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作者：Bernard, Paul; Boucher, Guillaume
作者单位：Universite de Montreal
摘要：Are the rather generous welfare regimes found in most European countries sustainable; that is, are they competitive in a globalizing economy? Or will they, on the contrary, be crowded out by the more austere and less expensive regimes generally found in liberal Anglo-Saxon countries? We first discuss this issue conceptually, focusing on the notions of institutional competitiveness, social investment, and short-term and long-term productivity. We then briefly present the results of an empirical...
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作者：Decker, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：This paper considers the level of, and changes in, optimal noncompliance penalties under the following conditions: (i) where the regulator responsible for setting policy parameters, Such as a penalty, is different from (and thus may have a different objective from) the regulator responsible for enforcing existing regulations; and (ii) where enforcement behavior changes from one in which enforcers are unresponsive to overtures on the part of firms to increase compliance to one in which enforcer...
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作者：Thelen, Kathleen
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：The German vocational training system has played a central role in sustaining the competitive strength of German manufacturing. This article provides an analysis of contemporary developments in this system to assess its likely future trajectory. I begin by underscoring the differences and similarities of the German system to alternative arrangements that have emerged in other countries. I then turn to recent trends in Germany that have caused concern among policy-makers about the continued str...
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作者：Campbell, John L.; Pedersen, Ove K.
作者单位：Dartmouth College; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Despite high taxes, a large welfare state, and much economic regulation, Denmark competes successfully against other advanced capitalist economies. Denmark's success is based in large part on its institutional competitiveness - its capacity to achieve socioeconomic success as a result of the competitive advantages that firms derive from operating within a particular set of institutions. The institutional basis for successfully coordinating labor markets and vocational training programs are exa...
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作者：Marcussen, Martin; Kaspersen, Lars Bo
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Only dead institutions do not change and only rarely do institutions change by themselves. To maintain performing institutions takes institutional entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and who possess the capacity and the talent to innovate. A regulation discourse, in contrast to a marketization discourse, would not picture the relationship between globalization and institutional change as a deterministic one. Rather, it would expect that all kinds of actors play a large number of differ...
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作者：Mizrahi, Shlomo; Bar, Shani
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：This article explores the mechanisms through which institutional corruption and engagement in corruption at the societal level may be normalized to the extent that citizens adopt an instrumental approach to corruption. Such an approach means that the public accepts corrupt practices and sees them as reasonable, as long as they achieve results that they see as beneficial. We develop a theoretical framework that includes institutional and behavioral independent variables. We then test our resear...
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作者：Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Malandrino, Anna; Di Mascio, Fabrizio
作者单位：University of Naples L'Orientale; University of Turin
摘要：This paper examines whether e-procurement adoption is associated with procedural competition and transparency, two core components of procurement integrity. Using award-level microdata for Italian regional contracting authorities (2019-2023), we analyze a period preceding the legal obligation of full-cycle digital procurement, when the use of e-procurement tools remained discretionary across authorities. We construct three procedure-level indicators-notice-to-deadline length, single bidding, a...
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作者：Ford, Cristie
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness-honesty, competence, and reliability-rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation. The article situates this conception of regulatory trustworthiness within liberal democratic rule-of-law commitments to equal respect, fairness, and ac...
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作者：Diaz, Jana Gomez; Pikos, Anna; Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg; Guaschino, Edoardo
作者单位：University of Konstanz; Kozminski University; University of Lausanne; University of Geneva
摘要：This article investigates the formation of stakeholders' trust in regulatory agencies, as the extent to which contact frequency and sentiment of media coverage are related to different types of stakeholders' trust. Based upon original survey data from diverse stakeholders, and media coverage from 2015 to 2020 of agencies in the food safety, financial regulation, and data protection sectors across seven countries, the analysis suggests that media coverage rather than contact frequency is import...
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作者：Fazekas, Mihaly; Nishchal, Shrey; Soreide, Tina
作者单位：Western Norway University of Applied Sciences; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：Theory and case studies suggest that emergencies and disasters increase corruption, especially in public procurement, hampering relief and reconstruction efforts. Despite a growing interest in the topic, including in research, there is still little systematic evidence about these effects, their structure and trajectories. We set out to investigate the medium-term impact of disasters on corruption risks, using large-scale administrative data on public tenders in Italy from 2007 to 2020, combine...
