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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 … 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 …

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The global production frontier of universities

Bolli, Thomas - 2011

This paper provides first micro-level evidence of the global university production frontier, allowing to estimate technical efficiencies of 273 top research universities across 29 countries between 2007 and 2009. Exploiting comparable international data improves the estimation of the production...

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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...

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The inverse domino effect: Are economic reforms contagious?

Gassebner, Martin; Gaston, Noel; Lamla, Michael - 2007

This paper examines whether a country's economic reforms are affected by reforms adopted by other countries. A simple model of economic reforms is developed to motivate the econometric work. Unsurprisingly, the model predicts that reforms are more likely when factors of production are...

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Do autocratic states trade less?

Aidt, Toke S.; Gassebner, Martin - 2007

The paper analyzes whether the political regime of a country influences its involvement in international trade. Firstly, we develop a theoretical model that predicts that autocracies trade less than democracies. Secondly, we test the predictions of the model empirically using a panel of more...

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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 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...

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International comovements, business cycle and inflation: A historical perspective

Mumtaz, Haroon; Simonelli, Saverio; Surico, Paolo - 2009

-run panel of real and nominal variables. First, the contribution of world comovements to domestic output growth has decreased …

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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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Climate change impacts on global agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard; … - 2010

Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this study assesses the potential impacts of climate change and CO2 fertilization on global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of...

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