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Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal : Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program

Kasy, Maximilian; Lehner, Lukas - 2023

We evaluate a guaranteed job program launched in 2020 in Austria. Our evaluation is based on three approaches, pairwise matched randomization, a pre-registered synthetic control at the municipality level, and a comparison to individuals in control municipalities. This allows us to estimate...

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Moral hazard and the composition of transfers: theory with an application to foreign aid

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Strobl, Eric - 2007

The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor's choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted in response to changes in the moral hazard behavior of the recipient. In-kind or restricted...

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Corruption Beyond the Glass Ceiling : Do Women Entrepreneurs Perceive Corruption Differently?

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2019

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey … and female owners perceived corruption to be lower relative to men. Furthermore, older firms perceived corruption to be a …

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From One to Many Central Plans: Drug Advertising Inspections and Intra-National Protectionism in China

Eberhardt, Markus; Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong - 2014

This paper provides the first micro-level evidence for the existence and patterns of intra-national protectionism in China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms from outside the province and document how the degree of...

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Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood

Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin F.; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2017

We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...

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Priority Roads: The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China

Holz, Carsten A. - 2019

This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People’s Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE...

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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers

Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...

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Membership has its privileges: The effect of membership in international organizations on FDI

Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...

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Reforming pensions in Europe: economic fundamentals and political factors

Schneider, Ondřej - 2009

This paper analyzes pension reforms in Europe and their determinants. As pension reforms are intrinsically difficult to define and pinpoint, we introduce an alternative measure of pension reforms by comparing long-term forecasts of pension expenditures for seventeen European countries. The...

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