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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762847
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Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical test
Dreher, Axel (contributor);  … - 2008
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and decentralization, our results show that expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764202
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Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : System stability versus government efficiency: an empirical test
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003839476
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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
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866216
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Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical test
Dreher, Axel (contributor);  … - 2007
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and decentralization, our results show that expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604502
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Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical test
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003676633
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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
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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
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857142