In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures fell by 11%. However, smaller firms with 5 to 99 employees planned to cut their...

In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures fell by 11%. However, smaller firms with 5 to 99 employees planned to cut their...

On 8-9 March 2018, the European Governance and Politics Programme (EGPP) at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies hosted its inaugural conference "2017: Europe's Bumper Year of Elections". The year 2017 saw a wave of key elections all across Europe,...

On 8-9 March 2018, the European Governance and Politics Programme (EGPP) at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies hosted its inaugural conference "2017: Europe's Bumper Year of Elections". The year 2017 saw a wave of key elections all across Europe,...

Donors have provided foreign aid in the form of budget support in order not only to promote growth and poverty reduction but increasingly also to strengthen domestic accountability in the recipient country. Yet, despite numerous studies and evaluations, little information has been provided on...

This article focuses on methodological challenges in evaluating complex program aid interventions like budget support. We show that recent innovations in process-tracing methodology can help solve the identified challenges and increase the strength of causal inference made when using case...