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Das Volkskommissariat für Außenhandel und seine Nachfolgeorganisationen 1920- 1930
Heubaum, Regine - 2002
bureaucracy and analyses administrative and political processes, proceeding the rise of stalinism. The study deals with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467018
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro-Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabrianova, Klara - 2007
This study provides the first systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477117
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An institution theory approach to the relationship between organization and society
Gebhardt, Christian - 2011
results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447139
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The Political Determinants of the Depth of Banking Crises
Winkler, Nicolas - 2006
Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471832
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Corruption and Central Banks
Schinke, Michael - 2005
welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484798
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Three Essays on Anti-Corruption Legislation and Reform
Nell, Mathias - 2007
in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484807
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Beschaffung, Handel und Konsum illegaler Drogen im Strafvollzug - Eine Situationsanalyse -
Filter, Ilona - 2010
Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468267
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Developing Commitment Towards Change in Bureaucracies: The Case-Study of the Egyptian Civil Service Sector
Abdel-Basset, Nada A. - 2009
This thesis examines the management of change in bureaucracies, with a study focus on the Egyptian civil service sector. The main research aims are to identify what are the main problems of the Egyptian civil service sector, identify the main barriers against the current change programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465963
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Public versus private nonprofit response to Hurricane Katrina
Woolf, Kaitlin R. - 2008
Thesis advisors: Dr. Steven Cades, Dr. Catherine P. Mulder
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467595
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The effects of stochastic demand and expense preference behaviour on public hospital costs and excess capacity
Lovell, C.A. Knox; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Ana; Wall, Alan - 2009
The literature to date on the effect of demand uncertainty on public hospital costs and excess capacity has not taken into account the role of expense preference behaviour. Similarly, the research on expense preference behaviour has not taken demand uncertainty into account. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448723