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Dreher, Axel (contributor); Marchesi, Silvia (contributor); … - 2007

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Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...

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Buying votes and international organizations : the dirty work-hypothesis

Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Rosendorff, B. Peter; … - 2018

We show how major shareholders can exploit their power over international organizations to hide their foreign-policy interventions from domestic audiences. We argue that major powers exert influence bilaterally when domestic audiences view the intervention favorably. When domestic audiences are...

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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a …

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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF decisions? : evidence from panel data

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

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Inequality and happiness : when perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2010

social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find … ; World Values Survey …

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

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 …

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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility? : testing the effects of delegating powers

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Voigt, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

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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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Do markets care about central bank governor changes? : evidence from emerging markets

Moser, Christoph (contributor); Dreher, Axel (contributor) - 2007

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