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Essays on the Behavior of Firms and Politicians

Riem, Marina - 2017

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...

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Economies of Scale and Efficiency Measurement in Switzerland's Nursing Homes

Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo; Lunati, Diego - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 144 (2008) 3, pp. 359-378

This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosive growth of national expenditure on elderly care and the aging of the population. A stochastic cost frontier model has been applied to a panel of 1780...

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Languages and conforming tax avoidance: The roles of corruption and public governance

Faisal, Muhammad; Utama, Sidharta; Sari, Dahlia; Rosid, … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-30

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between language structures and prevalent tax avoidance practices, specifically focusing on the influence of linguistic future time reference (FTR) on conforming tax avoidance. It also explores how corruption and public governance modulate this...

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HR development in local government: How and why does HR strategy matter in organizational change and development?

Bruns, Hans-Jürgen - In: Business Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 1-49

Human resource (HR) management has been proposed as being one of the core drivers of the modernization of the public sector, in particular with reference to the changing nature of people management and "HR-public service partnerships" as an antecedent capacity of modernizing public service...

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Measuring internal auditor's intention to blow the whistle (a Quasi-experiment of internal auditors in the local government)

Habbe, Abdul Hamid; Rasyid, Syarifuddin; Arif, Hermita; … - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 20 (2019), pp. 224-233

This study measures the cognitive moral development and tests its interaction with antecedent variables of prosocial behaviour such as fraud level, the status of person committing fraud and cohesiveness in affecting the willingness of internal auditors of local government (APIPs) to be a...

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Is firms' profitability affected by working capital management? A novel market-based evidence in Jordan

Soda, Mohammed Zakaria; Makhlouf, Mohammed Hassan; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9

This paper aimed to look into the relationship between working capital management and industrial firms' profitability listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from 2014 to 2020. The data incorporated into the yearly statements of 23 listed industrial firms have been collated to investigate the...

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The influence of size on cost behaviour associated with tactical and operational flexibility

Argilés Bosch, Josep Maria; Blandón, Josep García - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 419-455

farms in situations of operational and tactical flexibility. On the one hand, the increase in indirect costs with product … stickiness, the biggest face considerable rigidities in downsizing indirect costs when activity decreases. …

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Berechnung der BIP-Elastizitäten öffentlicher Ausgaben und Einnahmen zu Prognosezwecken und Diskussion ihrer Volatilität: Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen

Büttner, Thiess; Dehne, Anita; Flaig, Gebhard; … - 2006

Gegenstand der Studie ist die Quantifizierung des gleichsam automatischen Einflusses der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung auf einzelne Budgetkomponenten und das Budget insgesamt, um den Effekt einer hypothetischen Änderung in der Entwicklung des Outputs auf das Budget und das Defizit abzuschätzen...

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Forecasting profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 2013

areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all … when there is no skill. We show, using an IV strategy in which the Indian government forecast of monsoon rainfall serves as … compared with farmers without access to forecasts. Even modest improvements in forecast skill would substantially increase …

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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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