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Membership has its privileges: The effect of membership in international organizations on FDI

Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments´ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Paying a visit: The Dalai Lama Effect on international trade

Fuchs, Andreas; Klann, Nils-Hendrik - 2011

Is political compliance a precondition for healthy trade relations with China? The Chinese government frequently threatens that meetings between its trading partners' officials and the Dalai Lama will be met with animosity and ultimately harm trade ties with China. We run a gravity model of...

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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...

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Discarding food vs. starving people: Inefficient and immoral?

Koester, Ulrich - 2012

on March 13, 2012: Europe's waste would suffice twice to feed the world's hungry. This statement startled many people … dieser Welt zu ernähren. Diese Aussage hat viele Menschen erschreckt. In Europa und anderen wohlhabenden Ländern werden …

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International grain markets: Russia as a new power?

Glauben, Thomas; Pàll, Zsombor; Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; … - 2012

Russia, a former net importer of wheat, has developed into one of the leading actors in the world wheat market within … the last decade. Forecasts suggest that Russia's share in the world market may increase even further and Russia might … become the world's largest wheat exporter by 2020. One key research question resulting from this development is whether …

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Central banks: Paradise lost

Issing, Otmar - 2012

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Multilateralism and regionalism from an American perspective: Parallels and contrasts with the Langhammer vision

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-9, pp. 1-18

facing the world trading order, and proposes possible ways out of the persistent impasse. Hufbauer argues that the success of …

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Challenges to the multilateral trading system and possible responses

Panagariya, Arvind - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-10, pp. 1-25

institution in charge of it, the World Trade Organization, is in sound health. If anything, the Doha Round has been a victim of …

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Milne, Alistair - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-7, pp. 1-31

A fundamental cause of the global financial crisis was excessive maturity mismatch, notably shadow banking holdings of sub-prime MBS and other structured credit instruments and cross-border Euro area interbank lending to the uncompetitive Euro area periphery. The costs of short term funding do...

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