that bureaucrats are able to, and do indeed, affect the allocation of grants within municipalities to support own goals …

target aid to the poor and deserving are increasingly disputed. We contribute to the emerging literature on the allocation of …, we cover the allocation of both self-financed and officially co-financed aid for a large panel of NGOs and recipient … peers. Officially refinanced NGOs are more inclined to imitate the allocation of ODA. However, the degree of financial …

. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; contest theory ; multi-dimensional resource allocation ; rent-seeking ; experiments …

of the system, under various institutional arrangements, through the initial allocation of permits. -- tradable permits …

allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid … money to developing countries, comparing its allocation decisions with traditional and other so-called emerging donors. We … find that political considerations are an important determinant of China's allocation of aid. However, in comparison to …

allocation to low-activity installations, for installations operating below the threshold, the financial gain from increasing …) relative to a scenario without ALTs, but this gain is small compared to an output based allocation method, which would further … reduce overallocation by 40 million allowances (29% of total cement sector free allocation). Firms responded …