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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …

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Spouses' Access to Financial Services: Estimating Technological and Managerial Gaps in Production

Malabayabas, Maria Luz L.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, … - 2023

The study investigates the effect of the spouse's access to financial services (credit or savings) through membership in a self-help group on adopting technology, technical efficiency, and managerial gaps. To estimate the empirical model, we use farm-level data from rice farming households in...

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The value of business networks in emerging economies: An analysis of firms' external financing opportunities

Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - 2011

The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...

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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...

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Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract

Roider, Andreas - 2004

The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the complete-contracting problem of the parties. We consider a hold-up framework where both parties profit from...

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Contracting with Private Information

Hagedorn, Marcus - 2003

This paper adds to the current literature on incomplete contracting that argues that deviating from a complete information, transaction-cost free environment may be may generate valuable insights. We achieve this by assuming bargaining with asymmetric information. We consider the consequences of...

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Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - 2008

This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...

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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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