This study analyzes the teething troubles met by local public authorities when organizing and applying tender proceedings for the award of delegation contracts for the management of the administration services of public and private domain of the territorial administrative units in view of the...

Regionalization is a continuous need to ensure that all the cities can invest in maintaining and improving the infrastructure in order to have, to get quality services at EU standards. This aspect involves approving and implementing adequate developing strategies and policies, oriented to...

Objective assessment of the efficiency/effectiveness of an organization’s activity, based on realistic, measurable indicators, is a fundamental premise for successful strategic planning. Although traditionally associated with the business sector and the concept of economic productivity,...

I consider a contest in which the quantity of output is rewarded and another in which the quality of output is rewarded. The output in the quality contest plays a dual role. It counts in the quality contest but it is also converted into quantity-equivalent output to obtain total output in the...

This paper contributes to the debate concerning the micro-foundation of matching functions in frictional labor markets. The focus is on a particular matching regime, i.e., the so-called urn-ball process. It is shown that in a two-sector economy, even in the presence of heterogeneous workers, the...