Electronic procurement (e-procurement) has been widely adopted across the private sector, and as such various aspects of its adoption has been researched. The adoption of e-procurement in the public sector is not as widespread, especially in relation the UK Central and Local Government sectors,...

Law No. 17/2003 on State Finance is the regulation on the state finance management. The law contains the change of the state finance management from out-based management to performance-based management. The change of the finance management concept includes the change in the fields of planning,...

This paper examines the relationship between inflation and real income in Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the UK which have adopted a "formal" policy of low or zero inflation target. Using cointegration analysis and a vector error correction model (VECM), it is found...

Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use data from the 2007 Agricultural Resource Management Survey to assess the inequality in the distribution of farm family living expenditures.The impact on inequality of marginal increases in expenditure components with respect to aggregate...

A detailed analysis of six Clean Coal projects revealed that recoupment decisions made by the Department limited its ability to recover the taxpayers` investment. These decisions exempted foreign sales, excluded some domestic sales on certain projects, and lowered the repayment rate on some...