Sökning: "fiscal performance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden fiscal performance.
1. Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained chapters that address issues of how organizations and institutions should be designed in order to provide adequate incentives and enable coordination. The first essay uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two reasons why coordination problems are common when public sector organizations share responsibilities: the incentives to coordinate resource allocation and the difficulties of measuring performance. LÄS MER
2. Performance Management and Rationalityin Public Sector Organisations
Sammanfattning : Abstract and Keywords The thesis concerns different conceptions of rationality and their implications for organisations, especially in the public sector. The focus is on performance management (as widely defined) within public sector organisations as a subject for exploring these issues. LÄS MER
3. Performance Management, Rationality and Participation in Public Sector Organisation
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis critically examines the role of performance management in public sector organisations. In particular, it explores how performance management relates to different concepts of rationality (instrumental, value and communicative), including issues around rationality and power, and the relationship between these concepts and various models of participation and democracy. LÄS MER
4. Institutions and incentives in monetary and fiscal policy
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five independent papers, which are summarized as follows. ”Fiscal Policy when Monetary Policy is Tied to the Mast” analyzes the time inconsistency problem of both exchange rate policy and fiscal policy in a small open economy. The equilibrium under discretion is characterized by inflation and a deficit. LÄS MER
5. Political conflicts over public policy in local governments
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays on different conflicts shaping local government policy. The first essay examines how population aging affects the generosity of public long-term care. Aging may directly affect long-term care policy as the elderly become a more important voter group. LÄS MER