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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies

Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009

Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP...

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Survey Of State-Society Relations Social Indicators Research Project Executive Summary Report

Ling, Ooi Giok; Ser, Tan Ern; Koh, Gillian - eSocialSciences - 2010

The executive summary reports on major findings from a survey conducted among a random sample of 1,054 Singaporeans and Permanent Residents aged 18 to 65. Focus is on views of public policies in three areas, namely, political participation, social capital and trust and provision of public goods...

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Relative performance of two simple incentive mechanisms in a public good experiment

Bracht, Juergen; Figuieres, Charles; Ratto, Marisa - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2004

This paper reports on experiments designed to compare the performance of two incentive mechanisms in public goods problems. One mechanism rewards and penalizes deviations from the average contribution of the other agents to the public good (tax-subsidy mechanism). Another mechanism allows agents...

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Reputation and Ownership of Public Goods

Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Pafilis, Evagelos - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of reputation on ownership of public goods in the Besley and Ghatak (2001) model. We show that in the dynamic setup the optimal ownership depends not only on the relative valuations for the public good but also on technology (elasticity of investment). We also show...

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Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China

Yao, Yang; Qia, Nancy; Bravo, Monica Martinez; Miquel, … - eSocialSciences - 2011

Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, taking into account that...

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Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods

Birdsall, Nancy; Leo, Benjamin - eSocialSciences - 2011

In this paper, four categories of existing resource-mobilization options are examined, including (1) transportation levies; (2) currency and financial transaction taxes; (3) capitalization of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); and (4) the sale, mobilization, or capitalization of IMF gold....

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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other Peopleâ€™s Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Karlan, Dean; List, John A - eSocialSciences - 2012

field experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from …. In the second field experiment, the same charity sent direct mail solicitations to individuals who had not previously … effective than not identifying the name of the matching donor. The first experiment demonstrates that the matching grant …

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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; … - eSocialSciences - 2012

A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure of the network. The observed patterns are consistent...

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Nature of human capital, technology and ownership of public goods

Halonen, Maija - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

Besley and Ghatak (2001) show that public good should be owned by the agent who values the public good most — irrespective of technological factors. In this paper we relax their assumptions in a natural way by allowing the agents to be indispensable and show that relative valuations are not...

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