Journal articles on the topic 'Free payments'

The article, based on the analysis of scientific views of scientists and current legislation of Ukraine, provides a description of additional elements of mandatory payments related to inheritance and gifts, including: tax benefits, as well as installments or deferrals in the payment of research payments. It is substantiated that the absence of the institution of installments (deferrals) in the payment of the above tax restricts the rights of low-income persons, as it actually limits the right to receive property free of charge in the form of inheritance or gift.

Dividend payment decision is an essential policy of companies to provide investors’ expectation of investment returns. This research is aimed to prove the catering theory of dividend and financial characteristics affecting corporate decisions in dividend payments. The study was conducted on a manufacturing company published on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Analyzing the prediction of catering theory and financial analysis of companies in making dividend payments is conducted using the logistic regression method. This research is a quantitative research and moreover manufacturing companies as research sample were used from 2014 to 2018. Financial statements were obtained from the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The result of this study indicated that investors’ demand has positive effect on dividend payment decisions. Hence, companies consider catering in dividend payment decisions. While corporate financial characteristics such as free cash flow have positive effect on dividend payment decisions, profitability has no influence on dividend payment decisions and moreover, leverage has a negative influence on dividend payment decisions. Keywords: Catering Theory, Investor Demand, Free Cash Flow, Profitability, Leverage

Direct, payment-by-car for tolling may still be some years away, but linking apps to existing free-flow systems is helping to streamline payments, lowering costs and enhancing customer experience and satisfaction.

Background: Informal payments are unauthorised ‘unregistered’ out-of-pocket payments, outside the official payment system, for purchase or service meant to be covered/provided by the healthcare system. This study attempts to measure and report the extent and magnitude of informal payments based on the entitlements in Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) in the Indian context. Methods: A cross-sectional study using convenience sampling and a semi-structured interview schedule was conducted among 281 participants in 2016 in 26 JSSK-notifying health facilities from all five divisions of Chhattisgarh. Pregnant women and women who delivered in the previous year, and provided informed consent, were included. After reviewing various definitions, informal payment was operationally defined in the context of JSSK for India as ‘payments made in cash or kind, unregistered or non-reimbursed, made by/on behalf of the beneficiary or someone related thereof, for free and cashless entitlements in a JSSK-listed health facility, to an individual or institutional healthcare provider/staff who provides/arranges for provision of the service’. Results: Of 281 participants, 91.8 per cent reported informal payments across all JSSK entitlements categories. A relative majority of these payments was made at the district hospital (37%), ranging from ₹2 to ₹6,500 (US$0.03–101). Investigations incurred the greatest median amount of informal payments, at, ₹455 (US$7). Informal payments ranged between three and seven times higher than the JSSK price cap in Chhattisgarh. No significant association was found between participant characteristics and informal payments. Conclusion: Further research is required to understand the magnitude and motivation of informal payments made in programmes like JSSK.

Toll roads provide an alternative route to public roads, expediting travel through a network that requires fee payments. Recently, Asia introduced a radio toll payment system to alleviate congestion at toll gates. A more efficient toll payment system is needed. RFID stickers emerge as a cost-effective alternative. Their use is simple—affix them to the vehicle's front for scanning by RFID readers at SLFF toll gates. SLFF utilizes RFID for toll payments, aiming to embody sustainable transport implementation. The research method employed is quantitative, with field survey data collection. Findings reveal that Gate 3 stands out with a brief service time (0.6 seconds), lower fuel costs (366,171 Rupiah), and lower emission levels (CO gas 124%, HC gas 39094.7 ppm) compared to Gate 2. Gate 3's efficiency creates a superior user experience and potential significant fuel cost savings, making it a more efficient and sustainable choice for implementing the Single Lane Free Flow (SLFF) toll payment system.

Agents are asked to rank two objects in a setting where effort is costly and agents differ in quality (which is the probability that they can identify the correct, ground truth, ranking). We study simple output-agreement mechanisms that pay an agent in the case she agrees with the report of another, and potentially penalizes for disagreement through a negative payment. Assuming access to a quality oracle, able to determine whether an agent's quality is above a given threshold, we design a payment scheme that aligns incentives so that agents whose quality is above this threshold participate and invest effort. Precluding negative payments leads the expected cost of this quality-oracle mechanism to increase by a factor of 2 to 5 relative to allowing both positive and negative payments. Dropping the assumption about access to a quality oracle, we further show that negative payments can be used to make agents with quality lower than the quality threshold choose to not to participate, while those above continue to participate and invest effort. Through the appropriate choice of payments, any design threshold can be achieved. This self-selection mechanism has the same expected cost as the cost-minimal quality-oracle mechanism, and thus when using the self-selection mechanism, perfect screening comes for free.

AbstractInformal payments for health services are widespread in many transition economies in post-communist Europe and the former Soviet Union. Their existence complements and in some cases significantly contributes to the financing of their health systems. It has been suggested that they are the legacy of planned socialist economies and a temporary side effect of the transition from a planned to a market economy. This article discusses the findings of the study investigating the extent and nature of the informal payments and evaluates the policy options on offer. It asserts that despite the level of declared support for moderate cost-sharing by different population groups, it is unlikely that any legalised form of co-payment will affect or replace informal payments, as the government uses them to sustain the illusion of ‘free’ health care. The study argues that the utilitarian gain maximisation principle, calling for the greatest collective welfare in communitarian egalitarianism, and the satisfaction of individual preferences in libertarian economics enable the acceptance of informal payments as a viable policy option.

6524 Background: With total and out-of-pocket (OOP) spending for oral oncolytics rising, there is increased interest in choosing oncology treatments based on their clinical value relative to cost. We sought to determine if OOP spending varied for higher versus lower-value oral oncology drugs reimbursed by commercial insurers. Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of commercial insurer prescription drug claims filed between 2007-2014 for 13 oral oncolytics approved before 2009. We calculated mean monthly OOP payments for each patient. We then categorized oral oncolytics by their overall and progression-free survival benefits for each FDA-approved indication, using evidence from published studies. We assessed the relationship of survival benefit with mean monthly OOP payment, adjusting for demographic and plan characteristics. Results: Our population included 44,109 patients ages 18-65 (mean age = 52.5 years, SD = 9.4 years) with a cancer diagnosis who filled 731,261 prescriptions. The most commonly represented oncolytics were imatinib (37.4% of fills) and lenalidomide (17.7% of fills). Approximately 57.6% of fills were for drug-indication pairs with an overall survival benefit of 5+ months. In adjusted analyses, there was no significant difference in mean monthly OOP payment between drugs without evidence of benefit and those with 0-5 months progression-free survival benefit or 5+ months of overall survival benefit (p > 0.05). Meanwhile, drugs with 5-10 months progression-free survival benefit or 0-5 months overall survival benefit had higher OOP payments than those without benefit (p < 0.01). Conclusions: OOP payments for oral oncolytics were not clearly related to indication-specific value. This suggests that despite increased attention to value- and indication-based drug pricing, cost-sharing for oral oncolytics does not currently reflect these goals.

The rapid development of technologies, their impact on the speed of decision-making, and changes in communication methods have a significant impact on the financial sector, namely on payment systems. In addition to the technological transformation of the payment systems themselves, these changes are transforming the requirements of users who want transfers to be faster, safer, and more reliable. On the international market, the processes of change began several years ago, now they have begun to take place in Ukraine as well. This actualizes the need to assess the current state of the payment system in Ukraine, as well as to study those technologies that have the greatest prospects and significant impact on the payment space. For this purpose, in this study, we assessed the current state and trends in the functioning of the payment system of Ukraine. We investigated its main participants, such as the System of Electronic Payments of the National Bank of Ukraine (SEP), PROSTIR National Payment System, the dynamics of the main indicators. This made it possible to identify and substantiate the main problems and obstacles to the development of the payment system of Ukraine. Among the main ones, we attributed: monopolization of the payment market by international payment systems (IPS), insufficient level of consumer protection and shortcomings of legislation on market regulation, insufficient level of payment and financial literacy, especially of certain categories of the population (pensioners). An overview of the main trends in the development of payment systems under the influence of digitalization and innovation made it possible to identify the most significant technologies. Namely, real-time payments (RTP), SWIFT gpi, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, blockchain, and distributed ledger technology (DLT). In our opinion, these innovations themselves will make payment systems safer, more efficient, transparent, and cost-effective. But it is worth noting that the implementation of technologies is impossible without the complete digitalization of all payments and related services. Therefore, the main direction of increasing the efficiency of the functioning of the payment system of Ukraine is the transfer of the majority of payments to digital format. We believe this can be realized through high-quality coordination of all participants in the payment market, clear and timely implementation of the roadmap for changes, ensuring free and easy access to payment services for all users (financial inclusion), increasing the payment literacy of the population, creating conditions for expanding the payment infrastructure.

This articles analyses a contemporary problem, which has not been thoroughly analysed in scientific literature – Estimation of Digital Shadow Economy through a modified MIMIC model. It is the first pilot research of such type, which allows to reveal the need of deeper data analysis and data collection. Received results show, that three causal factors (internet access, and PC availability for households, non-cash payments, placement of innovative financial instruments on a market) and three indicators (non-cash transfers through internet payment platforms, volume of payments in cryptocurrencies and parcels, which are tax free at the customs) are not enough in order to perform interpretations of economic results. Additionally, the data set should cover longer-term data, however the limitation appears due to relatively short existence of innovative financial products and the lack of information accumulation about necessary data in statistical databases.

Background: In April 2016, Burkina Faso began free healthcare for children aged from 0 to 5 years. However, its implementation faces challenges, and the goal of this study is to estimate the fees paid for this child care and to determine the causes of these direct payments. Methods: Data gathering involved 807 children aged from 0 to 5 years who had contact with the public healthcare system. The estimation of the determinants of out-of-pocket health payments involved the application of a two-part regression model. Results: About 31% of the children made out-of-pocket payments for healthcare (an average of 3407.77 CFA francs per case of illness). Of these, 96% paid for medicines and 24% paid for consultations. The first model showed that out-of-pocket payments were positively associated with hospitalization, urban area of residence, and severity of illness, were made in the East-Central and North-Central regions, and were negatively associated with the 7 to 23 month age range. The second model showed that hospitalization and severity of illness increased the amount of direct health payments. Conclusion: Children targeted by free healthcare still make out-of-pocket payments. The dysfunction of this policy needs to be studied to ensure adequate financial protection for children in Burkina Faso.

This paper examines the role of the tax-free threshold in a tax and transfer system consisting of a range of taxes and income support payments. The simultaneous payment of tax and receipt of income support, seen by some commentators as a problem, is examined. The analysis shows that with an income support system, a tax-free range is not required to achieve redistribution. With the aim of improving labor supply incentives while maintaining approximate revenue and distribution neutrality, a policy change involving the elimination of the tax-free threshold in Australia is examined using a behavioral microsimulation model which accounts to a large extent for population heterogeneity. The results demonstrate that the tax-free threshold can be eliminated under these conditions, but labor supply incentives cannot simultaneously be improved. This means that the status quo could be more or less maintained while eliminating the tax-free threshold.

This research aims to examine the influence of Social Commerce, Influencers, Electronic Word of Mouth and Digital Payments on Purchasing Decisions in UMKM Samota Car Free Day. The sampling technique in this research uses purpose sampling, where the sample is the general public who make purchases at Car Free Day Samota, make purchases using digital payments, have social media and get information about Car Free Day Samota on social media. The data analysis techniques used are classical assumption testing, multiple regression analysis, and hypothesis testing. The type of data used is quantitative data obtained from primary data sources, then processed using the SPSS version 22 application. The results of this research are 1) Social Commerce partially has a positive and significant influence on purchasing decisions, 2) Influencers partially have a positive and significant influence on purchasing decisions, 3) Electronic Word of Mouth partially has a positive and significant effect on purchasing decisions, 4) Digital payments partially have a negative and significant effect on purchasing decisions, and 5) Simultaneously social media marketing, influencers, electronic word of mouth and digital payments have a positive and significant effect on purchasing decisions.

The present value of interest in the amortization schedule or the sinking fund schedule is derived in the theorem. Even though that people prefer the level payments with smaller total amount of interest, the sum of the present value of interest and the present value of principal remains unchanged in all payment methods. The sum is just the loan amount. Rather than the traditional spreadsheet, the free MIT App Inventor is applied to create the amortization schedule and the sinking fund schedule in the mobile computing environment.

In line with technological development, all forms of community activity have now shifted to digitalization, including payment activities. The purpose of this research is to examine and describe whether server-based electronic wallets can be a solution for multi-payment media in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 for millennial and what electronic wallets better support the needs of multi-payment in the era of industrial revolution 4.0. The method used by the researcher in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques used are interviews, observation, and documentation. In this study, the data obtained were analyzed using a phenomenological approach which was collected, reduced, presented, and then given a conclusion. The results of this study are that at FEBI IAIN Gorontalo there are 695 students of which 158 students use electronic wallets or about 22.73%. In use, electronic wallets can already be their multi-payment media solution in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 because of the convenience factor where students can make various payments using smartphones, fast because payments are made only by scanning a QR code, economical because admin fees are cheap and free as well as lots of promos. , flexible because it can be used anywhere and under any conditions, safe to lose money and avoid theft and supervised by Indonesian Bank

This issue of the Independent Journal of Management & production (IJM&P) features a selection of articles submitted and revised until September 2021. Observe the works are the fruit of research and publications of undergraduate, postgraduate and entrepreneurs. It is important to mention that all the works are showed without any kind of payment. All of them are published free from payments or taxes. The publication also counts on the work of researchers from various parts of the world, which have undergone a process of peer review.

The dividend distribution policy is a difficult financial decision for management. The research objective was to examine the determinants of the Dividend Payout Ratio (DPR) in companies listed on the Indonesian stock exchange. The independent variables used in this study are Free Cash Flow (FCF), Debt Rate (LEVERAGE), Foreign Ownership Level (FOREIGN), Growth Rate (GROWTH), and Company Size (SIZE).The research sample was 62 non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange using multiple regression analysis. This study is exposed to the problem of classical assumptions, namely data normality and cannot be resolved due to the limitations of the study sample. This study is also affected by the problem of heteroscedasticity so that the hypothesis testing uses weighted least square (WLS).The results showed evidence that FCF, Growth and Size have an effect on dividend payment policies and Leverage and Foreign have no effect on dividend payments. This study shows that investors who expect dividend payments can invest in companies that have a high FCF, large size and low growth, on the other hand, if investors expect a greater investment return, it can be obtained from Capital Gain. This research also shows that agency conflicts related to FCF can be resolved through dividend payments.

To ensure the generation renewal in the European Union there are subsidies for setting up of young farmers’ businesses and the retirement scheme and top-up direct payments. In the Czech Republic are provided subsides to interest rates with preference of young farmers and intergenerational succession of the farm is tax-free. Together with other incentives, those factors shall facilitate enter of young people to the sector. The aim of the paper is to assess whether the policy measures help the young farmers with setting-up of their business. Based on the primary survey on 510 young Czech farmers the most motivating for enter the sector were tax relief on transfer of the holding and top-up payment for young farmers. The farmers without background considered as sufficiently motivating the top-up payments more often than those with certain background who acknowledged more the top-up subsidies. Possible way how to facilitate the enter to the sector could be to keep the tax relief on farm transfer, to combine the measures for retirement and setting up of young farmers and provide investment subsidies or financial instruments for start-up. Top-up payments, despite motivational according to the farmers, are criticized as inefficient.

Introduction. Relations on payment for administrative services need the attention of Ukrainian scholars, the government and lawmakers. Currently this area is not streamlined in Ukraine. Many administrative services are either unreasonably free or have meager fees. As a result, budgets of local self-government authorities, which provide the bulk of administrative services, do not receive necessary compensation payments. Aim of the article. The aim of the article is to draw the attention of scholars and practitioners to the problematic issues of payment for administrative services. This is relevant because the appropriate funds are an important condition for ensuring the sustainable functioning of the system of administrative services, including centers on administrative services provision, digital infrastructure and so on. At the same time, there is a lack of scientifi c developments and coherent practical approaches to the legal regulation of the relations on payment for administrative services. Results. The article compares taxes / taxation with administrative fees to clarify the nature of a dministrative fees. This fee is primarily compensatory. As for services free of charge for consumers, appropriate calculations are needed to understand the amount of state compensation to local self-government authorities in the case of delegation of relevant powers. It is necessary to ensure in practice the adequacy of amounts of administrative fees, as well as the sustainability of the system and the timeliness of updating these amounts. In addition, it is necessary to eliminate the conditions that sometimes make it possible to collect dubious payments for administrative services in Ukraine. The article compares the relevant legislative initiatives that are being considered by the Parliament. Conclusions. It is concluded that payments for administrative services are primarily compensatory in nature for consideration and resolution of certain case. The amount of the fee should not exceed the cost of providing administrative services, as authorities are already supported by taxes. The compensatory function of an administrative fee plays an important role in ensuring the sustainability of the system. For Ukraine, the experience of such countries as Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany in the legislative regulation of administrative fees is relevant, with the defi nition of specifi c amounts of administrative fees directly in one Law «On Administrative Fees». Therefore, we consider the draft law 4380 worthy of support. Finally, this issue for the future should be studied even more deeply by scholarsadministrators and specialists in fi nancial law. Key words: administrative services, payment for administrative services, administrative fee

The article deals with the main problems of criminal characteristics of electronic money and payments as instruments of crime. The article reveals the economic and legal nature of electronic money (e-money). The features of e-money and its relation to electronic payments are identified. It is proved that intensive development of the IT sector results in an increasing replacement of cash by cashless methods of payment, and e-money is required for making payments online. E-money is previously created in all cases where they are stored on an electronic device and are used as means of payment, therefore they significantly reduce the level of abuse against property. Criminals in the real estate leasing sector use it as a tool when they commit cybercrime - a new place that has been transformed into a powerful source using for crime. Particular attention in this article is paid to the criminal characteristics of electronic money as an instrument of crime. Electronic money has been updated to account for a significant number of offending characters, while these crimes operate in free currency from a non-supported market and move to electronic services, they are used, and may be joined by warehouse resources, which require a criminal law level. It also indicates that e-money is being received by its billing service, and then can be exploited by attackers to trick owners who have already participated in their work. Through this process, using e-money and electronic payment is almost legal and covers the concept of legality. It is disclosed that the main complexity in detecting malicious tools creates electronic money, which makes it difficult to track the traces of such crime, which uses its delays in cyber space. The author also reveals an accurate view of electronic money resources, such as what is more likely to be abused, which is an additional element of criminal execution qualification.

Currently, the use of the marketplace as an online shopping site is not a new thing. Effortless and varied payment systems make people turn to online shopping applications to buy their daily needs. Not to mention that recently there was a pay later payment system with the advantage of using this system, one of which was being able to use discount vouchers or free shipping. Thus, this article was created to discuss the law on the use of e-vouchers in pay later payment systems in online shopping transactions based on Islamic law and principles in a review of muamalah fiqh, especially in contemporary muamalah fiqh. The research method used in this article is a qualitative research method by collecting and analyzing secondary data in the form of journals, articles, books, mass media related to the research. The results of the discussion show that in the perspective of Islamic law, the use of vouchers for payment later is considered not under Islamic law. This pay-later transaction uses an al-qardh contract (debt receivable) where the user will borrow the money first and pay it at the end of the month, although it is helpful due to additional fees or fines, it causes the implementation of paying later to become usury. Thus, the use of vouchers in pay-later payments is included in usury nasi'ah because of the benefits obtained in the transaction and there is an additional loan principal if late payments.

Over the period of the pandemic since March 2020, the number of contactless payments has increased in Russia. In many ways, the reason for the increase in non-cash payments was the desire of firms and taxpayers to reduce the spread of coronavirus infection – the share of non-cash payments in Russia in 2020 was about 70%, an increase of 6 percentage points relative to 2019. According to the Bank of Russia, the contribution of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to the share of noncash payments as a whole amounted to about 3%. Now Russians prefer to touch less cash and pay for purchases in stores and on websites using contactless methods, which are becoming more and more diverse every year (cards, rings with the M/Chip Mastercard technology, PayPal. NFC chips). Taxpayers prefer convenience and thus a cash-free (cashless) society. How has the increase in contactless payments affected tax revenues? How will the whitewashing of the Russian economy take place in the future? At the moment, cash is the only thing that ensures the anonymity of taxpayers. Will the state be able to speed up tax collection from those who prefer cash to card transfer against the background of the coronavirus? After all, any online payment can be calculated and recognized by the end user, without preserving privacy. The study uses data from the Federal Tax Service of Russia and data from the Bank of Russia. The research methods used to test the hypothesis are: analysis of domestic and foreign scientific publications; analysis of data from the Federal Tax Service of Russia; analysis of data of the Bank of Russia. According to the results, the hypothesis will be refuted or confirmed.

We investigate Groves mechanisms for economies where (i) a social outcome specifies a group of winning agents, and (ii) a cost function associates each group with a monetary cost. In particular, we characterize both (i) the class of cost functions for which there are Groves mechanisms such that the agents cover the costs through voluntary payments, and (ii) the class of cost functions for which there are envy‐free Groves mechanisms. It follows directly from our results that whenever production efficient and envy‐free allocations can be implemented in dominant strategies, this can moreover be done while funding production through voluntary payments.

Strong customer authentication (SCA) is a requirement of the European Union Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) which ensures that electronic payments are performed with multifactor authentication. While increasing the security of electronic payments, the SCA impacted seriously on the shopping carts abandonment: an Italian bank computed that 22% of online purchases in the first semester of 2021 did not complete because of problems with the SCA. Luckily, the PSD2 allows the use of transaction risk analysis tool to exempt the SCA process. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised novel combination of existing machine learning techniques able to determine if a purchase is typical or not for a specific customer, so that in the case of a typical purchase the SCA could be exempted. We modified a well-known architecture (U-net) by replacing convolutional blocks with squeeze-and-excitation blocks. After that, a memory network was added in a latent space and an attention mechanism was introduced in the decoding side of the network. The proposed solution was able to detect nontypical purchases by creating temporal correlations between transactions. The network achieved 97.7% of AUC score over a well-known dataset retrieved online. By using this approach, we found that 98% of purchases could be executed by securely exempting the SCA, while shortening the customer’s journey and providing an elevated user experience. As an additional validation, we developed an Alexa skill for Amazon smart glasses which allows a user to shop and pay online by merely using vocal interaction, leaving the hands free to perform other activities, for example driving a car.

For the new round of WTO multilateral trade liberalisation negotiations to be successful, the world will need to be more enthusiastic and flexible about opening markets. Partisans will need to submerge their self-interests, and the U.S. will need to take the initiative for more open markets. This paper makes the case that only modest changes in the U.S. domestic grain, oilseed, and cotton programmes are needed for compatibility with global free trade. The Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act of 1996 and related policy changes in the 1990s brought fundamental reforms compatible with freer domestic and foreign markets. Chief among these were a shift from coupled deficiency payments to decoupled direct payments, an end to supply management, and less engagement of government in commodity stock accumulation and export subsidies. Converting commodity price support to recourse loans while ending all but administrative cost subsidies to crop insurance would go far to liberalise grain, oilseed, and cotton policies. Unilateral termination of commodity programmes including direct payments totalling 42 percent of net cash farm income in year 2000 would appear to be traumatic to producers. However, reduction of direct payments could be offset (for farm income) by rising farm commodity prices and receipts resulting from (1) less farm output attending lower loan rates and crop insurance subsidies, and (2) world farm commodity price-enhancement from freer global trade.

Background: This study seeks to determine the extent of women's out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for delivery under the free maternity policy (FMP). Methods: We conducted a convergent parallel mixed-methods study using quantitative and qualitative data collection. The study was set in three facilities (levels 3, 4, and 5) in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study involved exit interview (EI) surveys with mothers (n = 553) who utilised FMP delivery services and focus group discussions (FGDs) with mothers who returned for postnatal visits (6, 10, and 14 weeks). There were 21 in-depth interviews (IDIs) with county officials and healthcare workers (HCWs). Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, while qualitative data were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Despite the FMP being free on paper, mothers incurred OOP payments in practice. The overall mean OOP payments incurred by mothers who underwent normal delivery was 9.50 USD (SD 8.20 USD), and caesarean section (CS) was 10.88 USD (SD 15.16 USD). The main cost drivers were transport, lack of adequate supply and medications, lack of policy clarity by health workers, failure to notify the NHIF office of available clients, and ultrasound scan services. While the OOP payments were not deemed catastrophic, some women perceived it as a barrier to care as they ended up using savings or selling their assets to meet the costs. There were no patient characteristics associated with OOP payments. Conclusions: OOP payments during childbirth in Kenya place a considerable economic burden on mothers and their households. There is need to promote awareness of the policy and provide a sustainable form of transport, especially during emergencies, through collaboration with partners. Prioritising the supply of required medication used in maternal services in the universal health care benefits package to which Kenyan citizens are entitled, or sustainably financing the FMP is crucial.

The article deals with the problem of payments state university scholarships to students in question in the context of the principle of "equal access to education" and the concept of "free education." Now in Ukrainian universities there are students of two different categories: the so-called "budget students" who study for free and receive scholarship from the state, and the so-called "payers" who pay tuition fee and do not receive stipends from the state. This situation leads to decline of the scholarship’s role as a stimulator, and, as a result - to general decline of the efficiency of higher education. In this regard, methodological aspects of improving the efficiency of public scholarship funds allocated to higher education are discussed. In particular, the term "scholarship" is analyzed in the context of the value of public education as the institutional system. Unfortunately, we continue to understand this concept in the Soviet interpretation as cash payments for students who use it to meet their personal needs during training. At the same time, the world understood as non-cash aid to pay tuition fee.

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand turbulence in the field of payments in Europe and which future challenges this bring. The objective is to enable actors – industrial as well as policy-making agencies – to avoid becoming passive and reluctant to take needed steps that may realize a new playing field for payments. Design/methodology/approach – The article uses scenario analysis methodology to propose a way forward if the field of payments is to move away from turbulence and instead embrace renewal. It is based on a literature study, interviews and workshops. Findings – This article discusses and shows how the payment system is in a state of turbulence, which in itself, may become a self-reinforcing negative process. The seemingly rational competitive actions that firms take in this situation may make the situation worse. The article also outlines critical action that must be taken to avoid this negative process. Research limitations/implications – There is a need for research that integrates studies on innovation and renewal in the critical industries – banking, telecom and the system driving industries – to improve our understanding of possible synergies and/or obstacles to integrated, cross-industry innovation efforts. Such insights may also lay the foundation for the creation of a way to overcome turbulence. Practical implications – The article advocates the need that critical actors collaborate to develop a new understanding – or common ground – of a future payment system. This will serve as a tool to identify obstacles and challenges, develop action and formulate agendas for different actors in and around the system. Based on the new common ground, actors are then free to formulate their own strategic agendas in a new competitive landscape in the field of payments. Social implications – If the turbulence is to be avoided, national governments in the euro area and the European Union Commission must work hard to avoid national exemptions and adaptations (often caused by strong lobbying by companies from each country in question). Innovation agencies must work so as to stimulate renewal. Another task could be to educate consumers on the social and economic benefits of moving away from a cash-based payment system. Originality/value – The originality of this paper is to test the idea that turbulence and the consequential inertia in the payment system is a result of the institutional set-up of the industry. In addition, the article uses causal texture theory and scenario analysis to understand turbulence and inertia in the payment system. This has, to my knowledge, not been done before.

The objective of this paper is to elaborate current and capital provisions in the European Union Association Agreements with the Mediterranean countries and their compatibility with the EC Treaty and the international multilateral agreements. These provisions can be classified into two categories. The first has fully liberalised current payments and demanded the progressive liberalisation of capital movement. The second has liberalised capital movements and demanded the progressive liberalisation of current payments. Accordingly, the outcome of this classification is that the Association Agreements, firstly, could not promote the liberalisation of current payments and capital movements in the Mediterranean countries. Secondly, they lag behind the virtual free movement of capital and payments among the parties. Finally, they could not recognise the relationship between current/capital transactions and the IMF, GATS and GATT.

The Stara Zagora region is characterized by the fact that there is a large number of agricultural producers who do not have enough land of their own to optimize their production. This causes increased interest and competition between them for free agricultural land, fields and permanent grassland. The purpose is to trace the dynamics of rent payments in Stara Zagora district, through dynamic relative values. A comparative analysis of the relative values ​​characterizing the dynamics was used.

Subject. The article focuses on the value added tax in case of exports from the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad Oblast. Objectives. We study methodological aspects of VAT in case of exports from the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad Oblast. Methods. We conducted the content analysis of available sources. The comparative analysis helped confirm the reasonableness, reliability and the relevance of methodological guidelines for determining economically adequate tax implications in terms of VAT in case of exports from the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad Oblast. Results. Importing foreign goods into the special economic zone of the Kaliningrad region and letting them pass the customs procedure of free economic zones, a Kaliningrad-registered legal entity was found to exempt from customs payments, including VAT as part of customs payments under the above procedure. Being transported to elsewhere in the EAEU, any goods in the free economic zone should be treated as foreign goods, unless their status as the EAEU goods is corroborated with documents. The effective tax and customs regulations provide for VAT to be paid on imports into the Russian Federation, including as part of customs payments, and subsequently VAT on the sale of goods in the Russian Federation. VAT on imports, inter alia, as part of customs payments is subject to tax deductions as per Articles 171, 172 of the Russian Tax Code. Conclusions and Relevance. The taxation mechanism herein is identical to that applying to exports from the free economic zone to elsewhere in the customs area of the EAEU if there were not tax clauses envisaged in Federal Law № 72-ФЗ. Hence, the above clauses seem reasonable to be excluded.

Purpose This paper aims to examine how homes can be purchased and financed by using Ijara-based diminishing Musharaka (IDM) modes of financing and thus both the home buyer (HB) and Islamic Bank (IB) become joint owners and share rental income jointly according to their respective shares. Such practice can help to avoid interest-based mortgage financing and eliminates excessive risks of bankruptcy as it often happens in conventional interest-based system. Design/methodology/approach A mathematical model as well as rental income, payments and share schedules for IDM will be developed where both the HB and IB will initially own the home. As the HB gradually pays off the principal amount, his or her share will increase while the share of the IB will gradually decrease as stipulated in the contract. Eventually, the HB will buy back all the shares and thus will own the home without paying for mortgage interest and taking excessive risks of foreclosures or living in constant fear of losing home over approximately 20 to 30 years of the tenure of the mortgage payments. Findings The HB can own home without paying any interest and without taking excessive risks of foreclosures. The HB is not borrower rather partners in business. In addition, the HB can minimize the total payments compared to interest-based mortgage financing. In the current IDM model, payments are flexible, and the HB will not be required to make regular installment payments, rather he or she receives regular rental income if the HB chooses not to live in the home. Even if HB lives in the home, part of the home can be rented, and the HB will receive regular share of rental income in each month. The HB will not lose the home even if he does not pay any installment while in interest-based mortgage system, the HB may lose the home if the HB stops installment payments even for a couple of months after paying for 29 years for 30 years mortgage. IDM mode of financing is risk free and worry free, and it instantaneously creates rental income for the HB, like any other business. Originality/value The current IDM model is one of the most recent, and unique approach of home financing, and it is extremely flexible and free from many restrictions compared to the existing similar models. Many of the existing diminishing Musharaka models impose many restrictions on the HB, such as the HB cannot even own or rent the place, cannot remodel or rebuild the place unless the HB pays off all the outstanding price of the home. If the current flexible IDM model is implemented, it will be truly revolutionary and even the people from other faith group will be extremely interested to join as HB and buy their homes by pursuing IDM mode of financing because it is risk free as well as it will free HB from the financial slavery of monthly installment payments for about two to three decades, especially during the most important and most valuable prime life time of the HB. The IDM model will unveil a potential and a promise to financial freedom by removing all constraints and preconditions in purchasing and financing homes.

Background The Latin American region demonstrates the lowest levels of trust in health systems globally. Institutional corruption is a major factor in eroding trust. Corruption in health services, including extracting bribes and informal payments from patients, directly harms health outcomes and weakens services intended as public goods. In this study, we aim to characterize the frequency and distribution of informal payments within public health services in Peru. Methods We conducted a secondary analysis of a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, the 2018 National Household Survey of Living Conditions and Poverty, and identified all individuals reporting health insurance from the Ministry of Health (SIS-MINSA) or Social Security (ESSALUD). We defined self-reported informal payments in 2 ways: 1) being asked to pay a bribe at a health establishment in the past year (direct method), and 2) creating an overall indicator for non-zero cost of care for services that should be free (indirect method). We used descriptive statistics to quantify informal payments and bivariate analysis to identify sociodemographic characteristics of those most frequently reporting such payments. Findings 132,355 people were surveyed, including 69,839 (52.8%) with coverage from SIS-MINSA and 30,461 (23.03%) from ESSALUD. Less than 1% of participants directly reported informal payments, either at SIS-MINSA services (0.22%); or at ESSALUD (0.42%). Indirect reporting was more prevalent, including up to 10% of surgery patients and 17% of those hospitalized in SIS-MINSA facilities. Wealthier patients (19%) were more likely to report such payments. Interpretation While direct reporting of bribery was uncommon, we found moderate prevalence of informal payments in public health services in Peru using an indirect assessment method. Indirect reporting may exceed direct reporting due to difficulty in distinguishing appropriate and inappropriate payments, fear of reporting health care workers’ behavior, or social tolerance of informal payments. Informal payments were more common among those with greater financial capital, indicating they may obtain enhanced services. Further research on patients’ perception and reporting of informal payments is a key step towards accurate measurement and evidence-based intervention.

AbstractDigitalization is both a major cause of the challenges now faced by several media industries and a source of their potential solutions. Within the book and newspaper industries, the value of the physical product is about to be surpassed by that of digitally delivered content, disrupting the distribution system that these industries have relied on for many decades. In particular, digital distribution has radically changed the way in which consumers engage in unpaid and paid media consumption.Anchored in the notion of disruptive innovation, and more specifically related to the idea of distribution as disruptive technology, our study investigates Generation Z’s unpaid and paid consumption of digital books and online local newspapers. Drawing on two Norwegian audience surveys, we find that both industries involve at least one disruptive actor. Generation Z relies heavily on Facebook as a distribution channel for news. Pay-walls have a negative effect on the usage of paid online local news, despite the belief that paywalled news is better than free news. In the Norwegian book industry, paper books still have a very strong position among Generation Z. Audiobooks have greater usage than e-books, and we conclude that the real disruptive actor in the Norwegian book industry is the streaming of audiobooks by actors such as Storytel.

Ukraine constantly continues to move towards the consolidation of economic processes with the European Union, and the issue of rapid European integration as a whole is extremely relevant. Currently, a number of simplified procedures have been introduced with EU countries: «economic visa-free travel», transport and energy «visa-free travel» (all this contributes to the abolition of tariffs and quotas to simplify documentation, save money, avoid corruption and money laundering). Customs innovations allow Ukrainian businesses to get tools to take advantage of the benefits and simplifications of the joint transit procedure. The article defines that Ukraine’s accession in 2022 to the convention on the procedure of joint transit, the so-called «customs visa-free», will contribute not only to the simplification of customs procedures, but also to strengthening the security of customs transportation, the development of international trade, strengthening the fight against money laundering, transparency of export-import operations and ensuring the payment of customs payments to the budget. The use of a computerized transit system (NCTS) for «customs visa-free travel», in addition to simplifying customs clearance, allows for customs risk analysis, which generally contributes to improving the efficiency of customs risk management and combating money laundering.

The development of wireless technology has been facilitated for an immense rise in mobile device users and paved way for the rapid growth of e-commerce in India. It has performed through wireless telecommunication networks and other wired e-commerce technologies. Instead of cash, cheque, or credit or debit cards, payments are made via mobile devices. The customer generally makes the payment for a wide range of services and digital or hard goods. The mobile payment acts as a business tool substituting the need of banks, ATM, and credit or debit cards by enabling the user to make financial transactions with digital money. A user ready to purchase a good or service from a seller, through mobile payment service, is introduced to a trusted third party; it allows the user to make payment from his account to another account. Thus, there is free movement of mobile money between users either by using a local area wireless network or by using the wireless service provider’s network. The Indian Government also supports various digital payment apps such as Aadhaar payment app, UPI app, and Bharat Interface for Money app, along with private sector apps like Paytm, free charge, mobikwik, and so on. Such new apps are helpful to transfer funds across various parts of our country. This study provides spotlight on the impacts of digital wallets on small-income business groups who operate in every nook and cranny, and what services are offered by the mobile payment system and utilization and awareness levels of services offered by the mobile payment system (1).

This study investigates the effect of board diversity in terms of gender and ethnicity on dividend payout policy when a firm has free cash flow agency problem. It also tests whether the probability of diverse boards would minimize free cash flow agency problem through making large dividend payments is more pronounced in firms with high ownership concentration. We find that our results differ based on how corporate dividend policy is measured, and vary by the level of free cash flows and ownership concentration. More specifically, we find that women’s (Malays’) presence on boards has positive impact on dividend yield (dividend payout), and this effect conditional on the level of free cash flows generated by firms. Our results also show that the role of female and Malay directors in forcing controlling shareholders of firms with substantial free cash flows to cash out the firms’ resources through making higher dividend payments is more prominent when the firms’ ownership structure is concentrated in the hand of largest shareholders. The findings of our study, to some extent, support the government calls for increasing the number of women participation on corporate boardrooms and the participation of Malays in corporate sector.

Various types of ‘bubbles', e.g. stock market, housing, dot.com, high-tech, historically, are commonly-observed phenomena in complex systems. Yet, their emergence often surprises people who remain unaware of history or their systemic roots. Bubbles are often considered to be simply the product of unwise speculative investments or social mania. Alternatively, conventional economic theories often consider factors, such as interest rates, to be the trigger. However, economic theories rarely account for the systemic structure of markets or for non-linear dynamics. The authors propose that special cases may emerge in some markets to trigger instability. Specifically, when minimal interest rates and capital requirements (down payments) are become extremely low a perceptual shift occurs among consumers such that they become viewed as approximate free goods. This paper proposes that unwise economic policies may activate a free goods scenario initiating a cascading series of destabilizing events leading to market collapse. The authors propose hypothesize that such incendiary policies caused both the 1929 stock market crash and the 2008 subprime housing crisis in the United States. To more deeply examine this claim, these policies were tested using a system dynamics model based on data from both the 1929 and 2008 crises. The model simulated and tested the effects of alternative rate policies on market dynamics. Some of the rates and down payments used in both crises set off tsunami-like shock waves through markets leading to their sudden collapse in these simulations. Based on the findings of this study, found that economic policies lessened market stability. The authors propose several revisions to these policies to foster greater market sustainability.

Recent attempts to test the validity of the contingent valuation method have relied on laboratory-type experiments. In these experiments, willingness to pay responses in hypothetical choice experiments are compared with responses from choice experiments requiring actual payments. Often evidence of hypothetical bias is found. Critical for these experimental tests of hypothetical surveys is that the methodology used to elicit willingness to pay from subjects in the real-payment experiment be demand revealing. If it is not, then differences in responses to hypothetical and real valuation questions could be due to free-riding in the real-payment survey and not due to hypothetical bias in the hypothetical survey. This paper reports on experiments that implement a theoretically incentive-compatible revelation mechanism (a closed referendum) to elicit responses to valuation questions in both hypothetical and real experiments. As in earlier studies, evidence of an upward hypothetical bias is found.

Changing established systems of government entitlement is a thorny proposition, even for popular states with sturdy holds on the reigns of power. The Russian Federation, in the throes of a severe economic downturn, extreme political instability and social crisis, has nonetheless altered the official stance toward forms of entitlement from the previous regime. Benefits cut from the ‘social contract’ have included guaranteed employment, free post-secondary education and access to state-subsidized apartments, in attempts to redefine the lines of authority and responsibility between citizens and the state. Other lines of responsibility appear sacrosanct. The Soviet pension system, more specifically the old age and service pensions, remains in place, but with extreme delays in payment, poor indexing to the cost of living and high levels of tax evasion.In this article I examine the ways in which both the legacy of Soviet pension policies and post-1991 economic and social trends have constrained policy options concerning pension reform, particularly in reference to old age pensions, and prevented a serious re-evaluation of pension provision. The Russian Federation government inherited a pension system ill-equipped to cope with its aging population. However, the previous pension system did deliver payments on a regular basis to nearly one in five citizens before 1991. Unlike other areas of often unfulfillable social services guarantees (housing for families, quality health care and free access to higher education), the pension system represented a Soviet social programme that provided consistent direct assistance to a large proportion of the population. Pension payments were an expected entitlement.

Abstract In Nigeria, most basic maternal and child health services in public primary health-care facilities should be either free of charge or subsidized. In practice, additional informal payments made in cash or in kind are common. We examined the nature, drivers and equity consequences of informal payments in primary health centres (PHC) in Enugu State. We used three interlinked qualitative methods: participant observation in six PHC facilities and two local government area (LGA) headquarters; in-depth interviews with frontline health workers (n = 19), managers (n = 4) and policy makers (n = 10); and focus group discussions (n = 2) with female service users. Data were analysed thematically using NVivo 12. Across all groups, informal payments were described as routine for immunization, deliveries, family planning consultations and birth certificate registration. Health workers, managers and policy makers identified limited supervision, insufficient financing of facilities, and lack of receipts for formal payments as enabling this practice. Informal payments were seen by managers and health workers as a mechanism to generate discretionary revenue to cover operational costs of the facility but, in practice, were frequently taken as extra income by health workers. Health workers rationalized informal payments as being of small value, and not a burden to users. However, informal payments were reported to be inequitable and exclusionary. Although they tended to be lower in rural PHCs than in wealthier urban facilities, participant observation revealed how, within a PHC, the lowest earners paid the same as others and were often left unattended if they failed to pay. Some female patients reported that extra payments excluded them from services, driving them to seek help from retail outlets or unlicensed health providers. As a result, informal payments reduced equity of access to essential services. Targeted policies are needed to improve financial risk protection for the poorest groups and address drivers of informal payments and unfairness in the health system.

Abstract Background : Ibr, an established standard of care in CLL, is a once-daily Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor with significant progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival benefit shown in multiple randomized phase 3 studies in first-line CLL. Ven, an oral BCL-2 inhibitor approved as a single agent or combined with rituximab or obinutuzumab for CLL treatment, achieves high rates of undetectable MRD (uMRD). Ibr and Ven, with distinct and complementary mechanisms of action, work synergistically to mobilize CLL cells from lymph nodes and lymphoid niches, enhance cell killing, and eliminate distinct CLL cell populations. CAPTIVATE (PCYC-1142; NCT02910583) is an international, multicenter phase 2 study evaluating first-line Ibr + Ven in 2 cohorts: MRD and Fixed-Duration (FD). Patients (pts) first received 3 cycles of Ibr followed by 12 cycles of combined Ibr + Ven. In the primary analysis of the MRD cohort, pts with Confirmed uMRD who after fixed duration treatment were randomized to placebo or continued Ibr had similar post-randomization 1-year DFS rates (95% and 100%, respectively) (Wierda, ASH 2020). Two-year post-randomization results are presented. Methods : Pts aged &lt;70 years with previously untreated CLL received 3 cycles of Ibr lead-in then 12 cycles of combined Ibr + Ven (oral Ibr 420 mg/day; oral Ven ramp-up to 400 mg/day). During cycle 16, pts with Confirmed uMRD (defined as uMRD serially over ≥2 assessments ≥3 mo apart, and in both peripheral blood [PB] and bone marrow [BM]) were randomized 1:1 to receive double-blind treatment with placebo or single-agent Ibr. Pts who did not meet the definition of Confirmed uMRD were randomized 1:1 to receive open-label treatment with single-agent Ibr or continued Ibr + Ven. Endpoints presented include 2-year DFS rate (defined as survival without progression [PD] or MRD relapse post-randomization) in pts with Confirmed uMRD randomized to placebo vs Ibr, rates of uMRD (&lt;10 -4 by 8-color flow cytometry), investigator-assessed best response per iwCLL, investigator-assessed PFS, and adverse events (AEs). Results : 164 pts were enrolled. Median age was 58 years (range, 28-69). High-risk features included unmutated IGHV (60% of pts), del(17p)/TP53 mutation (20%), complex karyotype (19%), and del(11q) without del(17p) (17%). After 12 cycles of Ibr + Ven, 149 pts were randomized: Confirmed uMRD to placebo (n=43) or Ibr (n=43); without Confirmed uMRD to Ibr (n=31) or Ibr + Ven (n=32). Median overall follow-up was 38.2 mo (range, 15.0-47.9); median post-randomization follow-up was 24.0 mo (range, 5.8-33.1). In pts with Confirmed uMRD randomized to placebo versus Ibr, no new DFS events occurred since the primary analysis; 2-year DFS rates post-randomization remained unchanged at 95% (placebo) vs 100% (Ibr), for a 4.7% difference (95% CI -1.6-10.9) and overall log-rank P=0.1573 (Figure 1). In the placebo and Ibr arms post-randomization, modest improvements were observed in complete response (CR) rates, including CR with incomplete bone marrow recovery (CRi) (Figure 2). Estimated 36-mo PFS rates were 95% with placebo and 100% with Ibr. In pts without Confirmed uMRD randomized to Ibr vs Ibr + Ven, greater improvements in best uMRD rates and CR/CRi rates were observed with Ibr + Ven than with Ibr post-randomization (Figure 2). Estimated 36-mo PFS rates were 97% with both Ibr and Ibr + Ven. Median treatment duration was 36.8 mo (range, 0.5-47.9) in all pts (N=164). Modest differences in AEs were observed across treatment arms post-randomization. During the overall study period across all-treated pts, the most frequent grade 3/4 AEs were neutropenia (36%), hypertension (10%), thrombocytopenia (5%), and diarrhea (5%). With up to 48 mo of treatment, AEs led to discontinuation of Ibr or Ven in 13% of pts; no new safety signals emerged. Conclusions : First-line Ibr + Ven is an all-oral, once-daily, chemotherapy-free regimen that provides deep responses in pts with CLL. With an additional year of follow-up and no new MRD relapses, PDs or deaths in pts with confirmed uMRD, the 2-year DFS rate in the MRD-guided placebo arm remained high at 95% while 3-year PFS rates were ≥95% across all randomized treatment arms. The results in pts with Confirmed uMRD support the potential for treatment-free remission with fixed-duration treatment, including in pts with high-risk features. High rates of uMRD were achieved; the safety profile of Ibr + Ven was consistent with known safety profile for each agent. Figure 1 Figure 1. Disclosures Ghia: Acerta/AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; ArQule/MSD: Consultancy, Honoraria; BeiGene: Consultancy, Honoraria; Celgene/Juno/BMS: Consultancy, Honoraria; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Sunesis: Research Funding; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Gilead: Consultancy, Research Funding. Allan: Celegene: Research Funding; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Janssen Biotech Inc, TG Therapeutics Inc.: Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria; BeiGene: Consultancy, Honoraria; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Consultancy, Honoraria; Genentech: Consultancy, Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Research Funding; Epizyme: Consultancy; AbbVie Inc, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, BeiGene, Janssen Biotech Inc, Pharmacyclics LLC: Consultancy; AbbVie Inc, Ascentage Pharma, Epizyme, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Janssen Biotech Inc, Pharmacyclics LLC: Other: Advisory Committee. Siddiqi: Kite Pharma: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Juno therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; BMS: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Abbvie: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AstraZeneca: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; BeiGene: Other: DSM Member, Speakers Bureau; PCYC: Speakers Bureau; Jannsen: Speakers Bureau; Dava Oncology: Honoraria; ResearchToPractice: Honoraria. Kipps: Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Honoraria, Other; MD Anderson Cancer Center: Research Funding; Velos: Research Funding; CRIM: Research Funding; Indy Hematology Review: Other; TG Therapeutics: Other; Verstem: Other, Speakers Bureau; University of California, San Diego: Current Employment; Pharmacyclics/AbbVie: Honoraria, Research Funding; Breast Cancer Research Foundation: Research Funding; SCOR - The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: Research Funding; National Cancer Institute/NIH: Honoraria, Research Funding; Genentech/Roche: Honoraria; European Research Initiative on CLL (ERIC): Honoraria; Bionest Partner: Other; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other, Research Funding; Genetech: Honoraria, Other; Genentech-Roche: Consultancy; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other, Speakers Bureau; DAVA Pharmaceuticals: Speakers Bureau; DAVAOncology: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other, Speakers Bureau; Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc.: Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company, Other: Stock or other ownership, Patents & Royalties: Cirmtuzumab was developed by Thomas J. Kipps in the Thomas J. Kipps laboratory and licensed by the University of California to Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc., which provided stock options and research funding to the Thomas J. Kipps laboratory., Research Funding; Moores Cancer Center: Current Employment; MedImmune Inc: Research Funding; GlaxoSmithKline: Research Funding; Gilead Sciences, Inc.: Honoraria, Research Funding; Genentech, Inc.: Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Pharmacyclics LLC, an Abbvie Company: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Celgene Corporation: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Abbott Laboratories: Consultancy, Research Funding. Kuss: Commonwealth Serum Laboratories: Other: Stock or other ownership; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Merck: Consultancy, Honoraria; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria; Kyowa Kirin: Consultancy, Honoraria; Mundipharma: Consultancy, Honoraria; Roche Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Speakers Bureau. Opat: AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Sandoz: Research Funding; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses, Research Funding; CSL: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Monash Health: Current Employment; BeiGene: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Merck: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; GIlead: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Mundipharma: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding. Flinn: Portola Pharmaceuticals: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Loxo: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Incyte: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Juno Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Forma Therapeutics: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Seagen: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Pfizer: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Roche: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Genentech: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; ArQule: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Merck: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Constellation Pharmaceuticals: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Nurix Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Celgene: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Unum Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Great Point Partners: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; MorphoSys: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Verastem: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; BeiGene: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Teva: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Acerta Pharma: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; IGM Biosciences: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Takeda: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Curis: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Karyopharm Therapeutics: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Calithera Biosciences: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Iksuda Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Kite, a Gilead Company: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Yingli Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Agios: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Infinity Pharmaceuticals: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Rhizen Pharmaceuticals: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Forty Seven: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy and research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy, Other: All Consultancy and Research Funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Trillium Therapeutics: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Triphase Research & Development Corp.: Other: All research funding payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Century Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Hutchison MediPharma: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Vincerx Pharma: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Sarah Cannon Research Institute: Current Employment; Servier Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Yingli Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Seagen: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Servier Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Unum Therapeutics: Consultancy, Other: All consultancy payments made to Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Research Funding; Johnson & Johnson: Current holder of individual stocks in a privately-held company; Seattle Genetics: Research Funding. Badoux: Janssen: Honoraria; AbbVie: Honoraria, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses. Tedeschi: Beigene: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; AbbVie: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Gonzalez-Barca: Kiowa: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Eusapharma: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses, Speakers Bureau; Takeda: Speakers Bureau; Roche: Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses; AbbVie: Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses, Speakers Bureau. Pagel: Pharmacyclics/AbbVie: Consultancy; Gilead: Consultancy; Actinium Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; Kite, a Gilead Company: Consultancy; BeiGene: Consultancy; Epizyme: Consultancy; MEI Pharma: Consultancy; AstraZeneca: Consultancy; Incyte/MorphoSys: Consultancy. Jacobs: AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; ADC Therapeutics: Consultancy; Adaptive Biotechnologies: Consultancy; MEI Pharma: Research Funding; TeneoBio: Research Funding; SecuraBio: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Verastem: Consultancy; TG Therapeutics: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Jannsen: Speakers Bureau; Genentech: Consultancy; AbbVie: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau. Szafer-Glusman: AbbVie: Current Employment, Other: Stock or other ownership. Zhou: AbbVie: Current Employment, Other: Stock and other ownership. Ninomoto: AbbVie: Current Employment, Other: Stock or other ownership. Dean: Pharmacyclics: Current Employment, Other: Stock or other ownership; AbbVie: Other: Stock Ownership. Tam: Pharmacyclics: Honoraria; BeiGene: Consultancy, Honoraria; Loxo: Consultancy; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Novartis: Honoraria. Wierda: Janssen: Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Research Funding; GSK/Novartis: Research Funding; Acerta Pharma Inc.: Research Funding; Karyopharm: Research Funding; Xencor: Research Funding; Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc.: Research Funding; Loxo Oncology, Inc.: Research Funding; Genentech: Research Funding; Sunesis: Research Funding; Miragen: Research Funding; Cyclacel: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Research Funding; Juno Therapeutics: Research Funding; Gilead Sciences: Research Funding; KITE Pharma: Research Funding; Genzyme Corporation: Consultancy; AbbVie: Research Funding. OffLabel Disclosure: Ibrutinib in combination with venetoclax is not approved in any indication.

As the world is moving toward a digital era, cashless payments are quite in demand. Smart cards that need to be swiped are vulnerable to skimming attacks and data theft. Thus, there is a need to have a cashless transaction system that is fast as well as secure and allows hassle-free transactions. This Work propose a novel approach to develop an advanced cashless payment system based on RFID that can be deployed anywhere to enable faster smoother, and secure transactions. The users of the system will have to be pre- registered and all the user-related information will be saved in a MySQL database the system will be programmed using HTML, CSS, and PHP or any supporting back-end programming language. The RFID reader will interact with a microcontroller ESP32 WROOM and the Microcontroller will be connected with an application using a WIFI module built into the micro-controller. Key Words: RFID Technology, Wireless Payment Systems, Secure Transactions.

The environmental and health care challenges pose new requirements for the level of technological equipment responsible for uninterrupted financial flows. The research is based on the following indicators: gross domestic product; e-commerce revenue; the share of banks’ participation in e-commerce; the level of cash usage in developed and developing countries; online and offline payments in European countries. The following statistical sources were used: the IMF, Statista, McKinsey, Adobe Analytics, Blue Yonder, Oliver Wyman, BIS, etc. We detected that the European countries became one of the first to experience significant economic damage from Covid 19. Also, authors defined the key areas to overcome the crisis effects. They are the developed financial infrastructure, the flexibility of employers, and the modern technological equipment of companies. Ensuring the development of the financial infrastructure is possible only under the following conditions: existing payment instruments and innovations in this segment; adequate level of cybersecurity and prevention of free theft of personal data; opportunities for access to e-commerce, which would allow consumers to uninterruptedly receive the necessary goods for life, develop logistics and create a giant company; cloud technologies have become an effective solution for workers and employers because, without them, a significant part of workers would be out of work, and this would further reduce purchasing power and deepen the crisis. Modern financial technologies are in a period of their increasing consumer demand and the need for new advanced solutions to existing payment instruments. The next few years will be decisive in shaping a new dimension in the electronic payments system.

AbstractThis study evaluates the attitudes of U.S. (Kansas) farmers regarding “free-trade” and “free-market” policy environments. In contrast to earlier studies, non-specific policy attitudes are evaluated. A direct measure of farm program benefits is also included. Attitudes vary significantly with farm and operator characteristics. Support for free trade was shown to decrease with education and experience, to increase for farms with relatively more rented land, and to increase as total farm wealth increased. Support for free-trade was also higher for crop farms. Farms receiving more government payments are less likely to favor a free-trade policy environment.

Payments are made or received without the use of hard cash in cashless transactions. Going cashless eases life with authentication and formalized transactions. The convenience of making a financial transaction is likely the most compelling reason to go digital. Cashless transactions include payments made through cheque, DD, online transfer via RTGS or NEFT, credit/debit card, E-wallets, mobile wallets, UPI Apps, Gift cards, etc. One won’t need to carry a large amount of cash and not wait in big lines for withdrawals, it’s also a safer and more convenient way to spend. In India October 2016 Mastercard launched the cashless initiative and in November 2016 PM Narendra Modi announced a cash-free economy in India. According to Razorpay digital payment transactions in India raised 78% after covid-19. With the growth of 26.5% in the e-commerce market in India, digital payment for e-commerce and retail increased 260% after the second wave of covid-19. The main objective of the study is to find out the relationship between digital payment and e-commerce business with the analysis of efforts toward cashless transactions. This study also focuses on factors responsible for the e-commerce boom in India. With the using convenience sampling method, a structured questionnaire was used to analyze the objective of the study. SPSS-20 was used for factor analysis. The present study resulted in the pandemic situation having expanded the importance of e-commerce shopping trends among the buyers. Electronic shopping had made cashless transactions supportive, monetary, and ideal for customers to purchase from anywhere and anything during the pandemic situation. Web-based shopping or e-shopping customers consider this as it saves time, is more convenient, wide variety of products has easy price comparisons, and has no crowds.

A principal seeks to efficiently allocate a productive public resource to a number of possible users. Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) mechanisms provide a detail‐free way to do so provided users have deep pockets. In practice however, users may have limited resources. We study a dynamic allocation problem in which participants have limited liability: transfers are made ex post, and only if the productive efforts of participants are successful. We show that it is possible to approximate the performance of the pivot VCG mechanism using limited liability detail‐free mechanisms that selectively ignore reports from participants who cannot make their promised payments. A complementary use of cautiousness and forgiveness achieves approximate renegotiation‐proofness. We emphasize the use of prior‐free online optimization techniques to approximate aggregate incentive properties of the pivot mechanism.

The article reveals the economic essence and importance of wages as a component of current payments to employees and studies the methodology and organization of accounting and taxation of remuneration. The problems of organization and methods of payroll accounting are determined. These are the main shortcomings in the field of taxation, as well as the problems of using the tariff system as the basis for accounting and documenting payments for remuneration with personnel. Methodology. The normative and legislative regulation of accounting and documentation of payments for remuneration is analyzed. The requirements for the formation of the organization of remuneration accounting, which determine the tasks, the system of indicators, documentation and the system of accounts on which the relevant information is accumulated, are presented. Results. It is concluded that the improvement of labor accounting and its remuneration at enterprises should be based on the optimization of tariff regulation of wages, namely: improvement of the tariff system by establishing ratios of tariff rates depending on the level of qualification of the worker; introduction of flexible forms and systems of remuneration, including contract and tariff-free; collective regulation of wages. The main ways to improve the display of wage accounting are proposed. Practical implications. The organization of document circulation on employee payments is investigated, the methodology of synthetic and analytical accounting of payments to employees for worked and unworked time is determined. The methodology of conducting audit procedures for payments to employees is considered, the effectiveness of employee benefits is evaluated. Value/originality. The scientific novelty of the work consists in summarizing theoretical and practical material on the methodology, economic essence, forms and types of payments for employee benefits. The theoretical essence of calculations on remuneration of the enterprise is determined, the regulatory and legal regulation of payments to employees in Ukraine is investigated, the tasks of accounting, auditing and analysis of employee benefits are considered.

In this paper we attempt to assess the relevance of correspondence principle in determining the possible effects of currency devaluation on balance of payments and employment. We developed a model in line with Buffie (1986) who derived a very strong result that if the model is locally stable and if labour and imported inputs are gross substitutes then devaluation will certainly improve labour employment and balance of payments at the same time. For the general production function the Buffie model predicts that devaluation cannot contract both employment and balance of payments at the same time since either of them is incompatible with the stability of the model. Buffie results by and large depend upon stability conditions of the model and what we have demonstrated that stability analysis of the model unfortunately is not free of error. In the corrected model we observe that the results derived by Buffie do not hold in general.