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Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake
No full textWe examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the allocation of this humanitarian assistance follows municipalities' affectedness and their physical and socio-economic vulnerabilities, as rapidly reducing suffering is the intended goal of flash appeals. We then analyze potential ethnic, religious, and political distortions. We alternatively consider the proposed project number, the proposed financial amount, and the subsequent funding decision by aid donors. Our results show that aid allocation is associated with geophysical estimates of the disaster's destructiveness, but shows little regard for the specific socio-economic and physical vulnerabilities conditional on destruction. It is worrisome that the allocation of the flash appeal commitments favors municipalities dominated by higher castes and disadvantages those with a greater distance to the Nepali capital Kathmandu
Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
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Supplemental Material - Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis by Gerda Asmus-Bluhm, Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, and Bradley Parks in Journal of Conflict Resolution</p
Supplemental Material - Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis by Gerda Asmus-Bluhm, Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, and Bradley Parks in Journal of Conflict Resolution</p
Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence From the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
No full textIntegrationsgesetz: Kuhschweizer gibt es nicht
No full textDas neue Integrationsgesetz verlangt, dass Migranten in der Schweiz Wurzeln schlagen. Für unsere Autoren ist das eine seltsame Idee. Sie fordern ein Umdenken
Vera Kelsey Papers, 1944-1958
Get PDFAn accomplished journalist and author, Vera Kelsey's papers document her writing career through the manuscripts and research notes for her last four books, British Columbia Rides a Star, Red River Runs North!, Tomorrow is for You, and Young Men So Daring. For British Columbia Rides a Star it includes her travel notes from four trips around British Columbia
Investment screening and venture capital
No full textIn this paper we analyze the effects of investment screening on cross-border venture capital investments in Europe between 2007 and 2022. The data we work with is originally based on PRISM data which has been extended by Eichenauer and Wang and which we combine with deal data from Preqin to assess investment activity. Our results point to unintended negative effects: while the number of actually blocked deals has remained very low, the associated uncertainty and an increase in transaction costs have led to a significant decline in cross-border deals. The effects are stronger in the case of financial (i.e. 'non-strategic') investors, for late-stage venture capital deals, and for deals with investors from non-OECD countries. Moreover, we observe changes in the size of deals and their structure. This has profound policy implications for the financing of innovation in Europe.In dieser Arbeit untersuchen wir die Auswirkungen von Investitionsscreenings auf grenzüberschreitende Venture-Capital-Investitionen in Europa zwischen 2007 und 2022. Die zugrunde liegenden Daten basieren auf den PRISM-Daten, die von Eichenauer und Wang erweitert wurden, und wurden mit Deal-Daten von Preqin kombiniert, um die Investitionstätigkeit zu analysieren. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen unbeabsichtigte negative Effekte: Obwohl die Zahl tatsächlich blockierter Deals sehr gering bleibt, hat die damit verbundene Unsicherheit sowie die Erhöhung der Transaktionskosten zu einem deutlichen Rückgang grenzüberschreitender Investitionen geführt. Besonders stark sind diese Effekte bei finanziellen (d.h. "nicht-strategischen") Investoren, bei späten Venture-Capital-Deals und bei Investoren aus Nicht-OECD-Ländern. Zudem beobachten wir Veränderungen in der Größe und Struktur der Deals. Diese Ergebnisse haben weitreichende politische Implikationen für die Finanzierung von Innovationen in Europa
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
Get PDFChina and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This article explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China. We build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed projects in the Global South between 2007 and 2014 and combine it with data on Chinese government-financed projects. Our regression results for 2,333 provinces within 123 countries demonstrate that India’s Exim Bank is significantly more likely to locate a project in a given jurisdiction if China provided government financing there in the previous year. Since this effect is more pronounced in countries where India is more popular relative to China and where both lenders have a similar export structure, we interpret this as evidence of India competing with China. By contrast, we do not find evidence that China uses official aid or credit to compete with India through co-located projects.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft https://doi.org/10.13039/50110000165
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