The real option theory provides a useful tool to evaluate an R&D investment under uncertainty because, unlike the NPV … (Net Present Value), it considers the managerial flexibility that may be expand the investment opportunity value. However …, most R&D investment projects are open to competing firms in the same industry or line of business, and so the strategic …

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

This paper revisits the fiscal decentralization theorem, by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision …-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same time, decentralization has reverse effects, e.g., through coordination … consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together. …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …