The celebration of 25th anniversary of the Brazilian Symposium of Software Engineering (SBES) as well as the forthcoming Requirements Engineering Conference to be held in Brazil for the first time, has led us to have a closer look at the local Requirements Engineering (RE) Community. A systematic mapping was performed in order to find out the main Brazilian research groups, authors as well as t...

☆ The authors benefitted from the helpful suggestions b Behfar, AlanBeckenstein, JohnMclaren, Ariell Reshef, Jame Pravin Krishna (who saw an earlier version of the paper) Peter Debaere received research funds from the Darden F ⁎ Corresponding author at: Darden School of Business States. Tel.: +1 434 243 2339; fax: +1 434 243 7678. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. (H. Lee), jle...

During the financial crisis in Asian countries such as Thailand, macro-economic aggregates were used to portray the health or state of the impacted economy. Negative GDP growth was taken to indicate a fall in household welfare, for example. Initially high interest rate policies to encourage foreign (re)investment and subsequent expansionary monetary and fiscal policies were the result. On top o...

This paper explores the current evidence underlying the debate on aid effectiveness, with a specific focus on the health sector. It summarizes the history of aid and outlines the methodological challenges encountered when assessing its effectiveness. The current evidence on ‘what works’ in the different aid modalities is outlined, highlighting examples of success. The review finds that resource...

After the Second World War, both Greece and Italy experienced a Left-Right political polarization and a reproduction of earlier patterns of political patronage. Both Italy and Greece received international aid, including emergency relief, interim loans, and Marshall Plan funds. By the beginning of the 1950s, the Italian economy had recovered better from war destruction and had achieved industri...

This paper sets out a new approach to sovereign wealth and risk management, based on the theory of contingent claim analysis (CCA). To manage sovereign risk, it is essential to analyse the sovereign’s balance sheet. The state has to solve an asset-liability management (ALM) problem between its sources of income and its expenditure. The analytical framework for this approach covers all public en...

We consider the relation among the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s expectations for future inflation, the future gap between actual and potential output, and the future foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar. The coefficients of this relation are biased when relevant explanatory variables are omitted and/or when the included explanatory variables are measured with error. This pr...

This study examines the impact of economic globalization on the human trafficking inflows into the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries. The paper empirically tests for a cross-section of six countries, including Cambodia, the Yunnan Province of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PRD), Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Employing the Pooled OLS estimat...

Results in behavioral economics suggest that material incentives can crowd out motivation if agents are mission-oriented rather than self-interested. We test this prediction on a sample of nonprofit organizations in Sweden. Traditionally, the contract with the main principal (the Swedish foreign aid agency) has been based on trust and self-regulation. We designed an experimental policy interven...