scholarly journals Voting And Lottery Technologies: A Potential Jackpot? An Economic Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cornachione Kula
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Transaction Processing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voting System ◽  
On Line ◽  
High Level ◽  
Transaction Processing Systems

Voting irregularities and recount mechanisms used in Florida during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election have brought calls for re-vamped voting technologies and procedures. Many in both the public and private sectors have focused on the Internet as a possible underlying technology that could provide the ease, accuracy, and reliability a twenty-first century voting system should possess. Apart from the difficulties inherent in building an Internet based system from scratch, this solution ignores existing, proven technology, already in use by a majority of states, which could be adapted to provide a cost effective voting system with many desirable characteristics. The technology: computerized, on-line lottery systems. Inherently, these lotteries are transaction processing systems, which is what a voting system, at its base, is. Lottery systems are state based, handle vast quantities of transactions reliably, operate under an extremely high level of scrutiny, and are familiar to millions of Americans. This paper examines a lottery technology based voting system from several perspectives and develops an economic welfare analysis of a lottery technology based voting system.

scholarly journals High-involvement management practices, job control, and employee well-being in the public and private sectors. Evidence from Finland

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-486
Author(s):  
Laura Peutere ◽  
Antti Saloniemi ◽  
Simo Aho ◽  
Jouko Nätti ◽  
Tapio Nummi
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Control ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Level ◽  
High Involvement Management

The connection between high-involvement management (HIM), entailing heavy employee involvement, and employee well-being is a controversial and widely discussed topic. Clarifying how job satisfaction and stress are connected to HIM and job control (the control employees have over their work), this study is based on data from two Finnish sources: an employer survey investigating the extent of HIM within an organisation, and employee assessments of job control, stress and job satisfaction. Logistic regression models were used as the study method. In contrast to previous Finnish studies, our findings show that HIM seems hardly to benefit employee well-being. Especially in the public sector, the correlation between extensive HIM and employee well-being turned out to be negative. However, HIM in the private sector was positively related to job satisfaction. As expected, a high level of job control was regularly associated with greater well-being.

Thirty years after Jensen’s prediction: Is private equity a superior form of ownership?

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Morris ◽  
Ludovic Phalippou
Keyword(s):  
Private Equity ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Harvard Business Review ◽  
Corporate Ownership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Equity Model ◽  
High Level ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Positive Results

Abstract Almost exactly 30 years ago, a famous article by Michael Jensen in the Harvard Business Review predicted that private equity would ‘eclipse’ the public corporation because it was a superior form of corporate ownership. Trends since 1989 seem to bear out Jensen’s prediction. Much time and energy has gone into studying whether the private equity model does see companies being run better for investors and society. Progress has been made and most studies find positive results. But samples are usually relatively small. And the relative complexity of private equity transactions, combined with a high level of privacy, makes it hard to find financial statements that are tractable enough for meaningful analysis. After 30 years of research, we argue that a conclusive answer to the question remains further away than might seem to be the case. In the meantime, the appropriate regulatory response involves narrowing the ‘regulatory gap’ between public and private markets.

scholarly journals AN EXPLORATION INTO THE CREATION OF ‘PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES’ IN TORONTO, ONTARIO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Ricker
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Privately Owned

An exploratory research investigation into the creation of ‘privately owned publicly accessible spaces’ (POPS) in Toronto, Ontario and a critical review of the process used to secure these spaces and the subsequent agreements made. This paper seeks to answer if land use planners are able to better mediate the use of POPS as a means of providing open space to communities in high-density areas. This report includes the timeline illustrating the development of Toronto’s POPS program followed by a discussion on Toronto’s increase growth and development and the suitability of POPS as a contributing strategy for diminishing new park and open space assets and a high level breakdown of the legal mechanisms currently in place to help facilitate new POP spaces. Interviews with individuals from both the public and private sectors were conducted, which produced a generalized model outlining how POPS in Toronto are secured.

scholarly journals Social response and spatial mobility change due to COVID-19 pandemic in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-396
Author(s):  
Joanna Stępień ◽  
Tomasz Michalski ◽  
Jakub Grabowski ◽  
Przemysław Waszak ◽  
Maja Grabkowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
The Public ◽  
On Line ◽  
Line Survey ◽  
High Level ◽  
Public Health Strategies

As global communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increasing emphasis on public health strategies, like implementation of ‘lockdowns’, closure of educational institutions and offices, cancellation of events, and enforcement of social distancing measures to slow the rate of transmission. The main objective of this article is to find out how the public health interventions and national lockdown affected people’s perception and attitudes to limited mobility and how people reacted by their spatial mobility behaviours in new reality of the first weeks of COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. The study is based on the on-line survey research conducted among Polish residents supplemented by the analysis of data on changes in the spatial mobility based on Google dataset. The obtained results highlight high level of self-discipline in the population in response to restrictions and social distancing obligations, and as a result significantly lower spatial mobility level, before the restrictions began to be lifted. The size of the respondents’ place of residence had the greatest impact on changes in spatial mobility.

Productivity Growth Assessment of Public and Private Sector General Insurance Companies in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Abhijit Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Insurance ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
High Level ◽  
Growth Assessment

The researcher in this paper has looked into the general insurance industry in India opening up of the sector to the private players in 2000. The objective of the study is to determine the total factor productivity growth in the general insurance industry in India. The study is based on the analysis of data covering twelve general insurers (including four from the public sector) for the period 2004-05 to 2011-12. For the purpose of growth assessment, Malmquist Index is computed that is composed of two components: Technical progress and technological progress. From the study, it is observed that a high level of inconsistency exists in the industry. The overall growth during the study period has been minimal. The technological change shows a negative growth in the case of all the insurers. Whatever growth is observed is due to the efficiency improvement, thereby implying movement towards the frontier.

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