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Dynamic Private Accounts: A Sustainable Solution to Social Security Insolvency 动态私人账户:社会保障资不抵债的可持续解决方案
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2011-06-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1866427
Sven R. Larson
{"title":"Dynamic Private Accounts: A Sustainable Solution to Social Security Insolvency","authors":"Sven R. Larson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1866427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1866427","url":null,"abstract":"The ability of the Social Security system to support future retirement benefits for all Americans is rapidly withering away. Suggested fixes tend to center in on higher taxes or cuts in benefits. Both have been tried and neither has worked. Retirement security can only be secured when Social Security is fully privatized. A privatization plan requires a slow, continuous transition from today's all-government model to one based entirely on private accounts. This paper explains how that transition can take place without jeopardizing the benefits of current enrollees.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127819283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England 地方政府激励机制:来自英国综合绩效评估的理论与证据
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2011-05-31 DOI: 10.1257/POL.5.3.254
Ben Lockwood, F. Porcelli
{"title":"Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England","authors":"Ben Lockwood, F. Porcelli","doi":"10.1257/POL.5.3.254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/POL.5.3.254","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency of service provision. We test these predictions using a difference in difference approach, using Welsh local authorities as a control group, exploiting the fact that local authorities in Wales were not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and efficiency, using Best Value Performance Indicators. We estimate that CPA increased the effective band D council tax rate in England relative to Wales by 4%, and increased our index of service quality output also by about 4%, but had no significant effect on our efficiency indices. There is evidence of heterogeneous effects of CPA on efficiency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on less efficient councils, and the ‘harder test’ from 2005-8 having a much bigger effect.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"862 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127454428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 38
What Drives Fiscal Transparency? Evidence from Provincial Governments in China 是什么推动了财政透明度?来自中国省级政府的证据
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2011-04-12 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1807767
Liang Ma, Jiannan Wu
{"title":"What Drives Fiscal Transparency? Evidence from Provincial Governments in China","authors":"Liang Ma, Jiannan Wu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1807767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1807767","url":null,"abstract":"What drives fiscal transparency? Using a unique dataset we empirically examine the determinants of fiscal transparency of provincial governments in China. We propose an integrated framework to explain the variation in fiscal transparency, in which external demand and pressure, fiscal performance, government resources and capacity, as well as top leaders’ attributes are argued to play important roles. Fiscal transparency is measured by governments’ responses to open fiscal information requests of citizens and their information availability and completeness. Our findings show that economic openness, marketization, institutional capacity, and attributes of local leaders (e.g., tenure) are key drivers of fiscal transparency, and their effects on responsiveness and information completeness are slightly different. We compare our findings with research results on other countries, and theoretical and policy implications are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131066445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 26
Regional Economic Integration and Developing Countries: The Example of South African Regional Integration - SADC 区域经济一体化与发展中国家:以南非区域一体化为例
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2011-04-06 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2232667
Ljubo Jurčić, Vlatka Bilas, Sanja Franc
{"title":"Regional Economic Integration and Developing Countries: The Example of South African Regional Integration - SADC","authors":"Ljubo Jurčić, Vlatka Bilas, Sanja Franc","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2232667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2232667","url":null,"abstract":"Economic integrations among developing countries are different from the ones among more developed countries because of its aims, namely fostering economic development, industrialization and decreasing poverty. In fact, for developing countries regional integration can represent an opportunity for integrating into the global economy by minimizing market fragmentation costs. Regionalism in Africa was led by public sector organizations and it was done without the public support and the support of private sector, thus, failing to produce positive consequences. New wave of regionalism is moving away from the described approach and accentuates political integration in which progressive level of integration is not considered until all conditions were fulfilled. The paper analyses characteristics, problems and future perspectives of regional integration process among developing countries on the example of African regional integration Southern African Development Community (SADC).","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134231955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China 非民主国家的地方选举会增加问责制吗?来自中国农村的证据
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2011-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W16948
Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian
{"title":"Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China","authors":"Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian","doi":"10.3386/W16948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W16948","url":null,"abstract":"We use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. We develop a simple model to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, taking into account that there is an autocratic upper government. We exploit variation in the timing of the top-down introduction of elections across villages to estimate the causal effects of elections and find that elections affected policy outcomes in a way that is consistent with the predicted effects of increased local leader accountability.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124731444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 82
Management Practices and State Bond Ratings 管理实践和国家债券评级
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2010-12-02 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5850.2010.00968.x
Skip Krueger, Robert W. Walker
{"title":"Management Practices and State Bond Ratings","authors":"Skip Krueger, Robert W. Walker","doi":"10.1111/j.1540-5850.2010.00968.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5850.2010.00968.x","url":null,"abstract":"One of the central claims of public administration is that management matters for the performance of public entities. Quantifying the impact of organizational management is thus central to the empirical evaluation of this claim. Utilizing novel features of the Government Performance Project (GPP), we assess the impact of state-level management practices on the credit quality of US states. The central challenge - that both the GPP data and bond ratings take the form of ordinal grades - suggests a common solution utilizing multiple indicators of a latent construct (management capacity and credit quality) with appropriate measurement models. After describing the characteristics of the measurement approach, we derive management capacity scores from the GPP data and credit quality scores using bond ratings from the three rating agencies. These derived scores then allow us to test linkages between credit quality of the US states and broad aspects of their relative management capacity. On the whole, we show that financial management capacity influences credit quality, while the evidence is less clear that other forms of management capacity matter.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122201301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 18
Arbitration: Between Law and Equity? XIV World Conference: International Association of Procedural Law National Report − Hungary 仲裁:法律与衡平法之间?第十四届世界会议:国际程序法协会国家报告-匈牙利
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2010-11-10 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2298526
V. Harsági
{"title":"Arbitration: Between Law and Equity? XIV World Conference: International Association of Procedural Law National Report − Hungary","authors":"V. Harsági","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2298526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2298526","url":null,"abstract":"Arbitration in Hungary - National report - XIV World Congress of IAPL.At the field of arbitration a significant change in this situation occurred in 1988 in Hungary, when, within a narrow circle, the Act on Business Associations rendered arbitration possible again. In the decade following the political transformation, possibilities of recourse to arbitral tribunals became continuously extended. The present regulation is contained in Act LXXI of 1994 on Arbitration (Arbitration Act), which was created on the basis of the UNCITRAL Model Law of 1985. The study deals with the following issues: attractiveness and flexibility of arbitration, their impartiality and independence, the judicial support, measures to prevent court proceedings inconsistent with arbitration agreement, control of awards, recognition etc.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124946593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Evaluating the Impact of Regional Development Programs 评估区域发展计划的影响
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2010-08-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3307423
P. Winters, Susana Sitja Rubio
{"title":"Evaluating the Impact of Regional Development Programs","authors":"P. Winters, Susana Sitja Rubio","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3307423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3307423","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this guideline is to discuss the objectives and approaches of regional (subnational) development programs in order to provide guidance on issues related to evaluating the impact of these programs. Regional development programs are designed to improve the income-generating capacity of, and reduce poverty in, a focus region within a country. The primary and unique characteristics of these programs lie in promoting a broad range of productive activities in a predefined region. To do this, regional development programs often need to address the institutional structure under which decisions are made as well as how economic resources should flow from the center to the local level. As such, the programs involve both productive and institutional transformation. Evaluating the impact of regional development programs is complicated by the need to assess both the impact of productive investment as well as the institutional transformation. As with all impact evaluations, evaluating regional development programs is thus much more likely to be successful if planned along with the design of the program. This guideline provides a summary of the options for setting up evaluations of regional development programs, while carefully considering the need to go beyond evaluating the impact on beneficiaries alone","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129061151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Pulling the Same Way? A Multi-Perspectivist Study of Crisis Cooperation in Government 同样的拉动方式?政府危机合作的多视角研究
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2010-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2010.00605.x
Ann Ödlund
{"title":"Pulling the Same Way? A Multi-Perspectivist Study of Crisis Cooperation in Government","authors":"Ann Ödlund","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-5973.2010.00605.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2010.00605.x","url":null,"abstract":"After crises have occurred, limitations in crisis management capacity often cause surprise and frustration. An explanation that frequently recurs in evaluations is a lack of efficient cooperation between organizations. Even though crisis cooperation is anticipated and planned for, it seems to create several problems. How is cooperation possible between organizations with different mandates, cultures and professions? This paper aims to identify factors that strengthen or hamper cooperation in crisis management between Swedish government agencies. A rationalist organizational and a social psychological perspective are applied, respectively, to demonstrate the interdependence of organizational context and human behaviour. One conclusion is that long-term organizing and exercises could help authorities to identify strengths and weaknesses such as differences in regulations and culture. If carefully addressed and considered, such insights could improve the effectiveness of cooperation during crises.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126382992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 58
Coping with Katrina: Assessing Crisis Management Behaviours in the Big One 应对卡特里娜:评估大飓风中的危机管理行为
ERN: Structure Pub Date : 2010-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00597.x
Amanda M. Olejarski, James L. Garnett
{"title":"Coping with Katrina: Assessing Crisis Management Behaviours in the Big One","authors":"Amanda M. Olejarski, James L. Garnett","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00597.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00597.x","url":null,"abstract":"Hurricane Katrina continues to capture attention and influence scholarship including official reports that focus more on event chronologies than on conceptual patterns. Our paper explores conceptual patterns crisis management behaviour, drawing upon Lalonde's (2004) archetypes of crisis managers as collectivists, integrators, and reactives. We add a paralytics archetype for our analysis. Key findings include an imbalance between counterproductive and constructive archetypes. Reactive and paralytic crisis manager behaviours were over‐represented, significantly contributing to conflict, communication failures, and the systemic failure of governments. Collectivist and integrator archetypes were badly under‐represented, limiting intergovernmental relations, cooperation, and communication embedded in these behaviour types. Crisis management performance with future crises would benefit from a systematic assessment of crisis management styles and behaviours.","PeriodicalId":447069,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Structure","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122876356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 17
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