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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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This paper considers factor estimation from heterogenous data, where some of the variables are noisy and only weakly informative for the factors. To identify the irrelevant variables, we search for zero rows in the loadings matrix of the factor model. To sharply separate these irrelevant...
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This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...
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