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Local Public Finances and Municipal Reform in Finland

André, Christophe; García, Clara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...

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Measuring efficiency in the Croatian customs service: a data envelopment analysis approach

Benazic, Alen - In: Financial Theory and Practice 36 (2012) 2, pp. 139-178

The concept of efficiency in the public services is more complex than the concept of efficiency in the private, profit-oriented sector. Consequently, the measurement of efficiency in the public services is very complex and implies more effort in the identification of relevant outputs and inputs....

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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery

Sow, Moussé; Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate...

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Analysis of Fiscal Descentralization in the Context of Modern Governance

Irina, Bosie - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 219-222

Financial decentralization aimed the central and local state structure by increasing local autonomy, leaving available to local authorities, public finances. It extended a global phenomenon and the world's developed countries have implemented the concept. Developing countries continue to seek...

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Sustaining the Momentum of Fiscal Reform in Hungary

Forthun, Colin; Hagemann, Robert P. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Hungary has faced a considerable challenge to regain credibility following persistent and high fiscal deficits. Efforts during recent years have produced substantial results. The fiscal deficit has been brought down significantly and, despite the recession, fiscal consolidation has continued to...

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002

Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Equity, international trade and climate policy

Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 2 (2002) 1, pp. 23-48

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THE MOTIVATION PROCESS OF HUMAN RESOURCES WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION

Nicoleta, Isac; Eliza, Antoniu - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 8 (2013) 4.1, pp. 100-107

One of the basic conditions leading to increased competitiveness in today's business organizations is the motivation of … human resources. Motivation is not just a theoretical concept, an end in itself, but a more insistently valuable tool used … by managers to achieve higher performance and achieving the optimum cost and quality. A research on the motivation of …

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How to make suger production more effective: A case of Ukraine

Goncharuk, Anatoliy G. - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 14 (2009) 1, pp. 105-105

The article is devoted to the analysis of efficiency of sugar companies of Ukraine and the ways of its improving. The decreasing return to scale and scale inefficiency for the majority of sugar companies are determined. The main factors of sugar plants inefficiency are defined. Developed...

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