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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of independent directors and ownership structure on voluntary disclosures of Vietnamese listed firms. Design/methodology/approach – Year‐ending 2008 annual report disclosures of 45 Vietnamese listed firms are analyzed....
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The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme was gradually introduced from 2003 in China. This paper is based on a representative survey of 24 randomly selected township hospitals in Weifang prefecture over the period 2000-2008. Using a generalized form of differences-in-differences model, it aims...
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contributions from a large group of people. In this paper, the authors attempt to investigate how different incentives affect the … incentives, different factors contribute to the quality of work in crowdsourcing tasks. In general the research highlights that …
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decision making creates problems of aligning incentives of vertically related agents, and coordinating the actions of different …
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and experimentation. The results predict the underprovision of optimal incentives and deviation from a standard sufficient … statistics result from the agency literature. It also allows us to address the question of creating the optimal incentives in a …
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This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … inadequate incentives to innovate. Standard results in the health literature suggest that health insurance leads to the … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …
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ein positiver Anreiz. Unsere Untersuchung über die Determinanten des Innovationserfolges liefert empirische Ergebnisse zu …Summary This article compares the innovative activity of managerial and owner-led firms. The incentives to innovate for … managers depend on a trade-off: While the risk associated with innovative activities is a negative stimulus, the possible sales …
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valid or not. Additionally, further kinds of incentives are taken into account. It is shown that the current structure of … the financial incentives influences the decision of the recipients much less than it is assumed. In contrast to this, the …. Therefore, a reform of the German system of social assistance should not only focus on financial incentives.  …
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pharmaceuticals, medical products and medical procedures. We do not have a general theory on the determinants of technological …
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Summary Against the background of growing media interest in professional soccer, this paper proposes a moral hazard model with costly state verification to explain how rule changes affecting the reward scheme of team performance impact on the success of managerial change. As has been shown...
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