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On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023

The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …

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China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Gehring, Kai - 2019

China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that …

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China and the World Bank : How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart C.; Wong, Melvin H.L - 2019

China’s development model challenges the approaches of traditional, Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that … analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …, while World Bank projects strengthen democratic values …

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The politics of IMF forecasts

Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2007

Using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1999-2005 we empirically investigate the politics involved in IMF economic forecasts. We find a systematic bias in growth and inflation forecasts. Our results indicate that countries voting in line with the US in the UN General Assembly receive...

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IMF surveillance and financial markets: A political economy analysis

Fratzscher, Marcel; Reynaud, Julien - 2010

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...

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Property Rights to the World's (Linear) Ocean Fisheries in Customary International Law

Barrett, Scott - 2023

I model the ocean as an array of lines set within a two-dimensional frame, and show how the Exclusive Economic Zone emerged as an equilibrium in customary international law. I find that custom codifies the efficient Nash equilibrium of enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and...

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Elections and Policies : Evidence from the COVID Pandemic

Grechyna, Daryna - 2023

This paper examines the evolution of public policies before the scheduled political elections based on the government responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections during the first year of the pandemic suggest that...

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E-Globalization and Trade Agreements

McCalman, Phillip - 2023

The global success of online search engines and social media is due to their free access and high level of quality. However, these features are supported by a business model that exploits personal user data to provide targeted advertising services to third parties. Does this business model...

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Global Taxation and National Welfare States

Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023

This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the financing of national welfare states. In this context, it summarizes the theoretical predictions of various economic models of tax competition between countries and discusses the role...

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The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade

Ma, Sai; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2023

This paper provides evidence that the U.S. dollar affects countries’ exports through the financial channel of the exchange rate (Bruno and Shin (2015)). Using global data on trade between countries whose currency is not the U.S. dollar, it documents a positive relationship between the dollar...

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