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The Long-Run Effect of Foreign Aid on Domestic Output
Herzer, Dierk; Morrissey, Oliver - 2010
This paper makes two main contributions. First, we examine the long-run effect of foreign aid on domestic output for 59 developing countries using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias and to detect possible cross-country differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270288
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Debt Relief and Incentive-Compatible Conditionality
Scholl, Almuth - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of debt relief and foreign aid in a neoclassical growth framework with a conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273632
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Foreign Aid and Its Effect on Per-Capita Income (Growth) in Recipient Countries: Pitfalls and Findings from a Time Series Perspective
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of development aid in recipient countries. Specifically, we analyze the relationship between per-capita income and foreign aid for a maximum of 131 recipient countries over the 1960 to 2006 period. We employ annual data and 5-year averages and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291873
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Aid, Policies and Growth: A Non-Canonical Alternative for solving This Puzzle.
Fuentes, Raúl - 2005
This paper presents a two-sector small semi-open economy Ramsey growth model involving foreign aid as an input in the production function. An activist government allocates this input endogenously across sectors and optimizes policies in a non-standard way. Once calibrated, mainly on countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295967
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Can Health Foreign Assistance Break the Medical Brain Drain?
Moullan, Yasser - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of health foreign assistance on physicians' brain drain. We use the database from Bhargava and Docquier (2008) to explain physicians' brain drain and health foreign assistance from 1995 to 2003 using a bilateral gravity equation model. In the first time, we propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301470
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The search for a long-run aid and growth relationship: Pitfalls and findings
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques (such as 2-ways FE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301494
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The Long-Run Effect of Foreign Aid on Domestic Output
Herzer, Dierk; Morrissey, Oliver - 2010
This paper makes two main contributions. First, we examine the long-run effect of foreign aid on domestic output for 59 developing countries using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias and to detect possible cross-country differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301537
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Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid
Gassebner, Martin; Bluhm, Richard; Langlotz, Sarah; … - 2016
de-escalation of conflict. We make three major contributions. First, we combine data on civil wars with data on low level … conflicts in a new ordinal measure that captures the two-sided nature of conflict. Second, we study the effect of development … countries over the period of 1975 to 2010. This solves the endogeneity concerns which have so far plagued the aid-conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527882
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Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014
Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim; Dimant, Eugen - 2020
Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data for 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, we provide causal estimates of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287836
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All-pay war
Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - 2010
We study a model of war in which the outcome of the war is uncertain from the perspective of the involved countries not because of luck on the battlefield (as in standard models) but because of their lack of information about their opponents. In our model there are two countries characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270185