https://thesis.eur.nl/col/7033/ List of Publications en https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/61254/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:01 GMT <div>Arifka Yusri</div> Economists have talked about government expenditure and its relation with poverty, health, and education from decades ago. Indeed, many theories and empirical evidence have been conducted since then. This study aims to evaluate relationship between one type of government spending, Special Autonomy Fund (SAF), and poverty, health, and education indicators in Aceh province, Indonesia, using panel dataset of 30 provinces in 2002-2018 period. Synthetic Control Method (SCM) is used as the model, since it is commonly applied to the cases of policy intervention in comparative case studies. This paper discovers that the SAF lowers poverty rate, escalate access to safe sanitation, and improve net enrollment ratio of senior secondary school. Nevertheless, there is no prominent association between SAF allocation and access to safe water. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/61255/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:01 GMT <div>Bangun Canggih Wicara Putra</div> This research aims to evaluate the impact of a policy change of presumptive tax scheme and corruption on firm performance in Indonesia. The central government enacted a new presumptive tax regulation targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in 2013. The policy intends to attract small businesses to pay income tax and promote formalization. Additionally, we also assess the impact of corruption, comparing the effect of taxation, on firm productivity. Exploiting the panel data from WBES Indonesia in 2009 and 2015, along with fixed-effect regression models, we find that the presumptive tax scheme does not significantly have an impact on firm productivity. Although, it is confirmed that corruption is negatively and significantly affects firm productivity. This study also affirms that corruption has a greater influence, compared to taxation, on firm productivity. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/61256/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:01 GMT <div>Dina Pramudianti</div> Whether natural resource has positive or negative effect on social development indicator has been a long-standing debate between economists. Existing studies shows the mixed results with their own justification. I contribute to this topic by examining the effect of natural resource dependence on some health and education outcomes utilizing a large sample of Indonesian district’s data from 2007-2017. The empirical result indicates that there is positive and significant correlation between the mining rent per capita and the net enrolment ratio of senior secondary school, health expenditure and the percentage of birth attended by a skilled health labor. Even though the result is less robust, the mining rent per capita also has positive correlation with literacy rate, immunization rate and life expectancy (old method). The correlation between the share of people employed in mining and quarrying sector and the literacy rate are positive and significant. The government revenue dependences also almost do not have a robust correlation with education and health outcomes, except for negative correlation between oil revenue and life expectancy 2010-2017.Overall, I can conclude that the resource dependence in Indonesia mostly support education and health outcomes. The possible transmission channel on how natural resource dependence may affect education and health outcomes come from income, inequality and government institutional quality proxy. However, there is possibility of other transmission channel that is a little difficult to measure in district level due to the unavailability of the data such as, pollution and child labor. Extension of my study can take those variables into account and scrutinize more on the possibility of other transmission channel mechanisms. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/61257/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:01 GMT <div>Melisa Constantia</div> Using a firm-level dataset from the Indonesian large and medium manufacturing sector, this paper investigates the energy usage performance and the main factors that are related to carbon dioxide emission intensity of manufacturing firms, from 2011 to 2014. Although food, beverages; fabricated metal and machinery; and non-metallic mineral are three primary energy-intensive sectors, only the latter had high energy intensity. Meanwhile food industry and fabricated metal and machinery show low energy intensity due to their high value-added. This paper also presents an estimation of carbon dioxide emission due to fuels consumption of firms. During the period of study, the trend of carbon emission has increased, but the carbon emission intensity has shown improvement. Performing panel data framework, this study uses OLS, 2SLS, and fixed effect model in analysing the determinants of CO2 intensity. The result of the FE regressions suggests that larger firms are emission efficient compared to small sized firms. Similarly, capital and labor intensive firms are less-carbon intensive. Furthermore, firms that spend more on maintenance have emitted more. This perhaps due to the adoption of high maintenance equipment by emission-intensive firms that requires for more expanses. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/61259/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:01 GMT <div>Meriza</div> Green open space is very important for the functioning of an urban area. Moreover, it specifically remains a major United Nations target conveyed through the sustainable development goals. It may give significant contribution for environmental sustainability, safety, health, as well as for social and economic development. When green open space adequately provided, it offers multi-dimensional benefits to the community and substitutes to positively impact the property values. There are recent developments of green open space in Indonesia, including DKI Jakarta. This initiative aligns with an obligation as regulated by law no. 26/2007 on spatial planning to provide minimum 20% public green space of total urban area. The initiative of green open space continuously increased since 2015. It was recorded that 296 green open space has been built. This is a collaboration program between local government of DKI Jakarta and private sector to build a type of green space, with extra facilities specific for children. This research try to estimate the land value which can explain the house prices in the area of study with the existencies of green open space using hedonic pricing model. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/76169/ Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:01 GMT <div>Debora Lusiana Silalahi</div> Since the establishment of Indonesia’s Village Law in 2014, the village, as the lowest tier of regional government in Indonesia, has the autonomy to regulate its budget. A mandate of the Village Law is implementing the Village Fund program. As stated in the law, the objective of the Village Fund program is to improve the welfare and equity of village development. This research paper analyses the impact of the Village Fund on rural development in Simalungun District, in North Sumatera Province, which has significant economic potential. This empirical design relies on a difference-in-difference approach and panel data for 386 villages from 2014 to 2018. The Village Development index reflects rural development. The result indicates that Village Fund partially impacted the village development status by improving the quality of infrastructure and enhancing village government administration. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/71108/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:01 GMT <div>Wulansari, Indica</div> The role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the economy continues to be a topic of discussion. Numerous works have addressed the topic, but no consensus has emerged. When the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic happened, this discussion entered a new phase, as the pandemic pushed many offline activities to go online. It is interesting to examine whether ICT can play a role in increasing economic resilience during a pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is relatively recent, and most previous studies have studied the impact of ICT on economic resilience during the pandemic using data at the country level. Then, using district-level data in Indonesia, this research aims to contribute to the existing knowledge. In addition, this study employs several proxies for ICT penetration (internet penetration, mobile phone penetration, and internet speed), which can enhance the role of this research in prior studies. Using a panel data regression, this analysis revealed that the COVID19 pandemic and the restriction policy negatively impact economic performance. Moreover, it was discovered that ICT could be disruptive to the economy. Nonetheless, districts with more advanced ICT have greater economic resilience in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, policymakers can use the findings of this study to consider policies or other methods to alleviate the economic disruption caused by ICT and encourage ICT to contribute more positively to the economy. Furthermore, the Government can concentrate on enhancing the districts that remain below the threshold regarding internet penetration, mobile phone penetration, and internet speed as development's priority areas. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/76284/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:01 GMT <div>Muhammad Darisky Cherlanda</div>