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Special Workshop on "Evaluation and Modelling of Rural Development Policies"

Recently, the importance of comprehensive policy evaluation has been increasingly recognized by international organizations, e.g. the World Bank, OECD, FAO and especially by the EU. Given that a comprehensive policy evaluation is a very complex methodological challenge it is nowadays still fair to conclude that the application of adequate evaluation tools continues to be rare in EU evaluation practice, e.g. presently applied techniques for the evaluation of EU rural development policies are clearly lagging behind the ambiguous evaluation targets set by the EU-Commission.

Objectives of the workshop

In this regard the workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary scholars working in the field of quantitative policy evaluation at the micro or macro level. In order to facilitate discussion of the recently developed evaluation methodologies and their applicability in the context of EU programmes and evaluation structure (ex-ante, mid-term, ex-post, on-going), the presented evaluation techniques are further subdivided in the following three sections: 1. Micro-econometric evaluation techniques, 2. Macro-econometric evaluation techniques and 3. Micro-macro modelling approaches.
  1. Advanced micro-econometric evaluation techniques including the topics ‘Propensity Score Matching’, ‘Generalized Matching’ as well as ‘Parametric Econometric Approaches’.
  2. Advanced macro-econometric evaluation techniques including in particular work on evaluation of policy effects at the regional and national level applying non-parametric and parametric econometric estimation approaches.
  3. Micro-macro-modelling including linked general and partial equilibrium models, but also linked agent-based modelling and CGE approaches.

Target Group

The workshop is designed for leading experts and interdisciplinary scholars in the empirical or theoretical research on quantitative policy evaluation.

Workshop Participation

Participation is by invitation only. To apply for participation please send a full paper to: uschwarz@agric-econ.uni-kiel.de until 15. May 2009. Final decisions on participation will be communicated by 30. May 2009. Participation includes free workshop materials, full board, and lodging as well as travel costs.