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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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Do IMF and World Bank programs induce government crises? An empirical analysis
Axel Dreher,Martin Gassebner +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined whether and under what circumstances World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs affect the likelihood of major government crises and found that crises are, on average, more likely as a consequence of World Bank programs.
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Foreign Students and Migration to the United States
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of the inflow of foreign students in to the United States on migration patterns in the country over the 1971-2001 period and found that the stock of foreign student is an important predictor of subsequent migration.
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms and show that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed optimal.
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The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
TL;DR: This article used an original multiple discrete choice model to analyze a dataset of 180 elections from 1970 to 2005, and found that UNSC election appears to derive from a compromise between the demands of populous countries to win election more frequently and a norm of giving each country its turn.
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Greasing the Wheels of Entrepreneurship? Impact of Regulations and Corruption on Firm Entry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption and found that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies, and that at the maximum level of regulation, corruption significantly increases entrepreneurial activity.