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The impact of international organizations on the environment: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - 2006

When analyzing the impact of international organizations on the environment, two main issues arise. First, we have to quantify the participation of the organizations on countries they deal with. Second, the environmental impact of this involvement has to be measured. This paper attempts to do...

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Globalization and Protection of Employment

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Somogyi, Frank - 2009

Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests … globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it …

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2006

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization (compensation hypothesis). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze whether … globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we examine the …

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Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interaction and Fiscal Inflation : A Tale of Three Countries

Kliem, Martin - 2016

We study the impact of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy on the low-frequency relationship between the fiscal stance and inflation using cross-country data from 1965 to 1999. In a first step, we contrast the monetary-fiscal narrative for Germany, the U.S. and Italy with evidence...

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On the Economic Impact of International Sport Events : Microevidence from Survey Data at the Euro 2008

Lamla, Michael J.; Straub, Martin; Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2012

Using firm-level data for up to 707 Swiss hotels and restaurants we evaluate the economic impact of the EURO 2008 soccer championship. Although aggregated macro data reveal no economic impact, we report an overall negative effect based on the surveyed companies. Notably the reported effects of...

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Has globalisation increased inequality?

Dreher, Axel; Gaston, Noel - 2006

There has been no shortage of theories which purport to explain why globalisation may have, adverse, insignificant or even beneficial effects on income and earnings inequality. Surprisingly, the empirical realities remain an almost complete mystery. In this paper we use data on industrial wage...

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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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The impact of aid on growth revisited: Do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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Using Real-Time Data to Test for Political Budget Cycles

Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2012

We use real-time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...

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Regional Interest Rate Pass-Through in Italy

Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2012

This paper estimates the pass-through and speed of adjustment of Italian regional interest rates to changes in the money market rate for the period 1998Q1-2009Q4. Our main findings suggest that the markup for the lending rates that banks charge are generally higher in the South than in the...

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