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Managing Momentum in Climate Negotiations
Carattini, Stefano; Löschel, Andreas - 2021
The Conference of the Parties (COP) has proven a valuable outlet to advance the climate agenda. The combination of high media coverage, extremely high expectations set by influential environmentalists, and unanimity rules has, however, started to limit its effectiveness. Technical issues can...
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Buying Votes and International Organizations : The Dirty Work-Hypothesis
Dreher, Axel - 2019
We show how major shareholders can exploit their power over international organizations to hide their foreign-policy interventions from domestic audiences. We argue that major powers exert influence bilaterally when domestic audiences view the intervention favorably. When domestic audiences are...
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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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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 membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers
Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...
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Membership has its privileges: The effect of membership in international organizations on FDI
Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010
We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...
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The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew; … - 2012
predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not …
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Do rankings reflect research quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2008
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
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Fighting multiple tax havens
Elsayyad, May; Konrad, Kai A. - 2010
This paper develops a competition theory framework that evaluates an important aspect of the OECD's Harmful Tax Practices Initiative against tax havens. We show that the sequential nature of the process is harmful and more costly than a 'big bang' multilateral agreement. The sequentiality may...
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It's a big world after all
Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2007
Thomas Friedman's book the world is flat has been a bestseller since it appeared in 2005. The remarkable success of the … argues that distance (however defined) is no longer a dominant characteristic of the world economy, or will cease to be so in …
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