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Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance : a better framework for evaluating cohesion policies

Heinemann, Friedrich; Asatryan, Zareh; Bachtrögler, Julia - 2024

By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …

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Leader behavior and the natural resource curse

Caselli, Francesco (contributor); … - 2009

We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy's total value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rents will alter the incentives of a political leader....

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MIDAS and bridge equations

Schumacher, Christian - 2014

This paper compares two single-equation approaches from the recent nowcast literature: Mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) regressions and bridge equations. Both approach are used to nowcast a low-frequency variable such as quarterly GDP growth by higher-frequency business cycle indicators. Three...