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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147999
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Instruments of Development : Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development
Deaton, Angus - 2010
There is currently much debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid and about what kind of projects can engender economic development. There is skepticism about the ability of econometric analysis to resolve these issues, or of development agencies to learn from their own experience. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757925
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Why is There Multilateral Lending?
Rodrik, Dani - 2010
Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have … their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763737
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Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021
I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313684
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The WTO : Theory and Practice
Bagwell, Kyle - 2010
We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150443
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The Role of International Organizations in the Bretton Woods System
Dominguez, Kathryn M.E - 2021
This paper examines the roles played by organizations in maintaining the Bretton Woods System. Theory indicates that even if countries understand that cooperation will lead them to a Pareto superior outcome, they need not cooperate unless they are convinced that other countries are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232739
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use for helping poor countries to improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and has generated much controversy. This paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048582
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Can Foreign Aid Accelerate Stabilization?
Casella, Alessandra; Eichengreen, Barry - 2021
This paper studies the effect of foreign aid on economic stabilization. Following Alesina and Drazen (1991), we model the delay in stabilizing as the result of a distributional struggle: reforms are postponed because they are costly and each distributional faction hopes to reduce its share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230597
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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 2021
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233025
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Sovereign Risk and Financial Risk
Gilchrist, Simon; Wei, Bin; Yue, Vivian Z.; Zakrajsek, Egon - 2023
In this paper, we study the interplay between sovereign risk and global financial risk. We show that a substantial portion of the comovement among sovereign spreads is accounted for by changes in global financial risk. We construct bond-level sovereign spreads for dollar-denominated bonds issued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351701