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Long-Run Determinants of Pollution : A Robustness Analysis

Lamla, Michael J. - 2009

This paper examines how robust economic, political, and demographic variables are related to water and air pollution. Employing Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) for a cross section of up to 74 countries, 33 variables and 3 proxies for air and water pollution over a period from...

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Trade, Aid, Remittances and Migration

Akkoyunlu, Sule - 2014

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish migration to Germany and tested the model for the...

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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

Campos, Nauro F. - 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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Measuring Macroeconomic Uncertainty : A Cross-Country Analysis

Dibiasi, Andreas - 2020

This paper constructs internationally consistent measures of macroeconomic uncertainty. Our econometric framework extracts uncertainty from revisions in data obtained from standardized national accounts. Applying our model to quarterly post-WWII real-time data, we estimate macroeconomic...

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Do IMF and World Bank Programs Induce Government Crises? An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2008

We examine whether and under which circumstances World Bank projects and IMF programs affect the likelihood of major … model specification, those of the World Bank are shown to be robust to the choice of control variables and method of …

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Does US Aid Buy UN General Assembly Votes? A Disaggregated Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2007

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973-2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

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Greasing the Wheels of Entrepreneurship? Impact of Regulations and Corruption on Firm Entry

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...

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Are 'New' Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid Between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries

Dreher, Axel - 2010

Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...

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Development Aid and International Politics : Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence World Bank Decisions?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2007

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank … temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for … economic and political factors, as well as regional and country effects. The size of World Bank loans, however, is not affected …

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The Impact of Political Leaders' Profession and Education on Reforms

Dreher, Axel; Lamla, Michael J.; Lein, Sarah M.; … - 2007

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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