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Modelling the fiscal effects of aid : an impulse response approach for Ghana
Morrissey, Oliver; Osei, Robert; Lloyd, Tim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the … potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth literature has addressed the effect of aid on … policy, it has tended to neglect the effect of aid on the fiscal behaviour of governments. While fiscal response models have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957411
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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957424
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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320459
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Modelling the Fiscal Effects of Aid: An Impulse Response Approach for Ghana
Morrissey, Oliver; Osei, Robert; Lloyd, Tim A. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the … potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth literature has addressed the effect of aid on … policy, it has tended to neglect the effect of aid on the fiscal behaviour of governments. While fiscal response models have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005468577
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Lobbying and political polarization
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
Standard spatial models of political competition give rise to equilibria in which the competing political parties or candidates converge to a common position. In this paper I show how political polarization can be generated in models that focus on the nexus between pre-election interest group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957344
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The World Bank as an International Financial Institution
Shams, Rasul - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods. If we take this interpretation seriously the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957355
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Project Aid or Budget Aid? The Interests of Governments and Financial Institutions
Hefeker, Carsten - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
The paper compares different aid policy instruments and their effect on the target group. Starting from a situation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957357
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The German Wind Energy Lobby : How to successfully promote costly technological change
Michaelowa, Axel - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
German wind power development is a technological success story but has involved very high subsidies. Germany was a latecomer in wind power but specific political conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the implementation of the feed in tariff regime which has characterised Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957451
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Project Aid or Budget Aid? The Interests of Governments and Financial Institutions
Hefeker, Carsten - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
The paper compares different aid policy instruments and their effect on the target group. Starting from a situation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320477
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The World Bank as an International Financial Institution
Shams, Rasul - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods. If we take this interpretation seriously the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801323