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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

Cruzatti C., John - 2020

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...

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Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Bluhm, Richard - 2020

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...

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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

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The Devil is in the Shadow : Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or Only Official Income and Official Productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Meon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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Does High Inflation Cause Central Bankers to Lose Their Job? Evidence Based on a New Data Set

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; de Haan, Jakob - 2021

This paper introduces new data on the term in office of central bank governors in 137 countries for 1970-2004. Our panel models show that the probability that a central bank governor is replaced in a particular year is positively related to the share of the term in office elapsed, political and...

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Does conditionality work? A test for an innovative US aid scheme

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 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...

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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2006

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence, governments shift their expenditures in favour of transfers and subsidies and away from capital expenditures. This expenditure shift is potentially enhanced...

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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF decisions?: evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2006

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using panel data for 191 countries over the period 1951 to 2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in...

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Does terror threaten human rights?: evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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