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Do natural disasters affect household saving? : evidence from the August 2002 flood in Germany
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2024
Recently, there is a growing interest in understanding how individuals adapt to changing climate conditions and climate-induced extreme weather events, An underexplored question is whether and how climate-related natural hazards affect household saving behavior, For this purpose, we exploit a...
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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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The impact of German public support transfers on firm finance : evidence from the Covid-19 crisis
Gärtner, Leo; Marek, Philipp - 2022
The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...
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Programs and evaluation
Fallis, George - 1983
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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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How do different compensation schemes and loss experience affect insurance decisions? : experimental evidence from two independent and heterogeneous samples
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2020
Although natural hazard insurance is advocated as an important means of risk management, private insurance demand often remains below critical levels. Prior loss experience and the design of governmental relief schemes are two factors potentially influencing insurance decisions. We address these...
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Foreign aid and revenue response : an examination of joint General Budget Support
Knoll, Martin - 2011
The present paper explores the extent to which new joint General Budget Support (GBS) systems have been able to overcome the problems of aid dependency and negative fiscal incentives that can potentially result from high levels of on-budget aid. As approximately 90 percent of new joint GBS goes...
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The differential effects of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa
Akame, Afuge; Mavrotas, George - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2024
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A note on charitable giving by corporates and aristocrats : evidence from a field experiment
Bassi, Vittorio; Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran - 2016
Multiple sources of funding are becoming increasingly important for charitable organizations. Donations from corporate donors for example account for 25-35% of charitable income for the largest US charities, across charitable sectors. This note presents some tentative first evidence from a...
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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?
Adena, Maja; Harke, Julian - 2021
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable appeals were updated to include a reference to COVID-19. Did donors increase their giving in response to such changes? In order to answer these questions, we conducted a...
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