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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical test
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007
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/10010281348
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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/10010285829