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Which incentives work? An experimental analysis of incentives for trainers
Azfar, Omar; Zinnes, Clifford - The Field Experiments Website - 2006
One conjecture in the theory of incentives is that incentives based on broader outcomes may be better at motivating agents than incentives based on narrow measures. We designed an experiment to test these hypotheses using a ""prospective randomized evaluation procedure"" (PREP). We then apply...
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A New Explanatory Model for Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Schouwstra, Marije; Ellman, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257401
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A New Explanatory Model for Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Schouwstra, Marije; Ellman, Michael - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137325
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A New Explanatory Model for Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Schouwstra, M. C. - 2006
This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be quot;real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733238
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Managing for Development Results in the Dominican Republic
Guzman, Juan Pablo Martínez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
During the past 11 years, the Dominican Republic has introduced dozens of new laws and regulations aimed at modernizing its national management systems. The new rules represent a step forward in the implementation of Managing for Development Results (MfDR) techniques that will improve the...
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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008
intergovernmental grants on different types of personnel employed by the local governments. On the margin, we find a large, positive … effect of grants on the number of bureaucrats in the central administration, but no effects on the number of personnel in … that bureaucrats are able to, and do indeed, affect the allocation of grants within municipalities to support own goals. …
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USAGE OF ACB-MININD SOFTWARE IN THE CBA ANALYSIS FOR FINANCING INVESTMENT PROJECTS THROUGH EUROPEAN FUNDING IN CORRELATION WITH THE FINANCING FROM THE BANKING SYSTEM
Laurentiu, Droj; Gabriela, Droj - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 551-556
sources constitute from subsidies-grants and through banking system. One of the most important financing programme present in … Romania, available for SMEs is SOP IEC, which awards grants for investments proposed by production companies. This financing …
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Irreversible investment and information acquisition under uncertainty
Orset, Caroline - Économie Publique, Département Sciences Sociales, … - 2010
We analyse the decision of an agent to invest in new industrial activities the con- sequences of which on people's health and the environment are initially unknown. The agent does not have the possibility of delaying her/his investment but s/he gets the opportunity to acquire information in...
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Toolkit to estimate the organizational structure of Arctic industrial complexes
Tarasova, Olga - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Severe climatic conditions, low population density, lack of infrastructure leave as the only possible nodular economic development of Arctic territories of the Russian Federation. In this case, a natural question arises: how to define points of growth, how to delineate those "patches of economic...
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Impacts of a Micro-Enterprise Clustering Program on Firm Performance in Ghana
Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane; Strupat, Christoph - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
Widely considered as an important backbone of economies in developing countries, micro- and small enterprises face several constraints in doing business in Ghana. The creation of industrial zones (IZ) with improved access to infrastructure and secured land tenure is a potential remedy to promote...
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