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Does US aid buy UN General Assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: Public choice 136 (2008) 1/2, pp. 139-164
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726044
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Keeping a low profile : what determines the allocation of aid by non-governmental organizations?
Koch, Dirk-Jan; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2008
NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650826
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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007
The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762839
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Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? : evidence based on a new data set
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper introduces new data on the term in office of central bank governors in 137 countries for 1970-2004. Our … panel models show that the probability that a central bank governor is replaced in a particular year is positively related …. The latter result suggests that the turnover rate of central bank governors (TOR) is a poor indicator of central bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762844
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The devil is in the shadow : do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?
Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2007
This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762854
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Keeping a low profile : what determines the allocation of aid by non-governmental organizations?
Koch, Dirk-Jan; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767716
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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor);  … - 2006
Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973-2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003313895
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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor);  … - 2006
Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973 - 2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348645
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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 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 cross-section of 120 countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332206
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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832281