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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Conflict of Interest"”.
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Conflict of Interest and Corruption in the States
This dissertation creates a typology of conflict of interest laws, rules and policies implemented and practiced in all 50 state legislatures. The research identifies characteristics of conflict of interest regimes and suggests relationships between these characteristics and public corruption. If …
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Three Essays on Incentive Problems of Parties with Potential Conflict of Interest
I study the impact of different incentives on strategic decisions of parties that have the option of cooperating with each other. Incentive problems are well studied in various contexts, such as supply chain management and healthcare operations management. However, in the fast-changing business …
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Legislative ethics regulation in the American states : explaining conflict of interest legislation, 1954-1996
This dissertation examines the regulation of conflicts of interest involving state legislators through the passage of ethics laws during the period from 1954-1996. The aim is to explain why legislators, who are notoriously loathe to regulate their own ethics, enacted a range of ethics laws during …
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From bench to bedside : impact of conflict-of-interest restrictions at academic medical centers on clinical trials
Successful translation of scientific discovery into new medicines is most successful with collaboration between academics - scientists and physicians - and industry. In recent years, there has been increasing concern at academic medical centers about the impact of relationships with industry on …
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The Crown as fiduciary and the conflict of interest inherent in its use of Indian lands for public purposes.
… adhering to the Crown when it accepts surrenders of reserve lands for its own purposes. It begins with an analysis of the theoretical basis of the fiduciary relationship in private law, concluding that such a relationship arises whenever a person acquires a power or property subject to the …
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The Ethical Challenge of Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare
<p>Conflicts of interest are prevalent across all walks of society, and unfortunately, the healthcare industry is not immune to these impediments. Conflicts of interest arise when the objective of upholding a patients’ interest collide with the physicians’ secondary goals and is mostly but not …
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Challenges to E-Conveyancing in Kenya: Case Study of the Ministry of Lands
… Conveyancing in Kenya with a case study of the Ministry of Lands in Kenya. The objective of the study was to find out why despite several attempts e-conveyancing has not been successfully implemented in Kenya, and whether the prevailing Legal Framework enables e-conveyancing in Kenya. The …
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An Experimental Investigation of 2-Person Bargaining
… in 2-person bargaining. The role and the type of information is examined in situations where players bargain over chips, and in others where they negotiate over how to divide lottery tickets with chips as prizes. The information about the monetary values is manipulated, and its effect on the …
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CMBS structure and governance : an empirical analysis of security design and the role of the special servicer
… in 1998 are anticipated to double 1997 levels of approximately $44 billion. At this point in the development of the market, most participants have a good understanding of the basic investment characteristics of commercial mortgage-backed securities. However, as the CMBS market continues to …
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Optimal Contracts for Legal Services
… contracts for legal services in the presence of asymmetric information. The lawyer-client relationship examined is an application of the general principal-agent problem. The agent (lawyer) takes an action that, together with the realization of a random variable (merit), determines the outcome …
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Essays on Financial Market Structure
… in modern financial markets. First, I study conflict of interest in the relation between brokers and investors. Second, I study Exchange Traded Funds, and their impact on their constituent assets. Finally, I study crowdfunding as a means for entrepreneurs to resolve uncertainty regarding …
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Essays in political economics and information acquisition
This thesis consists of three chapters respectively on optimal contracts to incentivize information acquisition, strategic voting, and conflict of interest. The first chapter, joint work with A. Clark, studies a principal-agent problem with limited-liability where an agent is hired to acquire …
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Audit committee effectiveness in Victorian local government
The tenets of local government are based on strong financial probity, adherence to independence principles to avoid conflict of interest and conformance to ethical principles. This thesis addresses the issue of possible corruption and misconduct in local government, with particular reference to the …
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Shared Governance in the British Columbia Post-Secondary Education System: The Boards' Role in Decision-Making
In 1995, the membership of governing boards in colleges in British Columbia changed from lay persons appointed by the provincial government. The new boards consisted of fewer lay appointees with the addition of elected faculty, staff, and students, together with the college presidents and education …
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The taxation of income and expenditure of trusts in South Africa
… a trustee to manage in secret in order to avoid conflict of interest. Businesses employ trusts to protect the interests of debenture holders, to manage pension funds and to create employee share purchase and management incentive schemes. Parents set up trusts to preserve funds for their children, …
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The characterisation of synoptic circulation patterns in Saldanha Bay
Saldanha Bay, on the west coast of South Africa, is the only deep water port between Cape Town and Walvis Bay. It is separated into two smaller bays, Small Bay and Big Bay, by an iron-ore jetty built in 1975. With its sheltered environment it is an ideal site for the development of a mariculture …
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Evolution of energy storage traits in symbiotic rhizobia
… nitrogen-fixing rhizobia involves an inherent conflict-of-interest over how rhizobia allocate the resources they receive from the host plant. In theory, rhizobia could enhance their future fitness by diverting resources from nitrogen-fixation into storage compounds like polyhydroxybutyrate …
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Privacey in Cyberspace: Federal Law, Online Commerce, Citizens, and rights in Conflict with the Digital Age
<p>This thesis examines the conflict of interest between a U.S. citizen’s right to privacy on the Internet, as defined by the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights and Supreme Court rulings, and the federal government’s expressed need to intrude, in some cases, when a felony or threat to law and …
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A study on the effects of peer review in knowledge production
… comments informally. While there has been a lot of research on the formal editorial peer review process in other fields, less is known about its effects in economics knowledge production. Economic decision-makers rely on data from government agencies, private firms, and peer-reviewed and …
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Commercializing university biomedical ideas : problems and opportunities
The level of entrepreneurship and commercialization of inventions at universities in the United States varies widely. This study attempts to uncover the factors that may explain the differences in the attitude toward entrepreneurship and commercialization found at academic institutions. To this end …
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