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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets

Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020

International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...

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Country or leader? : political change and UN general assembly voting

Dreher, Axel; Jensen, Nathan M. - 2009

In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United … Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting …’s voting with the United States. In this paper we explore how leadership change affects UNGA voting. Using differences between …

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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...

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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

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The politics of IMF forecasts

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

economic forecasts. We find a systematic bias in growth and inflation forecasts. Our results indicate that countries voting in …

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Terrorism and cabinet duration : an empirical analysis

Gassebner, Martin (contributor); … - 2007

We examine the relationship between terrorism and cabinet duration. Our data set includes more than 2,400 cabinets in over 150 countries in the period 1968-2002. We find a small, but significant effect of terrorism on the probability of government failure. Furthermore, we find that the impact of...

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Do IMF and World Bank programs induce government crises? : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2008

We examine whether and under which circumstances World Bank projects and IMF programs affect the likelihood of major government crises. Using a sample of more than 90 developing countries over the period 1970-2002, we find that crises are on average more likely as a consequence of Bank and Fund...

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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect

Campos, Nauro; Gassebner, Martin - 2009

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...

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The impact of political leaders' profession and education on reforms

Dreher, Axel; Lamla, Michael J.; Lein-Rupprecht, Sarah M.; … - 2006

This paper analyzes whether the educational and professional background of a head of government matters for the implementation of market-liberalizing reforms. Employing panel data over the period 1970-2002, we present empirical evidence based on a novel data set covering profession and education...

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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from international financial...

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