With the growing interest and concerns about the concept of smart city, assessing the smart city gains increasing attention from government planners, policy makers and related researchers around the world. This paper aims to provide a critical review of metrics involving national frameworks,...

Governments everywhere are increasingly interested in assessing the effects of their policies and the effectiveness of public institutions, and competition agencies are no exception. This Reference Guide contains an in-depth overview of all the issues linked to ex-post assessments and contains...

This paper is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand spillover effects in program evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a field experiment to measure the average effects of...

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction: Identifying the Challenges -- Synthesis and Overview -- Part II: Evaluation: A Macro Perspective -- 1 Valuation and Evaluation -- Floor Discussion -- 2 Evaluation in a World of Complexity and...