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Evaluation quality is a function of methodological and data inputs. This paper argues that there has been inadequate … investment in methodology, often resulting in low quality evaluation outputs. With an increased focus on results, evaluation … people, so attention to sound methodology matters. This paper explores three areas in which evaluation can be improved. First …
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Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...
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This paper evaluates bank exit regimes in selected financial centres using econometric methods. The focus is on bank exit regimes applicable to commercial banks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo in 1998–2002. Bank exit regimes are studied from the perspective of bank creditors...
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of an evaluation lies not in its (apparent) incontrovertibility but rather in its clarity of assumptions and in its …
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Très souvent perçue en tant qu’instrument de jugement a posteriori, l’évaluation a entre autre été conçue comme méthode … le bilan d’une situation. Dans la pratique, l’évaluation, appliquée sous une forme opérationnelle, suppose l’emploi de …’appliquent à ce même objet. L’évaluation reste donc étroitement liée à des notions purement théoriques et se heurte encore à des …
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El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...
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El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
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Territorial appointees to an independent central bank (e.g. District Federal Reserve Banks’ presidents, Governors of national central banks at the ECB’s Governing Council) are liable to confront a “role conflict” stemming from a duality of loyalties and allegiances - to the home regional...
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Current monetary policy involves the manipulation of the Central Bank interest rate (the repo rate), with the specific objective of achieving the goal(s) of monetary policy. The latter is normally the inflation rate, although in a number of instances this may include the level of economic...
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The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...
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