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Türkiye'nin Ekonomi-Politiği ve Mali Krizler
toprak, metin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The problems Turkey faces today are because of neither poor performances of a few governments nor solely economic factors. Turkey has serious structural difficulties in the fields of economic, political and human rights which have been seen in totalitarian and authoritarian countries of Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623455
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The ecological system of innovation: A new architectural framework for a functional evidence-based platform for science and innovation policy
Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy attention seems to be focused on the capacity to innovate and on input factors such as R&D investment, scientific institutions, human resources and capital. Such inputs frequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295267
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Polity qualities: how governance affects poverty
Moore, Mick; Leavy, Jennifer; Houtzager, Peter; White, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
strengthen this particular accountability mechanism nor to play an independent rold in raising RICE scores: we could find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787127
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Corruption as a response to regulation
Noel D., Johnson; William, Ruger; Jason, Sorens; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Previous research has found a negative effect of corruption on growth in the United States. However, some theory … suggests corruption might have a positive impact in places with dysfunctional political institutions. This paper investigates … whether the corruption-growth link is conditional on the extent of government involvement across U.S. states. Even though no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650661
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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112282
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Development of Direct Democracy in Swiss Cantons between 1997 and 2003
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically the statutory initiative and referendum, the constitutional initiative, and the fiscal referendum. In particular, it discusses their applications, but also the legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039975
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Optimal public goods provision: implications of endogenizing the labor/leisure choice
Flores, Nicholas E.; Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Conventional analysis of public goods provision aggregates individual willinness to pay while treating income as exogenous, ignoring the fact that we generate income to allow us to purchase utility-generating goods. We explore the implications of endogenizing the laborl/leisure decision by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567671
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Toilet Seat Rules: Why you Shouldn't Care
Marvasi, Enrico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyzes the issue of choosing a socially efficient rule on how to leave the toilet seat. Leaving the seat as it is after usage is found to be the best rule over a wide parameters space. Using a loss function minimization approach, factors such as relative toilet usage, frequency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108224
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On the Religion-Public Policy Correlation
Soldatos, Gerasimos T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The interplay between religious and political authorities has been commonplace and study subject of political science. The interplay between politics and economics has been commonplace too, and the focus of political economy. That is, politics emerges as the link between religious and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109430
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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments
Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111456