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Moral hazard and the composition of transfers : theory with an application to foreign aid

Amegashie, J. Atsu (contributor); … - 2007

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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?

Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...

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Do foreign aid transfers distort incentives and hurt growth? : theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Kalyvitēs, Sarantēs; … - 2004

In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities. We construct a model of a small growing open economy that distinguishes two effects from foreign transfers: (i) a direct positive...

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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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Outsourcing in contests

Meland, Frode (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2006

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing increases competition between the contestants, leading...

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Moral hazard and the composition of transfers : theory with an application to foreign aid

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Strobl, Eric - 2009

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Migration, tied foreign aid and the welfare state

Hatzipanayotou, Panos (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we highlight aspects related to the links between international migration, foreign tied aid and the welfare state. We model migration as a costly movement from an aid-recipient developing country with low income, poor infrastructure, and no welfare system, towards a rich donor,...

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Risk, temptation, and efficiency in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma

Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2021

The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how a PD’s material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD...

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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources

Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016

The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that …-market aspirations - and forces the elite to expand redistribution. Along the lines of this trade-off, our theory provides a Lipsetian … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative …

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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