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Information economics and policy
Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science - 1.1983/84 - 25.2013; Vol. 26.2014 -
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001514096
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Mixed motives: an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298082
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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF conditionality?
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010
We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302720
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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006
on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms … voting compliance in the Assembly. More specifically, our results suggest that general budget support and untied grants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272942
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Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations?
Dreher, Axel; Boockmann, Bernhard - 2007
We investigate voting behavior on human rights in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Our central question is … voting would suggest that these countries aim to weaken UN human rights resolutions since they could be future targets of …. We estimate determinants of voting on the basis of 13,000 individual voting decisions from 1980 to 2002. Our results from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277756
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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 - 2007
We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank, using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1970-2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and the number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277777
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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF conditionality?
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010
We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277779
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Buying votes and international organizations
Dreher, Axel; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2011
another. In particular, we consider the lending activities of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and voting behavior at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311696
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Politics and IMF conditionality
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319706
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The theory of raising rivals' costs and evidence from the international labour organisation
Boockmann, Bernhard; Vaubel, Roland - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 32 (2009) 6, pp. 862-887
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863958