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Governance and Efficiency With and Without Government

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
This paper explores the relationships between forms of governance and efficiency, in societies with and without State, with several specific agent behaviors. Using a theoretical framework where the private agents are, or are not, able to efficiently coordinate their actions, we study how forms of governance affect the level of welfare of each society.
Angelini, Francesco, Candela, Guido, Castellani, Massimiliano   +2 more
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Local Government as Efficient Government

Economic Affairs, 1988
What is the proper role of local government? Professor P.M. Jackson of Leicester University argues that local government deserves more support it gets. It can operate as a valuable counterweight to the centralising tendencies of national government.
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The Auditing of Efficiency in Government

Managerial Auditing Journal, 1986
Management looks to internal auditing to do more than verify the validity and accuracy of financial statements and to detect fraud. Although fairness of presentation of the financial statements is important and although the deterrence of fraud and misuse of resources is also important, management is usually aware that losses sustained as a result of ...
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Elections and Government Efficiency

2021
Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and ...
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McKean on Government Efficiency

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1959
intensive goods to countries other than the United States. This may be considered as supporting the generally held opinion that Japan's foreign trade is two-sided.10 We suspect that American foreign trade might have a similar nature. If data were available on the capital-labor ratios for United States exports broken down by countries, then more ...
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Corporate Governance Efficiency

2019
Since the time of the first corporations, shareholders have expected boards to manage corporate governance processes in the best way. At the same time, the era of digital technology can significantly increase the effectiveness of corporate governance procedures through automation of corporate governance procedures as business processes.
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Efficiency and returns-to-scale of local governments

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2012
Local governments of advanced countries often have financial problems. Most central governments promote re-organization of local governments into larger local governments in order to reduce operating costs. Although cost reductions have been discussed by governments, political parties, economic institutes, etc, changes in industrial efficiency in ...
H Amatatsu, T Ueda, Y Amatatsu
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Empty Voting and the Efficiency of Corporate Governance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Abstract We model corporate voting outcomes when an informed trader, such as a hedge fund, can establish separate positions in a firm's shares and votes (empty voting). The positions are separated by borrowing shares on the record date, hedging economic exposure, or trading between record and voting dates.
Alon Brav, Richmond D. Mathews
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Establishing Efficient Governance through Data-Driven e-Government

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2018
Economies are changing for the better with the evolution of technology and today, it is faster and cheaper to process data than before. Data in the 21st century reinforces all activities and is an enabler of growth in the wider economy. This paper explores big data in the public sector and buttresses the need for data-driven e-Government as the next ...
Ebenezer Agbozo, Kamen Spassov
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