gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership …This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the …-EU FDI. Moreover, we find that the effect of EU membership on FDI is larger than from membership of NAFTA, EFTA, or MERCOSUR …

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by … the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

States. Micro-data is also used to model union membership in a further eleven non-OECD countries. Union density is found to …

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 …