Social, Economic, and Political Perspectives on Public Health Policy-Making

Gholipour, Rahmatollah; Rouzbehani, Khadijeh

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The influence of transparency on budget forecast deviations in municipal governments

Ríos

Guillamón

Benito

et al. 2018

Journal of Forecasting

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This paper analyzes the impact of transparency on fiscal performance. Our sample considers the 100 largest Spanish municipalities for the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2014. The results show that the level of municipal transparency influences budget forecast deviations in tax revenues and current expenditures. On the one hand, less transparent municipalities overestimate their revenues, allowing them to provide more public services without an immediate increase in taxes. On the other, these local governments, which are aware of the overestimation of their revenues, may spend less than they budgeted. More transparent municipalities, meanwhile, seem to be more prudent in their revenue estimations, since they underestimate their revenues, meaning they can spend more than projected. Our results also show that the behavior of politicians is influenced by the phase of the electoral cycle in which they find themselves, with politicians overestimating expenditures in the year before election.

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The influence of transparency on budget forecast deviations in municipal governments

Ríos

Guillamón

Benito

et al. 2018

Journal of Forecasting

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Problem-structuring methods: collaborative action with an application to the healthcare sector in Iran

Rouzbehani

2016

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

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Generosity in Healthcare Policy Under the Obama Administration

Rouzbehani

2021

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition

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The landmark United States healthcare reform law—the Affordable Care Act—provides an opportunity to study the dynamics in healthcare sector.This article posits that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) constitutes an effective public policy alternative that remedies some of the previous problems which existed in America's healthcare system. The ACA seeks to reform the private insurance market, expand Medicaid to the working poor and to change the way medical decisions are made in end-of-life decisions. The central hypothesis of this paper is that the ACA is an improved alternative to the previous policy regime on healthcare in the United States. This hypothesis is unambiguously supported by the rational resource allocation model together with a host of other heuristic approaches. Claims made in this paper also relied on findings of empirical studies, reports, and evaluative studies on the performance of the ACA since its enactment into national legislation under the Obama administration.

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Social, Economic, and Political Perspectives on Public Health Policy-Making

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The influence of transparency on budget forecast deviations in municipal governments

The influence of transparency on budget forecast deviations in municipal governments

Problem-structuring methods: collaborative action with an application to the healthcare sector in Iran

Generosity in Healthcare Policy Under the Obama Administration

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