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Evidence-based policy or beauty contest? : an LLM-based meta-analysis of EU cohesion policy evaluations

Asatryan, Zareh; Birkholz, Carlo; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2024

Independent and high-quality evaluations of government policies are an important input for designing evidence-based policy. Lack of incentives and institutions to write such evaluations, on the other hand, carry the risk of turning the system into a costly beauty contest. We study one of the...

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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...

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Favoritism and firms : micro evidence and macro implications

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2021

We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources spatially within countries. We use a large sample of enterprise surveys spanning across many low and middle income countries, and utilize transitions of national political...

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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

convergence or economic cohesion, respectively. Following this strand of theory no regional policy is needed to achieve … convergence among the regions or nations of a common market. Thus, comparing the two internal markets, the question comes up if … inhibiting internal migration, which is one of the key measures in achieving convergence among the nations in the Single European …

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Biases in fiscal multiplier estimates

Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2019

The "true" size of fiscal multipliers is widely debated by economists and policy makers as large (small) multipliers provide arguments to expand (cut) public spending. Within a meta-analytical framework, we ask whether the large observed variance in multiplier estimates can be explained by the...

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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

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