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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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Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness: What Do We Really Know?
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of fragmentation in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and education, focusing on a number of conceptually different indicators of fragmentation, and paying attention to potentially heterogeneous effects across countries, sectors, and channels of influence.
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Aid Delivery through Non‐governmental Organisations: Does the Aid Channel Matter for the Targeting of Swedish Aid?
TL;DR: The authors analyzed whether aid channelled through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is less affected by selfish donor motivations and better targeted to needy recipient countries than aid distributed by state agencies.
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The nexus between corruption and capital account restrictions
Axel Dreher,Lars-H. R. Siemers +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a formal model illustrating the mutual relationship between corruption and capital account restrictions and test the model using panel data for 80 countries over the period 1984-2002 and find that corruption and restrictions indeed affect each other.
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid and found that short-time political favoritism reduces the effectiveness. But they did not consider the effects of political influence on the long-term performance of aid.
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Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
Richard Bluhm,Axel Dreher,Andreas Fuchs,Bradley C. Parks,Austin M. Strange,Michael J. Tierney +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity is studied. And the authors find that Chinese-financed transportation projects reduce spatial concentration within but not between regions.