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The World Bank's (WB) mission and overarching goal is to reduce poverty. Moving ahead, what can the WB do to enhance its contribution to the poverty reduction agenda? This question can be answered from at least two perspectives: the WB as a lending institution and the WB as a knowledge bank....
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of the central theory, including: activity level; errors; the costs of imposing fines; general enforcement; marginal …
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, strategic interaction, increasing and diminishing returns, scale and state capacity, surplus extraction, and Type I errors. The …
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performance. In that, our study also sheds a new light on how organizations may learn from (replication) errors. … economic settings (spatial replication) is an important strategy for organizational growth and performance improvement. In this … inaccurate replication. We identify conditions under which inaccurate replication can result in higher long-run performance than …
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Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach is
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The role of “errors in time” (Fanno, 1933) or “disappointment of expectations” (Hicks, 1933) was a major object of … rational expectations”. The paper shows how the focus on errors in time has been replaced in the latter period by a set of …
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The article focuses on the effects that type I errors can have on the incentives of firms to compete, collude or engage … in efficiency promoting socially beneficial cooperation. Our results confirm that in the presence of type I errors the … type I enforcement errors can have on social welfare when applied to the regulation of horizontal agreements. …
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In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: "which might be the 'best' method for eliciting such preferences?". It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that different...
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Several models of choice under uncertainty imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Our experiments explored whether people show patterns of intransitivity predicted by these models. To distinguish "true" violations from those produced by "error", a model was fit in which each...
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Recently proposed models of risky choice imply systematic violations of transitivity of preference. Five studies explored whether people show patterns of intransitivity predicted by four descriptive models. To distinguish ?true? violations from those produced by ?error,? a model was fit in which...
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