university autonomy and accountability have been playing such a vital role in all aspects of university governance that their importance cannot be over emphasized. autonomy can be defined as “the right of a group of people to govern itself or to organize its own activities” and being autonomous means “being independent and having the power to make your own decisions”. on the other hand, account...

mohammed, north, and ashton find that decentralization in fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. they surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....

We consider the issues of noise-to-signal estimation, finite sample performance and hypothesis testing for the nonparametric efficiency estimation technique proposed in Cherchye, L., T. Kuosmanen and G.T.Post (2001) 'Nonparametric efficiency estimation in stochastic environments', forthcoming in Operations Research. In addition, we apply the technique for analyzing European banks. 5001-6182 Bus...

This paper develops a novel statistic for firm efficiency called efficiency depth that allows for statistical inference in case of errors-in-variables. We derive statistical tests that require minimal statistical assumptions; neither the sample distribution nor the noise level is required. An empirical illustration for European banks illustrates that – despite the minimal assumptionsthe tests c...

This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It assesses the geographical, Heckscher-Ohlin and institutional determinants of services trade based on the literature for goods trade. Moreover, this paper investigates the importance of a country’s governance of regulation as a source of comparative adva...

introduction in this paper the authors study the relationship between rural good governance approach and sustainability of 50 rural regions at mazandaran province. according to the documentary studies, for good governance it is necessary to achieve sustainable humane development in a realm of an area so that the process of correct and logical relationship between governors and citizenships lead...

A database of individual forecasters' exchange rate predictions is analyzed. We demonstrate that only a small minority can be classed as rational, that most forecasts are inferior to easily available alternatives, and that relatively good performance in one period is not a reliable indicator of relatively good performance in subsequent periods. JEL Classification Number: F31