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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 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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Are NGOs the Better Donors? A Case Study of Aid Allocation for Sweden
TL;DR: This paper analyzed whether and to what extent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outperform official donors by allocating aid in a way that renders effective poverty alleviation more likely, and found that NGOs are more selective when deciding about which countries to enter at all.
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Consequences of Globalisation Reconsidered: Applying The KOF Index
TL;DR: The first step in quantifying the consequences of globalisation is the ability to measure globalisation itself as mentioned in this paper, and the KOF Index of Globalisation has been used to measure the extent to which globalisation affects social and economic phenomena.
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Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the impact of US interests on IMF Conditions
Axel Dreher,Nathan M. Jensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a panel data analysis of 206 letters of intent from 38 countries from 4/1997-2/2003 reveals that the number of conditions on an IMF loan depends on a borrowing country's voting pattern in the UN general assembly.
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Does Globalization Affect Growth? Evidence from a new Index of Globalization
TL;DR: This article developed an index of globalization covering its three main dimensions: economic integration, social integration, and political integration, using panel data for 123 countries in 1970-2000 and analyzed empirically whether the overall index and sub-indexes constructed to measure the single dimensions affect economic growth.