The concept of corporate reputation reflects the standing of a firm based on the public perception. Firms with high corporate reputation are better able to sustain superior performance. During the financial crisis, the corporate reputation of financial institutions has decreased resulting in a bad perception of the financial sector by the public. However, improving their corporate reputation is...

The concept of corporate reputation reflects the standing of a firm based on the public perception. Firms with high corporate reputation are better able to sustain superior performance. During the financial crisis, the corporate reputation of financial institutions has decreased resulting in a bad perception of the financial sector by the public. However, improving their corporate reputation is...

We present a theoretical model of the provision of a durable public good over an in…nite horizion. In each period, there is a societal endowment of which each of  districts owns a share. This endowment can either be invested in the public good or consumed. We characterize the planner’s optimal solution and time path of investment and consumption. We then consider alternative political mechanis...

Michalis Drouvelis and Julian C. Jamison Abstract: The authors extend the standard public goods game in a variety of ways, in particular by allowing for endogenous preference over institutions and by studying the relationship between individual types, their preferences, and later behavior within the various institutional environments. They collect individual data on a variety of demographic fac...

Serving as lender of last resort to countries experiencing unsustainable levels of public debt, international financial institutions have attracted intense controversy over the past decades, exemplified most recently by the popular discontent expressed in Eurozone countries following several rounds of austerity measures. In exchange for access to financial assistance, borrowing countries must s...

Current challenges in Electronic Government initiatives include performance management, effective and efficient means of sharing information between different stakeholders e.g. government departments in order to improve the quality of service delivery to the citizens. To address these challenges, this paper addresses an application domain of workflow systems in public institutions and proposes ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 2 Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. 3 Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. 4 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. 5 Departments of Nutrition and Epidem...

BACKGROUND Federal regulations in the United States have shaped Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to focus on protecting individual human subjects. Health services research studies focusing on healthcare institutions such as hospitals or clinics do not have individual human subjects. Since U.S. federal regulations are silent on what type of review, if any, these studies require, different IRBs...