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The Alma Mater effect : does foreign education of political leaders influence foreign policy?
Dreher, Axel; Yu, Shu - 2016
We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). We hypothesize that "affinity" - pre-existing or developed while studying abroad - makes leaders with foreign education more likely to...
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What does network analysis teach us about international environmental cooperation?
Carattini, Stefano; Fankhauser, Samuel; Gao, Jianjian; … - 2021
France and Germany have been the most strategic players to broker environmental cooperation. Fourth, international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547019
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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014
America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have … strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue … project could increase per capita income in Germany by between 1 and 3%. We critically question the need for investor …
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377296
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948233
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688912
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The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew; … - 2012
predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571740
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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764976
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Reform of the United Nations Security Council : equity and efficiency
Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2014
Twenty years of negotiations over reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are yet to bear fruit. We use recent advances in the theory of a-priori voting power to present a formal quantitative appraisal of the "structural reforms" contained within eleven current reform proposals, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358266
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Equitable representation in the councils of the United Nations : theory and application
Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew - 2013
We develop a theoretical framework for equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a fully representative voting body delegates decision-making to a subset of the members, as describes, e.g., the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Three equity concepts are proposed: ex-ante...
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