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Axel Dreher
Researcher at Heidelberg University
Publications - 354
Citations - 22333
Axel Dreher is an academic researcher from Heidelberg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Panel data & Politics. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 350 publications receiving 20081 citations. Previous affiliations of Axel Dreher include Center for Economic Studies & ETH Zurich.
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The Devil is in the Shadow: Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or Only Official Income and Official Productivity?
TL;DR: The authors assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy, and find that institutions have a positive impact on official output and total factor productivity, and a negative impact on the underground economy.
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Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new dataset of official financing from China to 138 developing countries between 2000 and 2014 and investigate whether Chinese development finance affects economic growth in recipient countries.
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A Public Choice Perspective of IMF and World Bank Lending and Conditionality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply public choice theory to explain the interests of the institutions' member states, its borrowers and staffs as well as private actors attaching their money to the IMF's programs.
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!
TL;DR: The authors assess how other US aid agencies and non-US donors reacted to MCC decisions and find that positive signaling effects tend to dominate possible substitution effects not only for overall US aid but also for multilateral donors.
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Aid and growth: New evidence using an excludable instrument
Axel Dreher,Sarah Langlotz +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period and found no significant effect of aid on growth in the overall sample.