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Challenges and Dillemas Within the Relations Between Russia and the European Union
Simionov, Loredana Maria - In: CES Working Papers 3 (2011) 4, pp. 599-610
European power on a long term. Despite the weakening of Russia after the Cold War, the federation still represents a challenge …
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Talking exports: The representation of Germany's current account in newspaper media
Maschke, Andreas - 2024
This paper uses quantitative and qualitative text analysis methods to study the discourse surrounding Germany's current account surplus across seven national newspapers. The results of the analysis highlight that the German surpluses are a contested discursive subject across the different...
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Media underreporting as a barrier to India-Pakistan trade normalization: Quantitative analysis of newsprint dailies
Mediratta, Rahul - 2014
waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important … criticism that media coverage on India-Pakistan relations is pre-occupied with security events, to the exclusion of non … which the public pressure politicians to do so. This paper measures the quantum of nearly two decades of media coverage on …
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Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul - 2010
This paper studies empirically the relationship between oil endowment and the duration of autocratic leaders. A simple theoretical setting shows how the relationship between oil endowment and the duration of the dictatorial regime is mediated by the price of oil. Using a dataset on 106...
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Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul - 2008
This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of its autocratic leader. The dictator uses the rents from oil extraction for both personal gain and to pay-off potential opposition and chooses an optimal level of oil...
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Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen der EU zu Russland
Thießen, Ulrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 16, pp. 225-230
Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen der EU zu Russland werden bisher dominiert von Öl- und Gasimporten der EU einerseits und Investitionsgüterimporten Russlands andererseits. Die unmittelbar bevorstehende russische Mitgliedschaft in der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) wird den Handel insgesamt...
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Political economy and governance
Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017
This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is premised on the understanding that institutions matter for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654017
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Priority Roads: The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018169
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Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114759
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa's illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906519