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Contents: Preface -- 1. Setting the scene -- 2. How did the idea of PPPs arise? -- 3. Exploring what PPPs can and cannot do -- 4. Can PPPs ever be good value? -- 5. Why choose a PPP? -- 6. Ppps and megaprojects -- 7. Where to now for PPPs? -- 8. Conclusions references Index
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We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of nearly 30,000 hotels in different countries. We find that BPCs influence the pricing and availability of hotel rooms across online sales channels. In particular, the abolition of Booking.com's...
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The treatment effect of a Swedish employment subsidy is estimated using exact covariate-matching and instrumental variables methods. Our estimates suggest that the programme had a positive treatment effect for the participants. We also show how non-parametric methods can be used to estimate the...
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Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …
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This paper presents a methodology to integrate cost-benefit analysis and SAM-CGE-based impact evaluation. While the two … approaches should be integrated for complex investment projects, since their economic evaluation cannot rely solely on the … partial equilibrium assumptions of cost-benefit (CB) analysis. Unlike CB analysis, impact evaluation looks at the economy as a …
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Preface -- 1 An Introduction to the Econometrics of Program Evaluation -- 2 Methods Based on Selection on Observables … in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences. The author presents a comprehensive toolbox for designing … rigorous and effective ex-post program evaluation using the statistical software package Stata. For each method, a statistical …
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