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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800710
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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of production possibilities to illuminate the possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048370
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857142
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355147
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199746
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301201
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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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The devil is in the shadow :do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?
Dreher, Axel (contributor);  … - 2007
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