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From friends to foes : national identity and collaboration in diverse teams

Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world’s largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …

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Pastoral conflicts and (dis)trust : evidence from Nigeria using an instrumental variable approach

Tuki, Daniel - 2023

Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen significantly during the last decade, no study has, to the best of my knowledge, examined how these conflicts influence distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and the...

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Assessment of German-Pakistani relations in trade, investment and strategic cooperation

Mahmood, Talat - 2014

German-Pakistani relations cannot be analyzed in isolation of the larger domestic and international trajectories, economic and political, on both sides of the partnership. After a recent democratic power transfer in 2013, Pakistan continues to face complex challenges. The instable security...

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Foreign aid and revenue response : an examination of joint General Budget Support

Knoll, Martin - 2011

The present paper explores the extent to which new joint General Budget Support (GBS) systems have been able to overcome the problems of aid dependency and negative fiscal incentives that can potentially result from high levels of on-budget aid. As approximately 90 percent of new joint GBS goes...

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The political economy of multilateral aid funds

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2016

In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...

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Chinese aid in Africa : attitudes and conflict

Sardoschau, Sulin; Jarotschkin, Alexandra - 2023

This study examines Chinese aid projects’ impact on conflict and perceptions of China in 820 African districts from … 2000 to 2012. We show that a 10% increase in Chinese aid projects results in a 6% increase in conflict incidents. This rise … Africans attribute the rise in conflict to the interaction of resource influx and local politics, rather than to China itself …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …

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The good governance indicators of the millennium challenge account : how many dimensions are really being measured

Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - 2011

This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...

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A thousand words tell more than just numbers: Financial crises and historical headlines

Ristolainen, Kim; Roukka, Tomi; Nyberg, Henri - 2021

We show that financial crises are preceded by changes in specific types of narrative information contained in newspaper article titles. Our novel international dataset and the resulting empirical evidence are gathered by integrating information from a large panel of economic news articles in...

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Yield-Curve Based Probit Models for Forecasting U.S. Recessions: Stability and Dynamics

Kauppi, Heikki - 2008

Recent research provides controversial evidence on the stability of yield-curve based binary probit models for forecasting U.S. recessions. This paper reviews so far applied specifications and presents new procedures for examining the stability of selected probit models. It finds that a...

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