This report undertakes qualitative market research to understand the appetite for different features of publicly financed debt products to support private sector innovation activity. The report undertook interviews with businesses, lenders and investors, and was completed in July 2016.

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents'scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses specially-designed surveys in three countries,...

Both qualitative and quantitative research routinely fall short, producing misleading causal inferences. Because these weaknesses are in part different, we are convinced that multi-method strategies are productive. Each approach can provide additional leverage that helps address shortcomings of...

We provide an overview of the common origins of qualitative and quantitative forms of STS, offering a discursive account of this history. We then demonstrate how scientometric techniques can be used to address substantive research questions, and we provide examples relevant both to the origins...

How accurate is a log-linear approximation of the New Keynesian model when the nominal interest rate is bounded by zero? This paper compares the solution of the exact non-linear model to the log-linear approximation. It finds that the difference is modest. This applies even for extreme events in...

Responding to increased calls for financial reporting researchers to “enter the field”, the goal of this article is to provide a basic primer on how to conduct field-based research using qualitative interview methods. We start by reviewing the extant, but limited, field research literature...