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A time study of physicians' work in a German university eye hospital to estimate unit costs.
(2015)BACKGROUND: Technical efficiency of hospital services is debated since performance has been heterogeneous. Staff time represents the main resource in patient care and its inappropriate allocation has been identified as a ... -
Total bureaucratisation, neo-liberalism, and Weberian oligarchy
(University of Leicester, University of Essex, 2016-03-01)David Graeber’s book on rules and bureaucracy examines the topic from a refreshing standpoint. Much management literature, since at least Bennis (1965), has made the claim that bureaucracy and competitive markets and/or ... -
A Two-Factor Cointegrated Commodity Price Model with an Application to Spread Option Pricing
(Elsevier/Science Direct, 2017-01-17)In this paper, we propose an easy-to-use yet comprehensive model for a system of cointegrated commodity prices. While retaining the exponential affine structure of previous approaches, our model allows for an arbitrary ... -
Unanimous rules in the laboratory
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Western accounting reforms and accountability in wealth redistribution in patronage-based Nigerian society
(Emerald, 2017-07-06)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the claim that Western accounting reforms, in particular the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs) would enhance transparency and ... -
Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply
(2014-01)We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees ...