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Compliance costs of environmental regulation with incomplete information

Clerger, Gaspard; Chávez, Carlos; Villena, Mauricio; … - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 165-190

We study the cost-effectiveness of a transferable emissions permit system (TEPS) vis a vis a system of emissions standards. Our analysis includes along with abatement costs, the costs of enforcing the system to induce compliance. Further, the analysis considers complete and incomplete...

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The role of trust in the resource allocation process of an old university

Manochin, Melina M. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 38-52

The issue of effective management accounting systems, and especially the resource allocation procedures, have attracted considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several universities adopt different approaches to the...

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Study on the collusive corruption in supervision of bank credit

Nan, Xu-guang; Kao, Meng-chun - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 1, pp. 93-103

Commercial banks are typical hierarchical organizations, in which the multipleprincipal-agent problem exists and induces serious internal collusive corruption. This article analyzes the collusive corruption between credit supervisors and credit managers in bank credit activities, through three...

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The determinants of economic corruption : a probabilistic approach

Mohamed Abdel Rahman Salih - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 155-169

The determinants of corruption have been debated by economists and non-economists for the past few decades. However, no consensus has been reached about the exact determinants of corruption and as well the direction of the effect of some the known key variables used in corruption studies. Most...

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Corruption and firm performance : evidence from Greek firms

Athanasouli, Daphne; Goujard, Antoine; Sklias, Pantelis - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 43-67

This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of ‘administrative corruption’, whereby firms engage in corrupt...

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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? ; una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar

Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51

This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...

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Effect of corporate leniency program on cartel dissolution under market uncertainty

Cai, Xiaowei - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 141-160

by the antitrust agency. We develop a dynamic model in which an incumbent cartel decides whether or not to voluntarily … dissolve the cartel based on the observed profit and the antitrust agency’s cartel deterrence index when there is leniency … elasticity, industry size, and the cost of entry which determine excess profits jointly, the antitrust agency might be able to …

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La prestación del servicio postal universal en un contexto de precio uniforme y descremado del mercado : ¿Existe riesgo de graveyard spiral?

Pateiro Rodríguez, Carlos; Prado Domínguez, Javier; … - In: Atlantic review of economics 2 (2011), pp. 1-27

This paper focuses on the problems posed by the uniform price and market cream skimming in a context in which the incumbent is restricted asymmetric prices and products and analyzes the risks of a graveyard spiral process. We point that the price elasticity of demand, the brand loyalty and the...

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CCTS-Technologie ein Fehlschlag : Umdenken in der Energiewende notwendig

Hirschhausen, Christian von; Herold, Johannes; Oei, Pao-yu - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 6, pp. 3-9

In den kommenden zwei Jahrzehnten wird die CO2-Abscheidung auf dem deutschen Stromsektor keine Rolle spielen. Dies zeichnet sich spätestens seit der öffentlichen Bekanntgabe von Bundesumweltminister Norbert Röttgen vom 29. Oktober 2011 und der Absage des CCTS-Demonstrationsprojekts am...

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Geburten in Ost- und Westdeutschland : erleichtert eine hohe Risikobereitschaft die Entscheidung für ein Kind?

Schmitt, Christian - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 11, pp. 18-23

Die von wirtschaftlichen Umbrüchen geprägten Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung waren für viele Ostdeutsche mit zunehmender Unsicherheit verbunden, während die Veränderungen in Westdeutschland weitaus weniger gravierend waren. In der Folge kam es in den 90er Jahren zu einem massiven Rückgang...

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