Since the dawn of the concept of nation-states, many nations have been planning their economies to increase people's prosperity and standard of living. All economies have a centralised feature where decisions are taken. But data collection and plan implementation has been cumbersome because of...

Microfinance is largely seen as a tool for promoting economic growth, and poverty reduction. It involves the supply of financial services on a micro scale to low income earners usually operating in the informal sector and located in rural and semi-urban communities. In Nigeria, microfinance...

Jährlich werden rund 54,9 Milliarden Euro für die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe (KJH) verausgabt (Stand 2018). Diese verteilen sich jedoch nicht homogen auf die Gemeinden in der Bundesrepublik, sondern je nach sozialen Herausforderungen. Dabei fehlt es an einer interkommunalen Vergleichbarkeit der...

Before the 2007-2008 financial crisis, credit institutions were assured (though not officially or formally) that if they were large enough they would be rescued with tax-payers’ money, an action also known as bail-out, denoting what became known as the “too big to fail” paradigm. The...

Die vorliegende Studie identifiziert anhand von vier internationalen Good-Practice Beispielen innovative Ansatzpunkte für die Mittelstandspolitik. Die dargestellten Maßnahmen beziehen sich auf die traditionelle Mittelstandspolitik, wie die Verankerung einer Kultur der Selbstständigkeit...

Part 2 In the second part of the paper concrete forms and examples of the effects of incentives on the social preferences are shown and experiments are described where these effects occur. The authors claim that the negative consequences of the incentives are connected less to the incentives...

Public policy setting often involves quantitative choices with quantitative outcomes. Yet unqualified statements about the precise consequences of alternative choices characterize much of the policy analysis bearing on these decisions. Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions...

Part 1 Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than would be predicted among entirely self-interested individuals. This may occur when incentives adversely affect...

Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify the behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions,...