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Fueling conflict? : (de)escalation and bilateral aid

Bluhm, Richard; Gassebner, Martin; Langlotz, Sarah; … - 2016

This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major … estimator that allows for unobserved heterogeneity and corrects for endogeneity. Third, we identify the causal effect of foreign … recipients. We establish that the effect of foreign aid on the various transition probabilities is heterogeneous and can be …

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Politicized trade : what drives withdrawal of trade preferences?

Gassebner, Martin; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2017

While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...

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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009

This paper builds on the assumption that OECD countries are (or will soon be) taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG...

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Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements : should action in the EU and US be postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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