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Axel Dreher

Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.axel-dreher.de

First Publication: 2003

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pdr9 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total Percentile
Last 5 Years 0.00 2.83 4.10 0.00 6.93 90%
Last 10 Years 0.00 4.84 6.96 1.43 13.24 93%
All Time 0.00 9.55 40.67 13.49 63.71 98%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 84
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 72.46

Publications (84)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries Journal of Urban Economics A 6
2025 When aid misses the target: competing objectives, new classifications, and smarter delivery World Development B 1
2025 Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance Economic Development & Cultural Change B 5
2024 Aid effectiveness and donor motives World Development B 3
2023 Chinese aid and health at the country and local level World Development B 3
2022 Home bias in humanitarian aid: The role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief Journal of Public Economics A 3
2021 Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 5
2021 Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects World Development B 6
2020 The Alma Mater effect: Does foreign education of political leaders influence UNGA voting? Public Choice B 2
2020 Aid and growth: New evidence using an excludable instrument Canadian Journal of Economics C 2
2020 The effect of migration on terror: Made at home or imported from abroad? Canadian Journal of Economics C 3
2019 The political economy of International Finance Corporation lending Journal of Development Economics A 3
2019 African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance Journal of Development Economics A 6
2019 The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows European Economic Review B 3
2018 Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures: theory and evidence Oxford Economic Papers C 4
2018 Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid World Bank Economic Review B 3
2017 Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs Economic Inquiry C 3
2017 Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness: What Do We Really Know? World Development B 4
2015 Government ideology in donor and recipient countries: Does ideological proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid? European Economic Review B 3
2015 Membership has its Privileges – The Effect of Membership in International Organizations on FDI World Development B 3
2015 Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014) World Development B 5
2015 Gesture Politics or Real Commitment? Gender Inequality and the Allocation of Aid World Development B 3
2015 Aid and growth at the regional level Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 2
2015 Rogue aid? An empirical analysis of China's aid allocation Canadian Journal of Economics C 2
2014 Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 3
2014 Determinants of Donor Generosity: A Survey of the Aid Budget Literature World Development B 3
2014 The devil is in the shadow. Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity? Public Choice B 3
2014 The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council Public Choice B 4
2013 Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2013 Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking? World Development B 3
2013 Development (paradigm) failures Journal of Development Economics A 2
2013 The Role of Country-of-Origin Characteristics for Foreign Direct Investment and Technical Cooperation in Post-Reform India World Development B 3
2013 Greasing the wheels? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry Public Choice B 2
2013 Do differences in institutional and legal environments explain cross-country variations in IPO underpricing? Applied Economics C 2
2013 The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically Driven Aid Less Effective? Economic Development & Cultural Change B 4
2012 Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! Economics Letters C 3
2012 Does conditionality work? A test for an innovative US aid scheme European Economic Review B 3
2012 Do the IMF and the World Bank influence voting in the UN General Assembly? Public Choice B 2
2012 Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs: A Panel Tobit Analysis Economic Development & Cultural Change B 4
2012 Does foreign aid really raise per capita income? A time series perspective Canadian Journal of Economics C 5
2012 Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Official Financing Matter? The World Economy C 4
2011 Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations? Public Choice B 2
2011 Does government ideology affect personal happiness? A test Economics Letters C 2
2011 Does government decentralization reduce domestic terror? An empirical test Economics Letters C 2
2011 Hit and (they will) run: The impact of terrorism on migration Economics Letters C 3
2011 Read my lips: The role of information transmission in multilateral reform design Journal of International Economics A 3
2011 Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid Between nonDAC and DAC Donor Countries World Development B 3
2011 Foreign Students and Migration to the United States World Development B 2
2011 Does terror increase aid? Public Choice B 2
2010 The impact of aid on growth revisited: Do donor motives matter? Economics Letters C 2
2010 Does the IMF Help or Hurt? The Effect of IMF Programs on the Likelihood and Outcome of Currency Crises World Development B 2
2010 Corruption and the shadow economy: an empirical analysis Public Choice B 2
2010 Diesel price convergence and mineral oil taxation in Europe Applied Economics C 2
2010 Does Terrorism Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data Journal of Law and Economics B 3
2010 Do Markets Care about Central Bank Governor Changes? Evidence from Emerging Markets Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking B 2
2010 Aid Delivery through Non‐governmental Organisations: Does the Aid Channel Matter for the Targeting of Swedish Aid? The World Economy C 3
2010 When is a central bank governor replaced? Evidence based on a new data set Journal of Macroeconomics C 3
2009 Development aid and international politics: Does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions? Journal of Development Economics A 3
2009 Global horse trading: IMF loans for votes in the United Nations Security Council European Economic Review B 3
2009 Foreign exchange intervention and the political business cycle: A panel data analysis Journal of International Money and Finance B 2
2009 Keeping a Low Profile: What Determines the Allocation of Aid by Non-Governmental Organizations? World Development B 4
2009 The nexus between corruption and capital account restrictions Public Choice B 2
2009 IMF conditionality: theory and evidence Public Choice B 1
2009 The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years Journal of Development Studies C 1
2008 On decentralization and life satisfaction Economics Letters C 3
2008 Has Globalization Increased Inequality?* Review of International Economics B 2
2008 Does political proximity to the U.S. cause terror? Economics Letters C 2
2008 The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data Public Choice B 3
2008 Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis Public Choice B 3
2008 The political economy of IMF forecasts Public Choice B 3
2008 Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data World Bank Economic Review B 3
2008 Do Prices for Petroleum Products Converge in a Unified Europe with Non-Harmonized Tax Rates? The Energy Journal B 2
2008 Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society Social Choice and Welfare C 3
2007 The bigger the better? Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world Public Choice B 3
2007 Has Globalisation Really had no Effect on Unions? Kyklos C 2
2007 IMF programs and reforms -- inhibition or encouragement? Economics Letters C 2
2007 Staff growth in international organizations: A principal-agent problem? An empirical analysis Public Choice B 3
2007 Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of U.S. Interests on International Monetary Fund Conditions Journal of Law and Economics B 2
2007 Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low‐income Countries ‐ edited by JAN JOOST TEUNISSEN and AGE AKKERMAN The World Economy C 1
2006 IMF and economic growth: The effects of programs, loans, and compliance with conditionality World Development B 1
2006 Does globalization affect growth? Evidence from a new index of globalization Applied Economics C 1
2004 A Public Choice Perspective of IMF and World Bank Lending and Conditionality Public Choice B 1
2004 Do IMF and IBRD Cause Moral Hazard and Political Business Cycles? Evidence from Panel Data Open Economies Review C 2
2003 The influence of elections on IMF programme interruptions Journal of Development Studies C 1