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Budget Institutions and Government Effectiveness
Dahan, Momi; Strawczynski, Michel - 2016
Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...
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Flood Risk and Insurance Take-up in the Flood Zone and Its Periphery
Petkov, Ivan; Ortega, Francesc - 2024
Many studies have investigated flood risk and insurance coverage in the 100-year flood zone, but much less is known about the periphery of the flood zone. We present a new approach to estimate flood risk and insurance take-up in the vicinity of the flood zone based on building-level inundation...
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To Improve Is to Change? The Effects of Risk Rating 2.0 on Flood Insurance Demand
Ortega, Francesc; Petkov, Ivan - 2024
We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk Rating 2.0, using individual insurance histories for all NFIP policies. The reform increased exit and reduced entry, both in the flood zone and its periphery. The reform had highly...
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An environment conducive to bureaucratic innovation? Exploring the potential for public entrepreneurship within FEMA
Rivera, Jason D.; Landahl, Mark R. - In: Journal of Urban Management 8 (2019) 2, pp. 272-281
innovation. This study examines the presence of contextual factors shown to encourage public entrepreneurship within FEMA, which … are also applicable to local urban governance. FEMA has long been argued as ineffective and resistant to organizational … change. Using a sample of FEMA employees, this study finds that most FEMA employees perceive the organization to be open to …
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How bad are weather disasters for banks?
Blickle, Kristian; Hamerling, Sarah N.; Morgan, Donald P. - 2021
Not very. We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks' performance. This stability seems endogenous rather than a mere reflection of federal aid. Disasters increase loan demand, which offsets losses and actually boosts profits at...
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Do mortgage lenders respond to flood risk?
Blickle, Kristian; Perry, Evan; Santos, João A. C. - 2024
flood risk that is not captured in FEMA flood maps. We find that lenders are less willing to originate mortgages and charge … aware of flood risk outside FEMA's identified flood zones. …
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
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Boom & Bust. Local strategy for big events. A community survival guide to turbulent times
Van Assche, Kristof; Deacon, Leith; Gruezmacher, Monica; … - 2017
Boom and Bust: Local strategy for big events is the result of a collective effort at the University of Alberta to better understand the dramatic ups and downs which too often characterize western Canadian communities. From the Canadian analysis stems this book, which can be helpful in any...
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Approaches to Public Integrity
Ulman, Simona-Roxana - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 2, pp. 340-356
Both concepts, integrity and public integrity, are always asked qualities in the social and economic environment, but they are never well defined. In this context, finding precise definitions and offering an ample explanation of the concepts are desired and useful for both economic theoretical...
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O futuro do Estado no Brasil e seus impactos na sociedade: Questões para o desenvolvimento até 2035
Lima, Raphael Camargo; Curado, Maurício Pinheiro Fleury - 2017
In Brazil, it has been difficult to elaborate governmental planning surpassing the four-year spectrum from the Pluriannual Plans. Despite the fact of long-term planning attracting a wide range of sectors, it still occupies a small space in both political and State agendas. Hence, the present...
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