background informal payments for health care, which are common in many countries, can have negative effects on health care access, equity and health status as they lead people to forgo or delay seeking care, or to sell assets to pay for care. many countries are putting reforms in place with the aim of reducing informal payments. in order to be successful, such policies should be informed by the...

This supplement engages some of the leading health economists in Europe to analyze how the policies in their respective health-care systems to control and influence pharmaceutical spending are likely to influence the overall performance of their systems, with respect to both cost control and the production of population health. Six countries were selected to provide a representative mix of publ...

Despite widespread calls for reforms of the EU budgetary procedure, the European Convention and, even more importantly, the Intergovernmental Conference seem to have generated only minor institutional adjustments. This paper aims to explore the lack of institutional change in the budgetary field. On the basis of a thorough analysis of the current budgetary procedure and a detailed assessment of...

Budget transparency is an instrumental factor for better understanding the concept of budget within a democratic context. International codes for best governance practices in public management have appointed the internet as a communication media with the potential to provide this information in a timely and transparent manner to the several players in the society, and open government data has a...

informal payments to health care providers have been reported in many african, asian and european countries. this study aimed to investigate different aspects of these payments that are also known as under-the-table payments in iran.this is an in-depth interview-based qualitative study conducted on 12 purposively chosen clinical specialists. the interviewees answered 9 questions including the o...

In the contingency literature on the behavioral and organizational e€ects of budgeting, use of the Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) technique is prevalent. This technique is used to test contingency hypotheses that predict interaction e€ects between budgetary and contextual variables. This paper critically evaluates the application of this technique in budgetary research over the last two de...

This article investigates changes within national budget by examining actors’ behavioral predilections and the institutional constraints under which they operate. The article presents three theoretical propositions about the influence of attention and institutions on all magnitudes of programmatic budget changes ranging from large cuts to massive expansions. Using quantile regression, the autho...