This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with …

sanction closes this gap. This has important implications for understanding the effect of institutions in developing societies …

consumption world wide. Two effects are at issue: a utility loss from forgone consumption and a utility gain from lowered …

, an appropriately designed MAI is world-welfare superior compared to a regime of BITs by alleviating the lobbying …

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …

predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not …

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 …