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Donor Ideology and Types of Foreign Aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877746
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Foreign Aid and Domestic Absorption
Temple, Jonathan; Sijpe, Nicolas Van de - CESifo - 2014
We introduce a new ‘supply-push’ instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948860
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Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme
Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - CESifo - 2011
Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient countries. However, hardly any empirical evidence exists on whether ex post rewards are effective in inducing reforms. We attempt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020789
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An Empirical Inquiry into the Nature of Welfarism
Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana - CESifo - 2011
Economists typically evaluate policies based on how such policies affect individuals’ utilities. We follow this approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA’s espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we take a nuanced view by investigating the type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833936
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The Pungent Smell of "Red Herrings": Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2010
volatility channel, may lead one to erroneously conclude that there is no effect of resources on growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596595
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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?
Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2010
Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534046
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The Volatility Curse: Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2009
The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling …. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of specifications. We unravel the effects of volatility by opening … dependence, physical and institutional barriers to trade and associated policy shocks increase volatility sharply and harm growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000394
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Systemic Crises and Growth
Ranciere, Romain; Tornell, Aaron; Westermann, Frank - CESifo - 2005
In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405758
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Trade, Trust and Institutions
Yu, Shu; Haan, Jakob de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - CESifo - 2011
To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294097
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the size and development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181473