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Borzaga, Carlo; Ferri, Giovanni; Sabatini, Fabio - 2013

Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open discussion on diversity in economics...

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The Role of Crown Corporations in the Canadian Economy : An Analytical Framework

Iacobucci, Edward; Trebilcock, Michael J. - 2012

Government interference in markets arouses heated emotions on both sides of the political spectrum. But the fact remains that governments of all stripes routinely play a direct role in the economy. Motivations run the gamut from the economic (correcting perceived market failures) to the ethical...

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Credible Commitment and Success with Public Enterprise Reform

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Campos, José Edgardo - 2002

This paper studies why some efforts at public enterprise reform fail and why others succeed. Economic reforms are intended to increase efficiency and, thus, help sustain long term growth. Yet, many governments have had difficulty sustaining the reforms they initiated and have reintroduced rigid...

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Credible Commitment and Success with Public Enterprise Reform

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Campos, José Edgardo - 2000

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Contractor-General Oversight of Public Procurement in the Commonwealth Caribbean

McKoy, Derrick V. - 2011

This paper assesses the role of the Contractor-General in public procurement and the utility of the office in the anticorruption project. The author also examine other initiatives such as anticorruption clauses in procurement contracts, codes of ethics, declaration of assets by public servants,...

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Service Quality and Institutional Change : Keeping Score in Public Sector Reform

McKoy, Derrick V. - 2011

This article argues that it is possible to distinguish between the utility of different institutional structures by comparing the quality service that each typed delivers. As the executive agencies of the new public management are considered to be different from the traditional public sector...

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Administrative Monopoly : The State Action Doctrine under U.S. Antitrust Law

Chin, Yee Wah - 2010

The State Action Doctrine exempts anti-competitive conduct from the United States antitrust laws, under certain conditions. This paper discusses the exemption, particularly its limits, from the perspective of its historical and Constitutional background. It demonstrates that this doctrine does...

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To Whom should We be Fair? Ethical Issues in Balancing Stakeholder Interests from Banco Compartamos Case Study

Ashta, Arvind; Hudon, Marek - 2014

In the world of microfinance, interest rate ethics is an important issue, thrown into the limelight by the Initial Public Offering of Compartamos which resulted in millions of dollars of gains, some of which found their way into private pockets. These high gains were based on high interest...

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Privatization of Credence Goods : Theory and an Application to Residential Youth Care

Lindqvist, Erik - 2011

A wide range of services provided by the public sector are credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. This paper studies how ownership affects the incentives for producers to reveal such information to public...

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Welfare Analysis of Privatization in a Mixed Market with Bargaining

Jiang, Lily - 2008

The author analyzes the welfare effects of privatization in a mixed duopoly model in which the wage rate for the … privatized firm is determined by Nash bargaining beforehand. The evaluations are based on three-stage privatization frameworks … optimal degrees of privatization from the viewpoint of social welfare may be different for various types of competition. The …

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