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The role of country-of-origin characteristics for foreign direct investment and technical cooperation in post-reform India
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2011
The decisions of foreign investors on technical cooperation versus equity engagements and on the degree of ownership in FDI projects are likely to depend on their relative bargaining position vis-à-vis the host country. India provides an interesting case for analyzing the interplay between...
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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor);  … - 2006
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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Are "new" donors different? : comparing the allocation of bilateral aid between non-DAC and DAC donor countries
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 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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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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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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More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? : Not a Bit!
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010
We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...
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Do trade and investment agreements lead to more FDI? : Accounting for key provisions inside the black box
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010
The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as "black boxes", despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...
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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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How firms use domestic and international corporate bond markets
Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Martínez Pería, … - 2012
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On the international transmission of shocks : micro-evidence from mutual fund portfolios
Raddatz, Claudio E.; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2011
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