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Protecting the organization against risk and the role of financial audit
Bożek, Sylwia; Emerling, Izabela - 2014
In the contemporary economic reality and organization's activities aiming at effectiveness and efficiency of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011785
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Incentives for dishonesty : an experimental study with internal auditors
Balafoutas, Loukas; Czermak, Simon; Eulerich, Marc; … - 2017 - This version: 20 April 2017
This study examines experimentally how dishonest behavior in the form of misreporting others' performance depends on the nature of provided incentives. We conduct a 'lab in the field' experiment with internal auditors during two large conferences in Germany and evaluate their performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639592
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An evaluation of German active labor market policies and its entrepreneurship promotion
Zöllner, Moritz; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2016
This paper reviews the results of studies that investigate the most important active labour market policy (ALMP) measures in Germany. A particular focus is on programs devoted to foster entrepreneurship which can make important contributions to a country's growth and social welfare. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580463
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A Productive Clash of Cultures: Injecting Economics into Leadership Research
Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016
broad set of topics including the foundations of leadership, leader emergence, and leader effectiveness. At the same time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584874
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Communication and decision-making by central bank committees: different strategies, same effectiveness?
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604534
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How should central banks communicate?
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
the diversity of views on the economic outlook that enhance the effectiveness of central bank communication. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604603
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Social value of public information: testing the limits to transparency
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2007
FOMC decisions as well as the future policy path. Second, the effectiveness of communication is found to depend on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604867
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Purdah: on the rationale for central bank silence around policy meetings
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008
Despite substantial differences in monetary policy and communication strategies, many central banks share the practice of purdah, a self-imposed guideline of abstaining from communication around policy meetings or other important events. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604914
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Effective Counterterrorism: What Have We Learned so Far?
van Um, Eric; Pisoiu, Daniela - 2011
adequate evaluations as to its actual success. This paper offers an overview of the counterterrorism effectiveness literature … of causality and proposes a working definition of counterterrorism effectiveness. We find that a main focus of the … literature lies on the impact component of effectiveness, often in the sense of a reduction of terrorist attacks in general or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335421
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2007
notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of … the present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes for the unemployed. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260903