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Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2021

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals : Evidence From the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Kunze, Sven; Strobl, Eric - 2019

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the allocation of this humanitarian assistance follows...

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Democracy and Aid Donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018

Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries’...

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Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate : The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support

Fuchs, Andreas - 2015

Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export markets and political support prevents donor countries from closer coordination of aid activities. To test these hypotheses, we perform logit and fractional...

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Expectation-Driven Climate Treaties with Breakthrough Technologies

Narita, Daiju - 2014

Recent research has shown that agreements centered on the adoption of breakthrough technologies can break the deadlock in international climate negotiations if the mitigation technology exhibits a network externality that transforms full cooperation into a self-enforcing outcome. This paper...

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Real Wages and Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area

McCallum, Andrew H. - 2011

We use the Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression (FAVAR) approach of Bernanke, Boivin and Eliasz (2005) to estimate the effects of monetary policy shocks on wages and employment in the euro area. The use of a large data set comprising country, sectoral and euro area-wide data allows us to...

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Do Trade and Investment Agreements Lead to More FDI? Accounting for Key Provisions Inside the Black Box

Berger, Axel - 2011

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as black boxes, despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...

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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2011

We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...

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Climate Policy, Technology Choice, and Multiple Equilibria in a Developing Economy

Narita, Daiju - 2010

Control of carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries is becoming a key issue in the international climate policy. A critical element for achieving substantial emission reduction in those countries is the installment of new energy technologies. Drawing on the framework of poverty-trap...

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Economic Optimality of CCS Use : A Resource-Economic Model

Narita, Daiju - 2010

CCS (carbon dioxide capture and storage) is an issue which has received increasing attention in the debate on climate change over the last years because of its relative technical simplicity and a large expected potential in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The coexistence of both strong...

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