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Economic model of regenerative agriculture and factors of agri-food system change
Trifan, Daniela; Toaders, George; Enea, Cătălin-Ioan; … - 2021
The basis of regenerative agriculture is represented by its main element, namely the soil. Ensuring good soil health will lead to many beneficial effects on agricultural ecosystems. Among the main beneficial effects of soil health we can list the management of groundwater resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013346280
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Politics of Randomness
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2002
The main drawback of the public-policy contest is that the notion of contest success function, a crucial component of the contest model, does not have micro-foundations and, therefore, the random behavior of the government seems ad-hoc. In the present paper we propose a partial micro-foundation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315675
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Lobbying and Compromise
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2005
The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first, lobbies are assumed to act as 'principals' and the setters of the policy (the candidates in a Downsian electoral competition or the elected policy maker in a citizen-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261146
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Economic model of regenerative agriculture and factors of agri-food system change
Trifan, Daniela; Toader, George; Enea, Cătălin-Ioan; … - 2022
The basis of regenerative agriculture is represented by its main element, namely the soil. Ensuring good soil health will lead to many beneficial effects on agricultural ecosystems. Among the main beneficial effects of soil health we can list the management of groundwater resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015049640
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An Agency Perspective of Auditor Change in Small Firms
Keasey, Kevin; Watson, Robert - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 1 (1991) 1, pp. 45-59
This paper uses an agency theory perspective to develop an understanding of the determinants of auditor change for … Wilson [9]) from a consideration of auditor change for large firms in the United States to small firms in the U.K. The …, though there is also evidence of auditor ‘accommodation’ being sought. …
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Evaluating effectiveness of external auditors' report: Empirical evidence from Iran
Salehi, Mahdi - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 4 (2010) 1, pp. 69-83
This study emphasizes that it is interesting to study the opinion of the auditor as intermediary information between …
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The influence of audit committee chair characteristics on financial reporting quality
Lutfi, Abdalwali; Saad, Mohamed; Alshira'h, Ahmad Farhan; … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 12, pp. 1-15
financial reports and reduce the possibility for companies to receive a modified audit opinion (MAO) from an external auditor …
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Auditors and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Public Sector
Schelker, Mark - 2008
mandatory auditor rotation requirements have been debated intensively. The available empirical evidence is not conclusive and … and present empirical evidence on the impact of auditor term length and rotation requirements on government performance at … the US State level. We find evidence indicating that relatively short as well as extended auditor terms have a negative …
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Rethinking Public Auditing Institutions: Empirical Evidence from Swiss Municipalities
Schelker, Mark; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2008
In the economic literature various political institutions designed to control the government have been analyzed. However, an important institution has been neglected so far: independent auditing institutions with an extended mandate to analyze the budget draft and individual policy proposals. We...
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Der ELER in der gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik nach 2020: Wie bewerten EvaluatorInnen die europäischen Verordnungsentwürfe?
Fährmann, Barbara; Grajewski, Regina; Bergschmidt, Angela - 2018
contribution to improvements in implementation issues and a stronger focus on public goods like protection of natural resources and …
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