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Inspections, informal payments and tax payments by firms
Finance Research Letters, 2022Abstract The aim of this paper is to look at the inspections, bribery, and tax nexus by first looking at the bidirectional causality between bribes and inspections, and then examining the implications of this broader definition of corruption for firms’ tax payments.
Bidisha Lahiri, Haider Ali
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Informal payment for health care and the theory of ‘INXIT’
International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2004AbstractInformal payments are known to be widespread in the post‐communist health care systems of Central and Eastern Europe. However, their role and nature remains contentious, with the debate characterized by much polemic. This paper steps back from this debate to examine the theoretical basis for understanding the persistence of informal payments ...
Péter András Gaál
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The Use of Information in Balance of Payments Forecasting
Economica, 1983Judgmental forecasting is the most common approach adopted within organizations for producing forecasts. Casual evidence suggests that practitioners believe the various approaches adopted under this heading are cheap and flexible, incorporate subtleties that quantitative models cannot, and, most important, are more accurate than simple extrapolative ...
Fildes, Robert A, Fitzgerald, M Desmond
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Market structure and information in payment card markets
International Journal of Automation and Computing, 2010This paper investigates the market structure of the payment card market with consumers and merchants basing their subscription decisions on various information sets.We find that the market structure depends crucially on this information set, where we observe that a market with few cards dominating only emerges when decisions are based on very limited ...
Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova +2 more
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Predictors of Informal Health Payments: The Example from Turkey
Journal of Medical Systems, 2009 Little is known about the factors that can affect informal health payments in Turkey, which is pertinent given that Turkey has been undergoing and considering a series of reforms in the health sector. This paper aims to examine the predictors of informal payments in Turkey.
Bayram Şahin +2 more
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Anthropological Forum, 2014
This article suggests that money payments are central to the persistence of informality in Ukraine because they are more complex than simple bribes—they cement social obligations and even reciprocity. We will use the case study of informal payments in Ukrainian hospitals to illustrate the blurring of boundaries between gift exchanges and bribing. This,
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This article suggests that money payments are central to the persistence of informality in Ukraine because they are more complex than simple bribes—they cement social obligations and even reciprocity. We will use the case study of informal payments in Ukrainian hospitals to illustrate the blurring of boundaries between gift exchanges and bribing. This,
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Linking Payment for Care to Informed Consent
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1989To the Editor. — The article by Mr Kapp1and the accompanying editorial by Faden2in the April 7 issue ofJAMAdeserve comment. Once again, we find nonphysicians making policy statements regarding the dynamics between physicians and patients for which they have no empirical data and little practical experience.
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Informal Payments in Health Care
2017Informal payments in health care exist in many countries around the world. However, the prevalence of informal payments varies between countries. A distinction between illegal or unethical informal payments like bribes and corruption, and legal and ethical forms of informal payment like giving gifts is not always easy to make.
Stepurko, Tetiana +2 more
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Defining informal payments in healthcare: A systematic review
Health Policy, 2013To explore the literature for the definitions of informal payments in healthcare and critically analyze the proposed definitions. This will serve in the process of getting to a coherent definition of informal payments, which will further support acknowledging and addressing them globally.A search strategy was developed to identify papers addressing ...
Răzvan M, Cherecheş +3 more
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