabla-Norris, Era; Brumby, Jim; Kyobe, Annette; Mills, Zac - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487110
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The redistributive effects of financial deregulation
Korinek, Anton; Kreamer, Jonathan - 2013
Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233893