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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2006 - This version: 05 January 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...

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Inequality and happiness : when perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2013

; World Values Survey …

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Generalized dynamic panel data models with random effects for cross-section and time

Mesters, Geert; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2012

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Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature

Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012

What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors' aid budgets and examine which of the suggested variables robustly determine aid effort, measured as Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income. More...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014

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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid

Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected...

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …

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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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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel (contributor) - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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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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