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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis

Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018

We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We … are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural … gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the prominent issue of endogenous institutions. The empirical analysis …

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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Commodity price volatility, democracy and economic growth

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

. Our results hold true when using indicators capturing the quality of economic institutions in lieu of indicators of … political institutions. -- commodity prices ; volatility ; democracy ; economic growth …

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Information transmission and ownership consolidation in aid programs

Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - 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, project...

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Natural resource dependence and monopolized imports

Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana; Merchán, Federico; … - 2021

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...

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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements : should action in the EU and US be postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is significantly stronger in less democratic...

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Natural resources, volatility, and inclusive growth : perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa

Arezki, Rabah; Nabli, Mustapha K. - 2012

those countries to invest boldly in building inclusive institutions as well as high levels of human capacity in public …

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The effect of migration on terror : made at home or imported from abroad?

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul - 2017

We investigate whether the stock of foreigners residing in a country leads to a larger number of terrorist attacks on that country. Our instrument for the stock of foreigners relies on the interaction of two sets of variables. Variation across host-origin-dyads results from structural...

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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...

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