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What drives Africa's export diversification?
The primary purpose of this paper is to seek empirical answers to the above question. Using a highly disaggregated bilateral trade flows at HS 6 digit level for African countries for a period 1995-2009 and a conditional logit technique, I find 3 main empirical results. First, intra-Africa regional trade cooperation enhances the likelihood of an African nation exporting across the new…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 08/03/2013
Spatial and temporal aggregation in racial profiling
In the last decade, models of rational choice have chimed into the discussion on racial profiling, the use of race in stop and search decisions of the police. The models describe the behavior of motorists and the police and provide empirical tests to assess the question whether the police exhibit racial animus. However, existing studies have neglected the effect of spatial and…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
Aiding and abetting the looting of nations : the impact of aid on growth in autocracies
We examine the link between international aid, political instability and economic growth in autocratic countries. First, we discuss the manner in which externally provided liquidity can affect looting and instability in an autocratic country, through the generation of outside options for a dictator who has property rights over the resource wealth of the country. We then use a…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2013
Democratizing corporate governance: Compensating for the democratic deficit of corporate political activity and corporate citizenship
This article addresses the democratic deficit that emerges when private corporations engage in public policy, either by providing citizenship rights and global public goods (corporate citizenship) or by influencing the political
system and lobbying for their economic interests (strategic corporate political activities). This democratic deficit is significant, especially when…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Marginally discriminated: the role of outcome tests in European jurisdiction
For decades, racial profiling has been subject of intense debate in US jurisdiction. Recently, outcome tests based on economic models have contributed to the legal discourse. However, it is not readily obvious if and to what extent they also pertain to European jurisdiction, where racial profiling has only as of late stirred up controversy. In a comprehensive examination of their…
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English / 01/01/2013
Nachhaltigkeit und Immobilieninvestitionen : Die finanzielle Relevanz von Nachhaltigkeit für Portfoliostrategien
Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert die Arbeiten im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes, an welchem sich Immobilien Basel-Stadt, Stadt Zürich, Liegenschaftenverwaltung, SUVA, Swisscanto Asset Management AG, Swiss Life Property Management AG, UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG mit Immobiliendaten und Beiträgen an den Kosten beteiligten. Die Arbeit untersucht die finanzielle Relevanz…
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Deutsch / 14/12/2012
Redemption or abstinence ? Original sin, currency mismatches and counter-cyclical policies in the new millenium
This paper updates our previous work on the level and evolution of original sin. It shows that while the number of countries that issue local-currency debt in international markets has increased in the past decade, this improvement has been quite modest. Although we find that countries have been borrowing at home, thanks to deepening domestic markets, we document that foreign…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/12/2012
Economic Sustainability Indicator ESI(R), Überarbeitung 2011/12
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/12/2012
Countercyclical capital regulation and bank ownership structure
This paper develops a macroeconomic framework where the representative bank is owned by inside and outside owners and copes with capital requirements that vary countercyclically. The issuance of outside equity is characterized getting insights from the literature on corporate governance, especially that on corporate governance and investor protection. The insider receives utility…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 19/11/2012
External shocks, internal shots : the geography of civil conflicts
This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events within a set of Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the country or the regions within countries - changes in the world demand of agricultural commodities, financial crises…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 19/11/2012
International capital flows and development: financial openness matters
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
The linkage between outcome differences in cotton production and rural roads improvements: a matching approach
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Regional analysis of Eastern Province feeder road project: district level estimation of the poverty alleviation effects of rural roads improvements in Zambia’s Eastern Province
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Time to ship during financial crises
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 06/11/2012
Conflicts of interest, reputation, and the interwar debt crisis: banksters or bad luck?
This paper builds a new dataset with detailed information on the universe of foreign government bonds issued in New York in the 1920s and uses these data to describe the behavior of the financial intermediaries which operated in the New York market during the period leading to the interwar debt crisis. The paper starts by showing that concerns over reputation played an important role…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 18/10/2012
Domestic and external public debt in developing countries
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 18/10/2012
Preferential trading arrangements
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 06/08/2012
Cost-effective attainment of environmental compliance: governance solutions for environmental objectives in the Peoples [sic] Republic of China
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/07/2012
Too much finance?
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/07/2012
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