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Regulatory Instruments and Their Effects on Investment Behavior
Burns, Phil; Riechmann, Christoph - 2013
Regulatory instruments have long been understood to have a powerful effect on investment, and part of the motivation … for introducing higher-powered regulatory regimes and contracts was to reduce incentives for inefficiency and over-investment … that make up a higher-powered regulatory regime can also lead to unintended distortions on investment behavior. The authors …
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Bank Involvement with SMEs : Beyond Relationship Lending
de la Torre, Augusto; Mart??nez Per??a, Mar??a Soledad; … - 2012
technologies, business models, and risk management systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552437
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Infrastructure Policy : Basic Design Options
Klein, Michael - 2013
The paper lays out basic design options for infrastructure policy. It first sketches mechanisms to asses demand. Then it sets out a hierarchy of issues starting with choice of market structure followed by conduct regulation. Ownership options are largely a function of market structure choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557147
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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects
Angelucci, M.; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a … such that they explain the cause of these effects and whom they affect. Such an evaluation design is necessary to avoid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564541
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A Poverty-Focused Evaluation of Commodity Tax Options
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012
desirable options for commodity taxation in the context of a poverty reduction strategy. Within the logic of social evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552693
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Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The author critically reviews the methods available for the ex-post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households, or locations. The discussion covers both experimental and non-experimental methods (including propensity-score matching, discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554263
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Talk or Text? : Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; … - 2022
Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, this study randomly selected about 600...
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The Quality of Foreign Aid : Country Selectivity or Donors Incentives?
Wane, Waly - 2013
The author investigates the determinants of foreign aid quality. He shows that design effects are a crucial component of quality. He thus establishes that donors have an impact on the quality of the foreign assistance they provide. The author also shows both theoretically and empirically that...
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School Resource and Performance Inequality : Evidence from the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Parandekar, Suhas - 2014
This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became more unequal over time. Strikingly, a large portion of the...
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Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies : Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation
Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick; Vakis, Renos - 2012
improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed … vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …
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