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 …

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

In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to …

on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and earnings and found a positive correlation … estimate the causal effect of Chinese Communist Party membership on monthly earnings in China. We find that, on average …, membership in the Communist Party of China increases monthly earnings and the wage premium has grown in recent years. We explore …

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 …