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Public investment in developing countries: A blessing or a curse?
Cavallo, Eduardo; Daude, Christian - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of public investment on private investment in panel of 116 developing countries between 1980 and 2006 using dynamic panel data techniques, finding a strong and robust crowding-out effect that seems to be the norm rather than the exception, both across regions and...
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Privatisation and renationalisation: What went wrong in Bolivia's water sector?
Hailu, Degol; Osório, Rafael Guerreiro; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the … examine the pre- and post-privatisation periods. Close inspection of the household surveys reveals that access to water by low …This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293309
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Trade in Energy Services: GATS and India
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goswami, Ramneet - 2009
Energy plays a vital role in the development of any economy and given its unequal distribution trade in energy, especially fossil fuels, is an important component of international trade. In the past, due to its public good characteristics, energy-related services were mostly supplied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807637
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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement
Gawel, Erik - 2011
The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306845
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Input control and random choice: Improving the selection process for journal articles
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
The process by which scholarly papers are selected for publication in a journal is faced with serious problems. The referees rarely agree and often are biased. This paper discusses two alternative measures to evaluate scholars. The first alternative suggests input control. The second one...
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A study of the financial health of the telecom sector
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Sekhani, Richa - 2019
India's telecom sector is one of the largest and fastest growing networks across the globe. The increase in subscriptions has been nothing short of dramatic. Increasingly consumers are using phones to decrease transaction costs, access information and become more productive. Data price has...
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Rising stars
Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273940
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Attaining autonomy in the Empire: French governors between 1860 and 1960
Viallet-Thévenin, Scott; Chambru, Cédric - 2020
colonial governors between 1830 and 1960. We consider empires as the by-product of social entities structuring themselves … examine how variations in the recruitment of these high civil servants actually reflect the empowerment of this social entity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294280
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The Contribution of the European Cohesion Policy to the 2030 Agenda: an Application to the Autonomous Region of Sardinia
Cavalli, Laura; Sanna, Sandro; Alibegovic, Mia; Arras, … - 2020
is one of the most transversal policies of the European Union, including not only economic cohesion but also the social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419712