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Membership has Its Privileges - The Effect of Membership in International Organizations on FDI

Dreher, Axel - 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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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010

social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs

Dreher, Axel - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors' choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely,...

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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence

Dreher, Axel - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...

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The Impact of Globalization on the Composition of Government Expenditures : Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel - 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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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth

Dreher, Axel - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries' political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy's...

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The Determinants of Election to the United Nations Security Council

Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D.; … - 2021

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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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021

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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