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Position of OLAF in a multi-level governance system of the European Union [PDF]
Przegląd Europejski, 2019 The author aims to investigate the position of OLAF in the multi-level governance system (MLG) of the European Union with specific inter-institutional consequences of such location, assuming that OLAF is not a classical supranational institution.
Janusz Ruszkowski
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Principal-agent theory and research policy: an introduction [PDF]
Science and Public Policy, 2003 The rational choice perspective is prominent in many sociological, economic and political science literature but has been undervalued until now in the field of science studies. This special issue attempts to revalorise this perspective by introducing the principal-agent theory with relation to research policy-making. The introduction presents the basic
Dietmar Braun, David H Guston
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Theories of behavior in principal–agent relationships with hidden action [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2007 Abstract In a laboratory experiment, we investigate behavior in a principal–agent situation with moral hazard. We evaluate the predictive success of two theories. One is the standard agency theory, which assumes that the agent will accept any contract offer that satisfies his participation constraint, typically requiring zero expected utility.
Keser, Claudia, Willinger, Marc
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Высшее образование в России, 2021 The article focuses on the current state of the balance of interests in the field of organizing research activities in Russian universities. The theoretical framework of the research is the theory of the principal-agent, from the position of which the ...
D. G. Sandler +3 more
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Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal, 2023 Supported by the principal-agent theory, higher-order theory, and financing constraint theory, this study aimed to examine the effect of disciplinary inspection commission (DIC) participation in BG on Chinese state-owned firms’ financing constraints ...
Jing Zhou +3 more
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Structural estimation of a principal-agent model: moral hazard in medical insurance [PDF]
, 2003 Despite the importance of principal-agent models in the development of modern economic theory, there are few estimations of these models. I recover the estimates of a principal-agent model and obtain an approximation to the optimal contract.
Vera-Hernandez, Marcos +1 more
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Social Theory and the Sociology of Clientelism: Groundwork for a Gramscian Alternative
SociologicaThe category “clientelism” captures a very wide variety of political phenomena, wider perhaps than other peer concepts. It also harbors the potential to serve as an alternative to both liberal institutionalism and power elite theory. But recent trends in
Simeon J. Newman
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MAIN CONTRACTOR – SUBCONTRACTOR RELATIONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF CONTRACT THEORY [PDF]
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2018 The purpose of this paper is to study optimal relationships between customer, main contractor, and subcontractor. We make the following assumptions: main contractor and subcontractor have types that specify expenses and outcomes for all actions that can ...
Iryna Nykyforchyn, Nataliia Suduk
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo +9 more
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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 China has promoted the development of the new energy power generation industry since 2013. However, the high proportion of unique energy access to the grid brings greater volatility and uncertainty.
Wei Li +4 more
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