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Balancing investments in public service personnel and its healthcare provision output : an efficiency analysis for Brazilian municipalities
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013
regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515673
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Active and passive waste in government spending: evidence from a policy experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Valletti, Tommaso M. - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1278-1308
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896737
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Will privatization reduce costs?
Lindqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2007
I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456076
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The Role of Local Governments’ Efficiency in Decentralized Public Service Delivery : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Russia
Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2011
satisfaction is ambiguous, little evidence has been provided regarding the role that the efficiency of local governments may play … towards enhancing local governments’ efficiency in three regions of rural Russia (Adyghea, Penza and Perm) at the onset of a … public services. Rather, it appears that enhancing local managerial efficiency in delivering public services is a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175696
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Net Centric Distribution of Video Signal and Must Carry Rules in the U.S.
GARCIA-MURILLO, Martha; MACINNES, Ian - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2010) 77, pp. 79-100
We are moving to a net centric video distribution model. There is thus a need to rethink must carry rules. In this paper we evaluate the process of transition to a model without must carry rules using an organizational change perspective: leadership; engagement and participation; planning and...
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e-Government – Assisting Reformed Public Administration in Romania
GATMAN, Andreea - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 32 (2011) 1(41), pp. 216-242
The adoption of web-based technologies in order to deliver government services has become a global trend in public administration. e-Government also means that governments have to act as a private entity and compete for best delivered services towards citizens due to the societal challenges and...
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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315559
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Between Agora and Shopping Mall
Falkinger, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761928
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584548
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Between Agora and Shopping Mall
Falkinger, Josef - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859630