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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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Paying Them to Hate Us : The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen - 2020
Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...
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Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with “no strings attached,” a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional...
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Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms
Martin, Simon; Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2021
Sophisticated collusive compensation schemes such as assigning future market shares or direct transfers are frequently observed in detected cartels. We show formally why these schemes are useful for dampening deviation incentives when colluding firms are temporary asymmetric. The relative...
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NGO's and Donors' Funding : Evidence from Uganda
Bougheas, Spiros; Isopi, Alessia; Owens, Trudy - 2022
We develop a screening model to analyse the funding allocation criteria of institutional donors towards NGOs. The model shows that when donors care about efficiency, they screen NGOs and concentrate their funding on those that comply. Combining two waves, 2002 and 2008, of a unique survey data...
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The Risks of Nation-Building Through Military Aid and Intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
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Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance
Wellner, L; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Brad; … - 2022
Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
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The Brexit Conundrum Worsens the UK's Relationship with the European Union
Ryan, John T - 2019
government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic politics, over negotiations with the EU27. Brexit negotiations were poorly … Ireland, as debate grows around the prospect of a united Ireland inside the EU. UK politics is in turmoil and in a chronic … October 2019 with no deal or it finds a route towards an accommodation with the EU. The phenomenon of British exceptionalism …
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Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence
Mikolajun, Irena - 2018
leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate the consequences of this event for EU integration. In particular …, we analyze how the extent of EU economic integration would change once the UK leaves the Union. To that end we develop an … in the EU is incomplete and its trend is non-linear while Brexit would not bring negative consequences to its development …
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Quantifying Brexit : From Ex Post to Ex Ante Using Structural Gravity
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2020
general equilibrium model that captures inter- and intranational production networks. We isolate three important layers of EU … integration for the UK: First, we distinguish directional treatment heterogeneity in the relation between the UK and the EU27 … economies. Second, we disentangle tariff and non-tariff barriers in EU agreements affecting the UK, which show differential …
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