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Trade-offs in Achieving Human Development Goals for Bangladesh

Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2014

reallocating public spending from infrastructure investment to human development sectors in Bangladesh is small. …

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European capitals of culture and life satisfaction

Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S.; Hotz, Simone - 2013

This paper analyzes whether hosting the most prestigious European cultural event, the European Capital of Culture, has an impact on regional economic development or the life satisfaction of the local population. Concerning the economic impact, we show that European Capitals are hosted in regions...

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Willingness to pay for private and public improvements of vulnerable road users' safety

Andersson Järnberg, Linda; Andrén, Daniela; … - 2021

of public goods are lower than valuations of private goods, contrary to theory predictions. This study elicits the …

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Industrialization, exports and the developmental state in Africa: The case for transformation

wa Githinji, Mwangi; Adesida, Olugbenga - 2011

This essay explores the role of the state in promoting exports and industrialization in the quest for transformation of African economies. It does this by exploring the role of trade in African economies followed by a brief look at the East Asian Developmental state. This is followed by an...

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Dynamic Regulation of Public Franchises with Imperfectly Correlated Demand Shocks

Buso, Marco; Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - 2023

In a continuous-time setting, we study the design of a dynamic contract between a government and a private entity, wherein the latter commits to pay the government in return for the exclusive right to sell a service by operating a public facility. Private revenues are modelled as depending on...

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Optimal Public Investment in Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries

Algozhina, Aliya - 2020

Recent studies have found that resource-rich low-income countries are better off investing their resource revenues domestically rather than saving them abroad in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This paper finds an optimal rule-based policy of accumulating public capital and its associated public...

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Deficient public infrastructure and private costs: evidence from a time-use survey for the water sector in India

Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2008

This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to … the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work …, with evident gender differentials. The results also suggest that access to public infrastructure can lead to substitution …

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Highway to Hitler

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014

Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship …

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Termination fees and contract design in public-private partnerships

Buso, Marco; Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - 2018

We study the effects of granting an exit option that enables the private party to early terminate a PPP project if it turns out to be loss-making. In a continuous time setting with hidden information about stochastic operating profits, we show that a revenue-maximizing government can optimally...

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Effects of government investment shocks on private investment and income in India

Mallick, Jagannath - 2016

heterogeneous effect of public investment as regards to infrastructure. Hence, I divide government investment into infrastructure vs … non-infrastructure. The study uses structural vector auto-regressions (SVAR) and impulseresponse- functions analysis to … investment, which is mainly due to the non-infrastructure part of government investment. Private investment has a larger effect …

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