Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 844
Cover Image
Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
Cover Image
Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidencee
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277738
Cover Image
Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidence
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281226
Cover Image
Development (paradigm) failures
Hodler, Roland; Dreher, Axel - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 63-74
political institutions follow the paradigm more closely. Hence, our model suggests that development paradigms have a tendency to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636581
Cover Image
Prognose 2001: konjunkturelle Dynamik laesst nach
Nierhaus, Wolfgang - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 08 (2001) 1, pp. 6-15
Seit dem Sommer 2000 zeigt die Konjunkturentwicklung in Deutschland und den anderen Industrielaendern mehr oder weniger deutliche Bremsspuren durch die hoeheren Oelpreise. In Deutschland wird sich das Wirtschaftswachstum im Jahr 2001 auf 2,5% abschwaechen (2000: 3,1%), insbesondere wegen der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732889
Cover Image
Prognose 2001 : konjunkturelle Dynamik laesst nach
Nierhaus, Wolfgang - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 08 (2001) 01, pp. 6-15
Seit dem Sommer 2000 zeigt die Konjunkturentwicklung in Deutschland und den anderen Industrielaendern mehr oder weniger deutliche Bremsspuren durch die hoeheren Oelpreise. In Deutschland wird sich das Wirtschaftswachstum im Jahr 2001 auf 2,5% abschwaechen (2000: 3,1%), insbesondere wegen der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046849
Cover Image
Does terror threaten human rights?: evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264082
Cover Image
Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269173
Cover Image
Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273794
Cover Image
Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical test
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and decentralization, our results show that expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277739