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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence

Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001

whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and … community is presumably less effective in promoting empowerment rights. -- human rights ; globalization ; economic freedom …

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The impact of product and labour market reform on growth : evidence for OECD countries based on local projections

Haan, Jakob de; Wiese, Rasmus - 2020

This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...

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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis

Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020

This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...

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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2006

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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 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 bureaucracyś...

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Coherence of output gaps in the euro area : the impact of the Covid-19 shock

Haan, Jakob de; Jacobs, Jan; Zijm, Renske - 2022

Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...

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Does conditionality work? : a test for an innovative US aid scheme

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2011

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient countries. However, hardly any empirical evidence exists on whether ex post rewards are effective in inducing reforms. We attempt...

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