Financial incentives and weight control [PDF]
This paper reviews research studies evaluating the use of financial incentives to promote weight control conducted between 1972 and 2010. It provides an overview of behavioral theories pertaining to incentives and describes empirical studies evaluating specific aspects of incentives.
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MONITORING AS A FORM OF STATE FINANCIAL CONTROL
The article attempts to explore the category of «monitoring» as a form of state financial control. Currently, the state financial control is undergoing a new legislative and subordinate regulation connected with introduction of new forms in practice. The
D. A. Smirnov, V. A. Melnikova
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Minimum levels of performance and notices to improve: guidance applying to the 2011/12 academic year [PDF]
"This document sets out how the Skills Funding Agency and the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) intend to approach identified provider underperformance in the 2011/12 academic year in respect of: financial health and financial management and ...
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Considerations on the Institutional Independence Statute of the Romanian Court of Accounts [PDF]
The article is an analysis of the way the principle of independence works at the level of the Romanian Court of Accounts, the institution habilitated by legal provisions to conduct the financial control/audit activity, in order to obtain an assurance ...
Elena–Carmen BRAGADIREANU
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PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL CONTROL IN THE FIELD OF PURCHASES AND THEIR LEGAL FIXING
The main directions of financial control in the field of procurement are determined by the financial and legal policy of the state. Thus, in order to understand the essence of the principles of financial control in the field of procurement, this ...
A. Gladchuk
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Regional financial development and firm growth in Peru [PDF]
This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial ...
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The subject of research in this paper is the investor’s risk profile as a characteristic of his behavior in the stock market. The purpose of the study is to assess the investor’s risk profile in the form of a risk ratio in a model with a linear ...
V. A. Gorelik, T. V. Zolotova
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Ecuador's New Deal: Reforming and Regulating the Financial Sector [PDF]
This paper looks at Ecuador's financial and regulatory reforms during the past five years, perhaps the most comprehensive of any country in the 21st century: taking control over the central bank, regulating capital outflows, taxing the financial sector ...
Jake Johnston +2 more
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Financial contracts and contingent control rights [PDF]
According to empirical studies of venture capital finance, the division of control rights between entrepreneur and venture capitalists is often contingent on certain measures of firm performance. If the indicator of the company’s performance (eg earnings
Vauhkonen , Jukka
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Guidance on the self-assessment of a provider’s financial management and control arrangements using the financial management and control evaluation (FMCE) return: version 2, november 2010 [PDF]
This guidance has been prepared for the providers that the Skills Funding Agency takes the “lead” for on assurance matters. However, it is also equally applicable to those providers that the YPLA directly funds and l takes the “lead” for on assurance ...
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