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Who Gives Aid to Whom and When?: Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp … increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the … changes and wars are significant predictors of aid accelerations. Disaggregating aid flows by donors, we find indicative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220614
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The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions Are Really Being Measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277155
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Threat Perceptions in Europe: Domestic Terrorism and International Crime
Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
adopted European homelands. Thirdly, the economic discrimination against Muslims in Europe needs to be redressed. Finally, aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071055
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Who Gives Aid to Whom and When?: Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp … increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the … changes and wars are significant predictors of aid accelerations. Disaggregating aid flows by donors, we find indicative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147483
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Russia's Debt Crisis and the Unofficial Economy
Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P.; Lusinyan, Lusine; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963622
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Foreign Currency Borrowing: The Case of Hungary
Pellényi, Gábor; Bilek, Péter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661282
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On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing
Fratzscher, Marcel; Duca, Marco Lo; Straub, Roland - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy measures. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1), but not since 2010 (QE2), were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets in the US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662984
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Ramifications of Debt Restructuring on the Euro Area: The Example of Large European Economies' Exposure to Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The Greek government budget situation plays a central role in the debt crisis in the euro area. The debt to GDP ratio is above 150 percent, while the deficit to GDP ratio exceeds 10 percent. To re-establish the Maastricht criteria, respectively, strong consolidation measures need to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195631
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Foreign Currency Borrowing: The Case of Hungary
Pellényi, Gábor; Bilek, Péter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128104
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Sovereign Risk, Interbank Freezes, and Aggregate Fluctuations
Engler, Philipp; Steffen, Christoph Große - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper studies the bank-sovereign link in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with strategic default on public debt. Heterogeneous banks give rise to an interbank market where government bonds are used as collateral. A default penalty arises from a breakdown of interbank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128859