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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
Liessem, Verena - 2003
The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476167
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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions
Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005
We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476265
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Essays on Budgetary Institutions: Theory and Evidence
Amoroso, Nicolas Emiliano - 2006
The dissertation offers an analysis of the role of budgetary institutions on the determination of fiscal outcomes. In the second chapter I provide a theoretical model that rationalizes differences in fiscal outcomes of two countries that are supposed to obey the same set of numerical constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450941
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Political Economy in a globalized world ; How politics, culture, and institutional incentives shape economic and political outcomes
Gehring, Kai - 2015
Diese kumulative Dissertation besteht aus drei Abschnitten. I. Geopolitics, Aid and Growth Wir untersuchen den Effekt kurzfristiger politischer Motive auf die Effektivität von Entwicklungshilfe. Dabei testen wir, ob der Effekt der Hilfe auf Wirtschaftswachstum reduziert wird durch den Anteil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288105
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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741962
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Employee perceptions of trust in managers of different gender
Gunpath, Dheshni - 2008
trust that employees place in managers ofdiffering gender, as well as to assess whether there are differences in thetrust … displayed by employees of differing gender.The methodology of the study is based on analysis of questionnairesdistributed within … significant trust differences when samegender relationships were compared to cross gender relationships betweenmanagers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447715
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Contesting 'ethicality': Ethical trade, gender and sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers in Kenya
Kiah Smith - 2011
economy have been combined in analyses of ethical trade to date, it is rare for these studies to draw specifically on gender … gender theory and the sustainable livelihoods framework. Where these perspectives intersect, new insights emerge which … (from political-cultural economy), situated knowledge and participation (from gender theory), and the livelihood strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448348
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Evolution of gender wage gap in Peru, 1997-2000
Longnecker, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464827
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Window dressing? Women, careers and retail management
Broadbridge, A. - 2010
Via the submission of six published papers, this thesis draws together the body of work by Broadbridge on retail management and women’s careers. It reveals the factors that continue to be problematic for women’s careers and why in 2010 they continue to be under-represented in the retail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465917