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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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Driving factors of carbon dioxide emissions and the impact from Kyoto protocol

Grunewald, Nicole; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

In the last two decades increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis this relationship may be described by an inverted-U curve. However, recent evidence rejects the...

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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions : evidence from developing countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for...

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Cross-border patenting, globalization, and development

LaBelle, Jesse; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023

We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new dataset that tracks patents within and between countries...

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