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Foreign influence and domestic policy : a survey
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019
influencing the policy choice by changing the political institutions in the target country (with or without a civil war). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987983
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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897628
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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021
This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326493
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Politics and IMF conditionality
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765008
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Does development aid increase military expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539046
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Buying votes and international organizations : the dirty work-hypothesis
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Rosendorff, B. Peter; … - 2018
organizations. We test this theory empirically by examining how the United States uses bilateral aid and IMF loans to buy other … 1960-2015 period, our results show that states allied with the US receive more bilateral aid when voting in line with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927941
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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work : Malawi's ITN distribution program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
evaluate one of Malawi's main malaria prevention campaigns, a nationwide insecticide-treated-net (ITN) distribution scheme, in … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966496
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Lessons from Voluntary Compliance Window (VCW) : Malawi's tax amnesty programme
Masiya, Michael - 2019
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) implemented the Voluntary Compliance Window (VCW) in 2013/2014 fiscal year as a …/16. The question remains "Should Malawi reconsider another Voluntary Compliance Window after 3 years?" The paper agrees with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992344
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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade
Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016
How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417707
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The Bounty of the Sea and long-run development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346874