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Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A. - 2010

To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, we use satellite data on nighttime light for any region in any aid-recipient country, and we determine for each year and each country the region in which the current political leader was born. Having a panel with 22,850...

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Oil and civil conflict: On and off (shore)

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017

We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …

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War signals: A theory of trade, trust and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … after each conflict episode. Third, accidental conflicts that do not reflect economic fundamentals can lead to a permanent …

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Tied aid, trade-facilitating aid or trade-diverting aid?

Johansson, Lars M.; Pettersson, Jan - 2009

Donor aid is often regarded as being informally tied (aid increases donorrecipient exports) and this effect is, in general, interpreted as being harmful to aid recipients. However, in this paper, using a gravity model, we show that aid is also positively associated with recipient-donor exports....

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Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources

Barrett, Scott - 1994

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Does the shadow economy raise observed aggregate efficiency? A cross-country comparison

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich G.; … - 2006

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...

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Population dynamics and economic growth: Should we adopt different frameworks for poor and rich countries?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2011

From the canonical model of Becker onward, models of population dynamics have been based on assumptions which fit the family structure of developed countries. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that fits the family structure of poor countries. The building blocks of the model...

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Financial flows and international imbalances: The role of catching up by late-industrializing developing countries

Kregel, Jan - 2008

While the traditional approach to the adjustment of international imbalances assumes industrialized countries at a similar level of development and with similar production structures, such imbalances have historically been the result of a process of catching up by late-industrializing developing...

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Policy volatility and growth

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006

A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is almost non-existent. This paper offers a framework in...

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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007

This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...

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