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Costs of climate change : the effects of rising temperatures on health and productivity

Hübler, Michael; Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - 2007

The aim of the study is to quantify climate induced health risks for Germany. Based on high resolution climate scenarios for the period 2071 to 2100 we forecast the number of days with heat load and cold stress. The heat frequency and intensity increases overall but more in the south. Referring...

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Financial market development in host and source countries and its effects on bilateral FDI

Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

We estimate gravity-type models to assess the effects of financial market development in the host and source countries on bilateral FDI stocks. We address potential reverse causality, inter alia by performing instrumental variable estimations and restricting the sample to observations where...

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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid : did donors help sustain peace?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Liberalization and regulation of international capital flows : where the opposites meet

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

reject the view that financial globalization has deprived national policymakers of the means to protect their economies …

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Bilateral investment treaties do work : until they don't

Aisbett, Emma; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial academic and policy debate. Despite its importance, there has been very little work to date on the impacts of compensation claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host...

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How global is FDI? : evidence from the analysis of Theil indices

Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a few large and relatively advanced host countries. We calculate and decompose Theil indices to track changes in absolute and relative concentration of FDI during...

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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 - In: Review of development economics 21 (2017) 1, pp. 126-156

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Winning or losing in investor-to-state dispute resolution : the role of arbitrator bias and experience

Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

When an investor sues a state for alleged breaches of its obligations under an investment treaty or a trade agreement with investment provisions, all that should matter for who wins the case are the merits of the claim itself. Alas, investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) does not take place...

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Greenfield FDI, cross-border M&As and government size

Ashraf, Ayesha; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

This study examines the effects of greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on government size in host countries of FDI. Using panel data for up to 130 countries for the period from 2003-2011, the study specifically tests the compensation hypothesis, suggesting that by...

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