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Charitable giving for overseas development : UK trends over a quarter century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John; … - 2008
Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782549
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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : Evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor);  … - 2006
(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297706
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Telecommunications dynamics, output and employment
Jungmittag, Andre (contributor);  … - 2006
telecommunications could be improved in Germany and other EU countries. …In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384907
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Political institutions and the development of telecommunications
Andonova, Veneta (contributor);  … - 2007
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529158
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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418650
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Size matters : entrepreneurial entry and government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of variables related to protection of property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668035
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Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524338
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Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631
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Neoliberalization and the changing roles of stakeholders in state-led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China
Li, Xin; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to improve the living conditions of low-income residents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523167
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Creativity over time and space
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119562