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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India

Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014

economic efficiency of the entire operation. At the same time, there is high incidence of malnutrition and rising food grain …

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Public charge in the time of coronavirus

Tepepa, Martha - 2020

The United States government recently passed legislation and stabilization packages to respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free virus testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid...

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Political connections, allocation of stimulus spending, and the jobs multiplier

Choi, Joonkyu; Penciakova, Veronika; Saffie, Felipe - 2021

Using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) data, we show that firms lever their political connections to win stimulus grants and that public expenditure channeled through politically connected firms hinders job creation. We build a unique database that links information on campaign...

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Assessing Social Costs of Inefficient Procurement Design

Eklöf, Matias - 2003

This paper considers the social costs implied by inefficient allocation of contracts in a first price, sealed bid procurement auction with asymmetric bidders. We adopt a constrained (piecewise linear) strategy equilibrium concept and estimate the structural parameters of the bidders'...

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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance:Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companiesin Hungary and Poland.

Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...

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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform

Anell, Anders; Dackehag, Margareta; Dietrichson, Jens; … - 2022

Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. When care providers are paid prospectively, e.g., by a fixed sum per patient, existing inequalities may be sustained by the incentives to undertreat relatively unhealthy patients. To counter this, prospective...

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Time tracking in home care: Perceptions and reality

Jordahl, Henrik; Blix, Mårten; Moberg, Linda; Persson, … - 2023

We examine the implementation of digital time tracking in home care services in Swedish municipalities. Our study combines original survey data with external measures of quality and costs, allowing us to examine both the perceived and estimated effects of time tracking. According to the...

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Should the government sell you goods? Evidence from the milk market in Mexico

Jiménez Hernández, Diego; Seira, Enrique - 2023

Governments spend considerable resources providing goods directly. We show that such behavior may increase welfare when private suppliers have market power. We do this by studying the staggered rollout of hundreds of government milk "ration stores" in Mexico using a proprietary panel of...

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Is Privatization Enough? Finding Performance Breaks for UK Power Plants

Triebs, Thomas P.; Pollitt, Michael G. - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2010

than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly … compiled unbalanced panel of about 60 plants for the years 1980 to 2004. We measure efficiency as input demands for two …

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STRUCTURAL REFORM AND FIRM PROFITABILITYIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

CUERVO-CAZURRA, Alvaro; DAU, Luis Alfonso - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008

We extend agency theory to propose that structural reform positively impacts firm profitability indeveloping countries because the improvements in external monitoring that accompany structuralreform decrease the agency costs faced by firms. However, we also argue that not all firmsbenefit...

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