Kai gehring, university of zurich sirus dehdari, stockholm university the origins of common identity. Kai gehring is a senior researcher in economics at the university of zurich. Author links open overlay panel kai gehring a 1 stephan a. University of heidelberg department of economics discussion paper series no. Elections, opportunism, partisanship and sovereign ratings.
Alsacelorraine with sirus dehdari, cesifo working paper no. Using fixed effects and iv estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in africa. He received his phd in economics from the university of gottingen, and he conducted research stays at harvard, cambridge, and stanford university. But its still an economics textbook for people who are not necessarily looking to go into economics.
Courant research centre poverty, equity and growth in developing and transition countries discussion paper no. The home bias in sovereign ratings, working papers 0552, university of heidelberg, department of economics. Macroeconomic issues in developing economies ejournal. Dr gehring and his colleagues frequently leverage novel methods to. Donor countries political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy s effort, and. This column argues that budget aid is better than projectspecific aid because it attributes full responsibility of expenditure to the recipient government, allowing voters to respond at the ballot boxes to how well. The uks recent decision to exit the european union has shone a spotlight on the role of identities in shaping peoples economic and political decisions. Aid fragmentation and effectiveness revisited with kai gehring, katharina.
Dr kai sebastian gehring politics at the intersection of identity and. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The book applies that principle to common scenarios that are easy to understand, such as minimum wage and government spending initiatives. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading actionable gamification. Evidence from a policy discontinuity at the texas border pp. Geopolitics, aid and growth by axel dreher, vera z.
The book s aim, zarghamee said, is to use empirical data, not just theoretical models. Books recent books earlier books by decade browse books by series chapters from books in process. I develop theories based on economics and related disciplines, and test them rigorously using modern econometric methods, often with the help of novel. Kai gehring is a senior researcher at the department of political science at the university of zurich, funded by a 4year ambizione grant of the swiss national science foundation. When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match.
After a year working for leoni ag, whittaker then pursued a masters degree in european political economy at the london school of economics. Information transmission and ownership consolidation in. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. We investigate the effects of shortterm political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Poterba from elsevier bibliographic data for series maintained by dana niculescu. Dr kai sebastian gehring is a senior researcher in economics at the university of zurich, who investigates group identities and the distribution of resources, and how they affect political stability and conflict. Kai ryssdal is the host and senior editor of marketplace, and the cohost of make me smart with kai and molly. I am a member of cesifo, the european development network eudn, the development economics committee of the german economic association, and the globalization and development group glad. It challenges the notion that economics is best interpreted as a series of shortterm scenarios, events, and trends. Kaplan university of heidelberg discussion paper series no.
Evidence from a policy discontinuity at the texas border. My main research interests are in political economy, development and public economics. This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors choice between project aid and budget support. This column examines two secessionist parties in the uk the scottish national party and the welsh plaid cymru and the divergence in their performance following the. The thrust of this book which was so fascinating what we have here is an organically derived governance of a criminal. C bjornskov, a dreher, jav fischer, j schnellenbach, k gehring.
Articles in press latest issue article collections all issues submit your article. Despite its many benefits, donor governments show little enthusiasm for budget aid, instead preferring to give project aid over which they have greater control. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decisionmaking process and can thus be an example of a delegationscheme. Conversely, project aid represents a more centralized type of aid. Dr kai sebastian gehring politics at the intersection of. Lennart kaplan is a postdoctoral fellow at the german development institute. China and the world bank research papers in economics. Journal of public economics shop books, ebooks and journals. Fuchs, andreas and gehring, kai, the home bias in sovereign ratings june 1, 2015. Separatism and the role of regional resources vox, cepr.
Populism rooted in economics can be addressed with policies that enhance socioeconomic mobility. Aid by both the wb and china does not increase outright conflict nor any type. Kai gehring university of zurich school of economics home. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the united nations security council unsc in the period the aid is committed, which provides quasirandom variation in aid. Central banks and many public pension funds have clear instructions in which asset categories they are allowed to invest, said kai gehring, senior economics researcher at the university of zurich. I hold a phd in economics 2018 from the vrije universiteit and tinbergen institute in amsterdam. Division, homogenization policies and identity formation. Gehring, kai langlotz, sarah kienberger, stefan cesifo. This new free, open source economics textbook was developed by polling students from 25 universities about what economics should teach, explains professor homa zarghamee of barnard college. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e.
The political economics of development clusters, economics books, princeton university press, edition 1, number 9624, march. History and mystery of the iconic tiki restaurant tim glazner on. If that is the case, you can still publish your manuscript as open access in the journal if your paper is accepted before june 2020, or have the option to withdraw your submission from journal of public economics and resubmit to pubec its gold open access spinoff journal journal of public economics plus at any stage in the editorial process. Riker award for the best book in political economy. Beyond points, badges, and leaderboards kindle edition by chou, yu kai. Kai gehring heidelberg university, photo answers questions from leonhardt van efferink geomeans about the new research paper the home bias in sovereign ratings.
Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. Chinas development model challenges the approaches of traditional western donors like the world bank. University of heidelberg department of economics kai gehring. Yanis varoufakis shelved 2 times as general economics avg rating 4. The home bias in sovereign ratings by andreas fuchs, kai. The other strand of my research focuses on corporate ownership, political connections, and board. Regional resources and democratic secessionism sciencedirect. Kai gehring is a senior researcher at the department of political science at the. We reinvestigate the impact of fragmentation on aid effectiveness 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. Dr kai sebastian gehring is a senior researcher in economics at the. One major strand of my research investigates the implications of postconflict aid, for which i spent time in kabul conducting field interviews with reconstruction and development stakeholders.
Following his zivildienst, he studied economics and management at the university of bristol, graduating in 2008. There is a rapidly growing empirical literature on the causes of the recent rise of populism in western countries, but much less is known about solutions. University of nottingham economics events development economics seminars 201920 cancelled gep credit development seminar. The quasiexogenous division of the french regions alsace and lorraine after the francoprussian war allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that.
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