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The potential contribution of the shipping sector to an efficient reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions

Heitmann, Nadine; Peterson, Sonja - 2012

combined with a MACC for conventional CO2 abatement in the production and consumption sectors around the world. These two MACCs …

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Fair, optimal or detrimental? : Environmental vs. strategic use of border carbon adjustment

Weitzel, Matthias; Hübler, Michael; Peterson, Sonja - 2012

We carry out a detailed sensitivity analysis of border carbon adjustment (rates) by applying a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) GTAP7-based model. We find different incentives for the regions in the climate coalition to raise carbon-based border tax rates (BTAX) above the standard...

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Financing for development : the gap between words and deeds since Monterrey

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2011

of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders …

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Are "new" donors different? : comparing the allocation of bilateral aid between nonDAC and DAC donor countries

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 39 (2011) 11, pp. 1950-1968

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Income inequality and health : new evidence from panel data

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2011

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health suffer from significant biases due to (i) omitted country-specific factors, (ii) endogeneity, and (iii) cross-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using...

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Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature

Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 56 (2014), pp. 172-199

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A new global index on infrastructure : construction, rankings and applications

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …

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Are stricter investment rules contagious? : host country competition for foreign direct investment through international agreements

Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, Martin - 2014

We argue that the trend toward international investment agreements (IIAs) with stricter investment rules is driven by competitive diffusion, namely defensive moves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting...

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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation : other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012

empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …

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