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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283619
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Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007
world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the …
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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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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Mimic Model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
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Government Spending Efficiency in Latin America
Fraga, Gabriel Baquero; Afonso, António - 2022
We assess the public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000-2019, computing Data Envelopment Analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio-economic indicators, and for the input measure we...
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