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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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Who's afraid of foreign aid? : the donors' perspective

Chong, Alberto (contributor); … - 2006

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Determinants of pre-pandemic demand for the IMF’s concessional financing

Hills, Timothy; Nguyen, Huy; Sab, Randa - 2021

This study focuses on identifying the main factors that influenced country-specific and aggregate demand for IMF concessional financing between 1986 and 2018 and makes within-period and out-of-period forecasts. We find that the external debt level, inflation, and real effective exchange rate are...

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Economic and political liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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Fueling conflict? : (de)escalation and bilateral aid

Bluhm, Richard; Gassebner, Martin; Langlotz, Sarah; … - 2016

This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major contributions. First, we combine data on civil wars with data on low level conflicts in a new ordinal measure capturing the two-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second,...

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Regional and ethnic favoritism in the allocation of humanitarian aid

Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2018

International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle-income countries. While its allocation has been shown to be influenced by donors' foreign policy considerations, power relations within recipient countries have not been addressed. This...

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Hybrid historical simulation VaR and ES : performance in developed and emerging markets

Zikovic, Sasa; Filer, Randall Keith - 2009

; extreme value theory ; bootstrapping …

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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...

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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models

Chudik, Alexander (contributor); … - 2007

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Trade costs, market access and economic geography : why the empirical specification of trade costs matters

Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2007

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