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Should the EU have a president with two hats? (Pro and contra) : yes
Crum, Ben - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 4, pp. 19-20
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Should the EU have a president with two hats? (Pro and contra) : no
Brok, Elmar - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 4, pp. 21-22
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Preferences and the level of satisfaction from the provision of insurance services in activity of the LGUs on a municipal level in Podkarpackie voivodship
Skica, Tomasz; Rodzinka, Jacek - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 8 (2012) 3, pp. 76-84
The article is based on the results of author's study survey conducted on a representative sample of municipalities of Podkarpackie voivodship. Based on the results of research, the article will present both the current state of insurance in local government units (LGUs) of the municipal level,...
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Politically connected firms in Spain
Guerra Pérez, Silvia; Bona Sánchez, Carolina; Santana … - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 18 (2015) 4, pp. 230-245
nature have a negative effect on the likelihood of having ex-politicians on the board of directors. Moreover, the results …
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Politicians in disguise and financial experts on the board: Evidence from Spanish cajas
de Andrés, Pablo; Garcia-Rodriguez, Inigo; … - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 24 (2021) 2, pp. 174-191
directors as politicians in disguise. Second, we analyze how political interests can prevent directors with financial expertise …, we find that politicians in disguise destroy value in the caja and that politically motivated financial experts on the …
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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? Evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012
Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18
. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on … non-public information. However, the question of whether politicians made informed trades at the market level (using non … and find that the STOCK Act adversely affected the ability of politicians' aggregated stock trades to predict the stock …
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The role of local government in the process of entrepreneurship development
Skica, Tomasz; Bem, Agnieszka; Żygadło, Karolina - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-24
This article presents the role of local governments in supporting entrepreneurship development. The content of the article presents the factors which foster activities undertaken by local authorities to promote entrepreneurship and also shows different considerations of when the supporting...
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Effects of vacation properties on local education budgets
Giersch, Jason - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-9
Residents of school districts with large percentages of vacation properties have the opportunity to export a portion of their school taxes onto the owners of those vacation properties. Those property owners are unlikely to consume educational services or have the opportunity to vote against...
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Efficient scale of prefectural government in China
Fukushige, Mototsugu; Shi, Yingxin - In: China Finance and Economic Review 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18
Background: China has five layers of government including the central government. Recently, some prefectural governments meet fiscal distress. Methods: We investigate the effects of urban and rural populations and area sizes on the expenditures of the prefecture-level local government by...
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Towards sustainable development of territorial units: The case of revitalisation projects in Jelenia Góra Agglomeration municipalities
Raszkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 1, pp. 341-351
The article discusses the problem related to sustainable development of territorial units. The introduction covers the theoretical aspects of revitalisation and sustainable development, including the significant role of revitalisation programmes. The primary purpose of the study is to identify...
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