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A note on the economics of philanthropy
This note starts with a short review of the economic literature on philanthropy. Next, it provides some estimates of philanthropic giving in advanced and middle-income economies and discusses how innovative financial instruments can leverage charitable giving. The note concludes with a discussion of the controversial aspects of philanthropic activities.
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 09/10/2017
Public good provision in Indian rural areas: the returns to collective action by microfinance groups
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. We provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public goods. Using a theoretical model, we show that an elected official, whose aim is to maximise re-election chances, would exert higher effort in providing public goods when private citizens undertake...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 06/10/2017
A reappraisal of state-owned banks
We revisit the public banks debate, survey the theoretical arguments and test the robustness (and expand) the existing empirical evidence. While we find some support for the view that public banks do not allocate credit optimally, we also report indicative evidence that they exert a positive influence on private bank efficiency, and may contribute to reduce credit procyclicality....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 03/10/2017
Comparative assessment for biogenic carbon accounting methods in carbon footprint of products: a review study for construction materials based on forest products
Institution partenaire
English / 25/09/2017
Mining online community data: the nature of ideas in online communities
Ideas are essential for innovation and for the continuous renewal of a firm’s product offerings. Previous research has argued that online communities contain such ideas. Therefore, online communities such as forums, Facebook groups, blogs etc. are potential gold mines for innovative ideas that can be used for boosting the innovation performance of the firm. However, the nature of...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/06/2017
Method and application of characterisation of life cycle impact data of construction materials using geographic information systems
Purpose: This research presents a methodology to characterize life cycle impact data (LCIA) of alternative construction materials outside of the European context.
Methods: This methodology was based on the characterization of data and life cycle assessment (LCA) using geographic information systems (GIS), which has been proposed as an effective alternative for this purpose. The...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges (Chapter 6)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Attitudes towards the role of innovation in promoting sustainable agriculture
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Coping with migration-induced urban growth: addressing the blind spot of UN habitat
The demography of cities in the 21st century will be shaped, to a large extent, by migration. This paper argues that the rights-based approach to urban policy advocated in the preparatory work of Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to be held in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, may not be conducive to this goal. The approach lacks a contextual...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/08/2016
When corporatism leads to corporate governance failure : the case of Swiss watch industry
Corporatism is often seen as the way Swiss stakeholders in business and politics handle industrial challenges in a reasonable and flexible way. The following publication argues, however, that the emergence of corporatist structures in the Swiss watch industry has often encouraged rent-seeking and collusion at the expense of the creation of new markets through innovation. This legacy...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/06/2016
Reference price formation for product innovations: the role of consistent price-value-relationships
When deciding between product alternatives, consumers have to compare the observed prices to their internal reference price to determine whether the offer is a good deal or not. For product innovations, for which no reference price has been established, it is unclear against which standard the observed price is compared. Despite extensive research on the use of reference prices,...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2016
The role of biotechnology in combating climate change: A question of politics?
Biotechnology is a platform technology that may significantly contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet biotechnology is hardly ever referred to as a ‘clean technology’. This paper investigates why biotechnology tends to be ignored in this context. A global stakeholder survey on biotechnology and climate change was conducted with 55 representatives of 44...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
Braving the waves: the role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal
This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time ans risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and coefficient of...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 15/01/2016
Forget "Unlearning": How an empirically unwarranted concept was allegedly imported from psychology to flourish in management and organisation studies
We provide a critique of the development in organisation studies of the idea of ‘unlearning’ as allegedly imported from the psychology literature by Hedberg and understood to mean the manageable discard of knowledge precedent to and aiding later learning. We re-review the psychology literature and in contrast to Hedberg, find that this definition of unlearning is not empirically...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Special Issue: A contextual and dynamic understanding of sustainable urbanisation
By 2030, sixty percent of the world’s population is projected to live in cities. The majority of this growth in urban areas is expected to occur in cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The transition from rural to urban life styles is likely to increase household consumption and will require massive investments in urban infrastructure.
How will society cope with this...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The Eurozone crisis: a consensus view of the causes and a few possible solutions
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 07/12/2015
Agricultural Biotechnology and Public Attitudes: An Attempt to Explain the Mismath between Experience and Perception
The main barriers to maximize the benefits and minimize the risk of modern agricultural biotechnology for society and the environment are not technical but regulatory in nature. Preventive regulation of agricultural biotechnology must be understood as a policy response to public rather than scientific concerns about the development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2015
On the construction of common size, value and momentum factors in international stock markets: A guide with applications
A major obstacle for research in international asset pricing and corporate finance has been a lack of reliable and publicly available data on international common risk factors and portfolios. To address this gap, we provide a step-by-step description of how appropriately screened data from Thomson Reuters Datastream and Thomson Reuters Worldscope can be used to construct high-quality...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/08/2015
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services : From Regulation to Innovation
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2015
Institutions, mobilization and rebellion in post-colonial societies
We revisit the simultaneous equations model of rebellion, mobilization, grievances and repression proposed by Gurr and Moore (1997). Our main contribution is to clarify and improve on the underlying identification strategy and to emphasize the role played by the institutional environment. Instrumental variables estimates for post-colonial societies reveal that the strength of the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 29/07/2015
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