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Grossman, Michael - 1981

In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and infant mortality, and government regulation of teenage smoking. My review is selective and is based on my own research. It is neutral with respect to the question of whether the...

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Sharing a Government

Ventura, Jaume - 2019

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of projects that produce local benefits for the region that...

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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence From Paraguay

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2018

Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors (middle managers) when ministerial leadership (the principal) introduced a...

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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Cohen, Lauren - 2010

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...

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Management of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations : Governance Models for Transformative Discovery

Okada, Ellie - 2019

as well as ways to build alliance and governance mechanisms for this purpose. This work provides researchers with a …1. Introduction -- 2. Translational Science and Boundary Conceptualization -- 3. Trusteeship Governance and Challenges … to Scientific Knowledge-Intensive-Organizations -- 4. Institutional Barriers and Governance -- 5. Research Policy and …

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Global Outsourcing Discourse : Exploring Modes of IT Governance

Lioliou, Eleni; Willcocks, Leslie P. - 2019

Exploring Outsourcing, Governance and Discourse -- The Study of Information Technology Outsourcing -- Inside Global …

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Multilateral Development Banks : Governance and Finance

Delikanli, Ihsan Ugur; Dimitrov, Todor; Agolli, Roena - 2018

MDB senior official and board member "Multilateral Development Banks: Governance and Finance is a must read for those …“This book provides much needed insights and knowledge about the growing world of multilateral development banks. By … potentials of these important development institutions. The book should be mandatory reading by everyone dealing with MDBs …

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Advances in the Practice of Public Investment Management : Portfolio Modelling, Performance Attribution and Governance

Bulusu, Narayan (ed.); Coche, Joachim (ed.); … - 2018

attribution and governance issues surrounding reserves management, portfolio construction techniques appropriate for public …Part I Foreign Reserves Management Strategies: Implementation, Performance and Governance -- 1. Hedging Potential …

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Democratizing Public Management : Towards Practice-Based Theory

Strumińska-Kutra, Marta - 2018

learning, and uncertainty to address certain tensions in governance theory and practice. Through a range of well-sourced case …1. Practice-Oriented Reflection on Governance -- 2. Metagovernance, Governance, and Learning -- 3. Governance Learning … from an Institutional Perspective -- 4. How Framing Transforms Governance: Public Dispute over the Closure of Three Small …

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The Governance Structures of the Bretton Woods Financial Institutions : A Case of "Beggar-Thy-Neighbour"

Naciri, Ahmed - 2018

Development Banks Fulfill Their Mandate -- Chapter 4: The Paris Club -- Chapter 5: The Governance of the Bretton Woods Financial … Institutions -- Chapter 6: Governance of Regional Development Banks -- Chapter 7: The 2010 Governance Reform of the Bretton Woods … Woods Financial Institutions and the Regional Development Banks -- Chapter 9: Suggested Alternative Governance Model for the …

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