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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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Buying votes and international organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the quality of the data collected by the data collection system by using the information gathered from the data gathered by the users' data collection systems.
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The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council
TL;DR: The authors investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council -the body endowed with the international legal authority to legitimize the use of armed force to maintain or restore peace.
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Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Political Business Cycle : a Panel Data Analysis
Axel Dreher,Roland Vaubel +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that if there is a monetary political business cycle, sales of foreign exchange are especially likely before elections, and the relationship is significant and robust irrespective of the type of electoral variable, the choice of control variables and the splitting of the sample period.
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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match
Christian Bjørnskov,Axel Dreher,Justina A. V. Fischer,Justina A. V. Fischer,Justina A. V. Fischer,Jan Schnellenbach +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simple model of individual labor-market participation under uncertainty is used to predict that higher levels of perceived fairness cause higher level of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution.
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Do differences in institutional and legal environments explain cross-country variations in IPO underpricing?
Christian Hopp,Axel Dreher +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically analyse the determinants of IPO underpricing using panel data for 24 countries over the period 1988-2005 and find evidence that under-pricing is higher in countries with stronger protection of outside investors.