European Union (EU) funding for United Nations (UN) organisations has expanded significantly over the last two decades. The EU’s partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an important example of EU-UN cooperation, and UNDP was the fourth-largest UN recipient of...

China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that. Using fixed effects and IV estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in...

Das vorliegende Papier präsentiert das Konzept der Verbriefung von Versicherungsrisiken (insurance-linked securities) anhand von Catastrophe Bonds. In einem ersten Teil wird das traditionelle Versicherungsgeschäft vorgestellt und auf dessen Hauptproblematiken eingegangen. In einem zweiten Teil...