Abstract The impacts of money in US politics have long been debated. Building on principal-agent models, we test whether and to what degree companies’ political donations lead their favored treatment federal procurement. We expect the impact favoritism vary by strength control principals over bureaucratic agents. compile a comprehensive dataset published contracts registered campaign contributi...

The process of identifying and managing Information Communication Technology (ICT) risks has become a concern challenge for public private organizations. In this context, risk management methodologies within the Brazilian Federal Public Administration organizations have indispensable to help managers these in decision making, especially distribution funds, elaboration policies focused on transp...

52 AI MAGAZINE Government agencies around the world process thousands to millions of forms yearly; some may even process a million forms a day (VertMarkets IT Group 2002). To improve efficiencies and reduce cost, many government agencies use some type of document imaging solution for unstructured information or form-processing solutions to capture structured data (Captiva Software Corporation 2...

We show that 70% of Chinese listed companies are ultimately controlled by government agencies, thereby indicating that state ownership remains widespread in China’s stock markets. Three questions are considered that are related to government control structures and their impact on firm value: (1) how do government agencies maintain their control of listed companies; (2) what are the impacts of d...

We study the strategic interaction between the pricing decisions of a pharmaceutical firm and the reimbursement decisions of a government agency which grants reimbursement rights to patients for whom new drugs are most cost-effective. If the reimbursement decision precedes pricing, the agency only reimburses some patients if the drug's private and public health benefits diverge. This is, there ...

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) is a government institution that has the authority to carry out statistical activities in the form of censuses and surveys, to produce statistical data needed by the government, the private sector and the general public, as a reference in planning, monitoring, and evaluation of development results. Therefore, providing quality statistical data is very decisiv...

This work was supported in part at Computational Logic, Inc., by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA Order 7406. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author(s) and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of Computational Logic, Inc., the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or the U.S. Go...

The Heisenberg quantum mechanical conception of nature is extended and applied to the brain. Strict adherence to the principle of parsimony, and to quantum thinking, produces naturally, on the basis of an overview of brain operation compatible with the information provided by the brain sciences, a uniied description of the physical and mental aspects of nature that can account in principle for ...

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