1Dialysis Department, Federal State Budgetary Institution, Russia 2Department of Gynecology, Federal State Budgetary Institution, Russia 3Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Neonatology; Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Russia 4Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology of the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “North-West State Medical Un...

THE BUDGET GAP: GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE U.S. FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESS, 1962-2011 Kevin Fahey April 19, 2012 The persistent private sector wage gap between men and women is one of the more intractable deficiencies of modem American society. It may be symptomatic of male privilege, a theory that outlines pervasive, ubiquitous discrimination that favors men from birth until death. However, egal...

In this paper, we use optimum control methods to determine optimal budgetary policies for Austria over a five-year horizon. Optimal fiscal policies are calculated using the algorithm OPTCON. Optimal policies are compared to a simulation using extrapolated values of budgetary policy variables in terms of their performance with respect to Austrian macroeconomic targets. Policy tradeoffs between t...

BACKGROUND The return on investment for information technology (IT) has been the subject of much debate throughout the history of management information systems research. Often referred to as the productivity paradox, increased IT investments have not been consistently associated with increased productivity. Understanding individual IT factors that directly contribute to business value should p...

Previous studies have provided contradictory evidence with respect to the e€ect of rigid budgetary controls on slack and other dysfunctional behaviors. One motivation for the current study was to test whether spillover e€ects exist between two alleged dysfunctional consequences of a rigid budgetary control style: budget slack creation and managerial short-term orientation. The data support this...