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Tariff Escalation and Preferences in International Fish Production and Trade
(2015)This paper reviews recent literature on the effects of tariff liberalisation on wild caught fish product production structures, development outcomes, and fish stocks. Using the case of canned tuna, the report shows that ... -
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 ...