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Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...

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Buying Votes and International Organizations

Dreher, Axel; Vreeland, James Raymond - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...

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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2015

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country in that year. We thereby want to assess to … what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid …

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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2013

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …

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On the Norms of Charitable Giving in Islam: A Field Experiment

Lambarraa, Fatima; Riener, Gerhard - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012

Charitable giving is one of the major obligations Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses giving to the needy, but discourages public displays of giving. This norm is puzzling in light of previous evidence, suggesting that making donations public often increases giving. We use an experiment to...

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