The use of financial incentives in healthcare calls for ethical examination. Michael Sandel's influential work represents such examination and is subject to critical analysis this paper. Sandel focuses on monetary payments persuade patients lose weight, give up smoking etc. but also the much-discussed case giving drug addicts money return their consent be sterilized. He offers two separate obje...

Numerous investigations demonstrate that the problem of corruption in the health sector is enormous and has grave negative consequences for patients. Nevertheless, the problem of corruption in health systems is far from eminent in the international health policy debate. Hutchinson, Balabanova, and McKee have identifed in their Editorial five reasons why the health policy community has been relu...

This paper examines the effects of corruption and government control of the banking system on the sensitivity of commercial lending rates to changes in international financial market conditions. Using a sample of 18 countries located in the Western hemisphere (the “Americas”), we find that most countries’ lending rates are insensitive to changes in international financial market conditions. Onl...

This chapter will examine and discuss the question whether conflicts of interest in the accountancy and auditing profession are conducive to corruption. In undertaking this enquiry, I will first define what a conflict of interest is and under what type of circumstances and conditions it can arise. The types of circumstances and conditions in which a conflict of interest arises will be illustrat...

there are a variety of definitions about social security and threats indicating a lack of consensus on this issue, and not considering the impact of social conditions of different countries. thus, although in a scientific study considering other viewpoints can be useful, in order to be practical, we should indigenously note indigenous conditions and domestic scholar’s comments. based on this id...

In this paper we present a political economy approach in order to explain the degree of financial openness for an economy. In the model, entrepreneurs, who may have good or bad projects, vote for policies, which are proposed by selfish politicians. Two political frictions (ideological adherence and a supermajority requirement) impair political competition and lead to equilibria, where politicia...