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Development aid and international politics : does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2007

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank … temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for … economic and political factors, as well as regional and country effects. The size of World Bank loans, however, is not affected …

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Development aid and international politics : does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - In: Journal of development economics 88 (2009) 1, pp. 1-18

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811186

Independent actor or agent? : an empirical analysis of the impact of U. S. interests on International Monetary Fund conditions

Dreher, Axel; Jensen, Nathan M. - In: The journal of law & economics 50 (2007) 1, pp. 105-124

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003506650

Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending : theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876384

Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending : theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813630

Buying votes and international organizations

Dreher, Axel; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2011

This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...