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Easier Set Than Done: Stakeholder Engagement as Public-Private Partnership in Regulatory Policy of South Korea

Lee, Jongyearn - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 41 (2019) 3, pp. 39-75

An emphasis on public-private partnership (PPP) in the regulatory policy process can overcome the challenges hindering regulatory effectiveness with the emergence of fast developing technologies and new industries. This study attempts to evaluate quantitatively different aspects of institutional...

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The significance of openness and transparency for accountability in public finances

Szołno-Koguc, Jolanta - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 14 (2018) 2, pp. 58-66

accountability and asserting responsibility? An analysis of the reports and documents concerning the Polish public finance sector … effectiveness and efficiency, which are of key importance in terms of accountability. The aim of the article is to analyse the … requirements and standards in the field of openness and transparency insofar as these concern the responsibility and accountability …

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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953–2017

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - In: Public Choice 189 (2021) 3-4, pp. 555-575

We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors between zero to four from...

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Transparency in Portuguese local government: A study of its determinants

Ribeiro, Nuno; Nogueira, Sónia; Freitas, Ivone - In: European Financial and Accounting Journal 12 (2017) 3, pp. 191-202

Transparency of public management is fundamental to bringing citizens closer to public managers and as such universally considered an element of good governance. The main aim of this study is to identify the factors determining transparency in public management of Portuguese local authorities....

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Toward a theory of Smart Institutions

Goorha, Prateek; Mohan, Vijay - In: Journal of Economic Structures 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-23

We present an analytical approach to institutional analysis that draws inspiration from control process engineering in the physical sciences. We characterize smart institutions as having three foundational features. First, smart institutions are context sensitive and expressly allow for a...

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Employee incentives: Bonuses or penalties?

Nosenzo, Daniele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Firms regularly use incentives to motivate their employees to be more productive. However, often little attention is paid to the language used in employment contracts to describe these incentives. It may be more effective to present incentives as entitlements that can be lost by failing to reach...

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Implementation with evidence

Kartik, Navin; Tercieux, Olivier - In: Theoretical Economics 7 (2012) 2, pp. 323-355

We generalize the canonical problem of Nash implementation by allowing agents to voluntarily provide discriminatory signals, i.e. evidence. Evidence can either take the form of hard information or, more generally, have differential but non-prohibitive costs in different states. In such...

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Designing stable mechanisms for economic environments

Healy, Paul J.; Mathevet, Laurent - In: Theoretical Economics 7 (2012) 3, pp. 609-661

We study the design of mechanisms that implement Lindahl or Walrasian allocations and whose Nash equilibria are dynamically stable for a wide class of adaptive dynamics. We argue that supermodularity is not a desirable stability criterion in this mechanism design context, focusing instead on...

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Implementation in multidimensional dichotomous domains

Mishra, Debasis; Roy, Souvik - In: Theoretical Economics 8 (2013) 2, pp. 431-466

We consider deterministic dominant strategy implementation in multidimensional dichotomous domains in private values and quasi-linear utility setting. In such multidimensional domains, an agent’s type is characterized by a single number, the value of the agent, and a non-empty set of...

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Adverse selection and unraveling in common-value labor markets

Siegel, Ron; Ely, Jeffrey C. - In: Theoretical Economics 8 (2013) 3, pp. 801-827

We investigate a common-value labor setting in which firms interview a worker prior to hiring. When firms have private information about the worker’s value and interview decisions are kept private, many firms may enter the market, interview, and hire with positive probability. When firms’...

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