We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....

This paper analyzes how international rules are established and stabilized, i.e. how an international institutional order develops. Rules emerge mainly through learning from negative experience and serve to reduce transaction costs. The paper looks at mechanisms that stabilize rule systems, at...

The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...

1. Introduction -- 2. Exploring the reasons behind the adoption of international norms -- 3. Closing the implementation gap with Transnational Experience and Expertise Networks -- 4. Local Content policies: aiding or harming internationalization? -- 5. The international norm on world-class...

Ein Blick auf die Welt -- Konfrontation statt Kooperation in der Welt vor Covid-19: Vom Systemwettbewerb zum Systemkonflikt -- Ökonomische Einordnungen zu Covid-19: Globalisierung im Lockdown -- Transformation im Systemkonflikt: Die Stunde der Hierarchien -- Perspektiven der Globalisierung:...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Regional Competitiveness Index (UFR) -- Chapter 3. Doing Business Index (UFR) -- Chapter 4. Social Progress Index (UFR) -- Chapter 5. Country Risk Index -- Chapter 6. Corruption Perception Index (UFR) -- Chapter 7. Happiness Index (UFR) -- Chapter 8. World...

1. Why a multilateral agreement on migration is so important and yet why so difficult to achieve it -- 2. How valid are these constraints -- 3. Attempts at reaching a multilateral agreement on migration: a synoptic history -- 4. The New York Declaration and the 2018 Global Compact on Migration...

This is the first English book on the economic relations between China and Latin America written by Chinese scholars. The authors are all from the Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - China’s premier think tank. By combining empirical techniques and...