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Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

Unit Value of Net Asset to Mandatory Privately Managed Pension Funds in Romania during May 2008 - December 2015 [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2017
Since 1990, the public pension system in Romania has started to deal with special problems, inparticular demographic. To these were added and all funds due to lower pension payments. In thiscontext it was introduced in 2007 private pensions.
Colomeischi Tudor, Iancu Eugenia
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Financial Performance of Mandatory Private Pension Funds in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Study Between Romania and Slovakia [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2020
Decreased birth rate and aging population represent a treat to PAYG public pension systems implemented in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, due to the fact that the financing is direct dependent of the social contributions payed by the taxpayers ...
Nicolae Balteș, Ștefania Amalia Jimon
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International capital flows into private equity funds [PDF]

MAB, 2007
In this study the investment behavior of US institutional investors in selecting private equity funds isanalyzed. The results show that, while this group of investors predominantly selected US funds, their interest in directly investing in foreign ...
Armin Schwienbacher
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice, Katharina Zimmermann   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MARKET OF MANDATORY PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS IN ROMANIA [PDF]

Annals of the University of Craiova: Economic Sciences Series, 2016
Starting from 2008, Romania has a pension system that is based on three pillars: re-distributive type pension scheme (Pay As You Go) - Pillar I, mandatory private pension funds - Pillar II and facultative pensions - Pillar III. This system is inspired by
Gheorghe Matei, Constantin Durac
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Private Equity and the SEC after Dodd-Frank [PDF]

, 2015
A new report by Senior Economist Eileen Appelbaum of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows just how much the recnt SEC investigations of private equity funds has revealed and why it remains important to continue to regulate the ...
Eileen Appelbaum
core  

Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb, Alexander O. K. Marin, Jes Søgaard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pension funds, national savings and financial development: unpacking conditional effects using U.S. time series data

Cogent Economics & Finance
The relationship between pension funds and national savings (NS) varies depending on the existing level of savings within an economy. Similarly, the structural impacts of pension funds on financial development are influenced by these savings levels. This
Kazeem Abimbola Sanusi, Zandri Dickason-Koekemoer   +1 more
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Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk: Evidence From the Tourism Industry

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability performance (Refinitiv Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG] scores) on corporate risk (CR). We apply stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view to an international sample of 247 tourism firms from 2002 to 2018.
Omneya Abdelsalam, Antonios Chantziaras, Vassiliki Grougiou, Stergios Leventis, Nikolaos Tsileponis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source