Manuscript typeEmpirical Research Question/IssueThis study investigates the interplay between country-level governance quality and the capital structure choice at the firm level in Brazil and Chile. We examine the association ...

E-government requires the intensive use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) in public institutions to deliver services to citizens efficiently and effectively. E-government allows the transformation of the ...

The word governance is not new. It goes through different periods of history and takes specific meanings in certain times and countries. Currently, the concept of governance can be defined as institutional procedures of ...

Water is one of the most demanded resources in rural areas of developing countries. Its management and governance need knowledge transfers and interactions among several actors at different administrative levels, starting ...

One of the cornerstones of the development of the European Union is the principle of free movement within the EU. The EU has created an unprecedented area in which not just capital, goods and services but also people ...

Institutional crises might affect the credibility of companies but also a specific sector. This study illustrates that organizations purposively engage in multiple partnerships, across different institutional levels, and ...

Manuscript TypeConceptual and empirical. Research Question/IssueMany studies of firm-level corporate governance rely on aggregate indices to measure underlying, unobserved governance. But we are not confident that we know ...

This paper examines whether characteristics of government transfers that do not affect actual levels of redistribution affect support for such transfers. We employ survey experiments in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Turkey ...