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View article: Fiscal policy responses to COVID-19 in Switzerland: a high-frequency dataset on federal and sub-federal policy announcements in the first year of the pandemic
Fiscal policy responses to COVID-19 in Switzerland: a high-frequency dataset on federal and sub-federal policy announcements in the first year of the pandemic Open
The Swiss COVID-19 fiscal policy dataset includes detailed information on all fiscal support policies adopted in Switzerland in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering the period from February 2020 to February 2021, the dataset include…
View article: Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis Open
China 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 data…
View article: Obtaining consistent time series from Google Trends
Obtaining consistent time series from Google Trends Open
Google Trends data are a popular data source for research, but raw data are frequency‐inconsistent: daily data fail to capture long‐run trends. This issue has gone unnoticed in the literature. In addition, sampling noise can be substantial…
View article: Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake
Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake Open
We 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 …
View article: Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms Open
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countrie…
View article: Constructing Daily Economic Sentiment Indices Based on Google Trends
Constructing Daily Economic Sentiment Indices Based on Google Trends Open
Google Trends have become a popular data source for social science research. We show that for small countries or sub-national regions like U.S. states, underlying sampling noise in Google Trends can be substantial. The data may therefore b…
View article: December Fever in Public Finance
December Fever in Public Finance Open
Public spending often increases at the end of fiscal years. This is undesirable because late spending tends to be inefficient. The causes for these spending spikes are however poorly understood. This paper offers a novel identification str…
View article: December Fever in Public Finance
December Fever in Public Finance Open
Public spending often increases at the end of fiscal years. This is undesirable because late spending tends to be inefficient. The causes for these spending spikes are however poorly understood. This paper offers a novel identification str…
View article: Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid Open
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. 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 …
View article: The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries
The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries Open
One goal of China’s Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China’s growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the …
View article: The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: Allocation, Timing, and Effectivenes
The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: Allocation, Timing, and Effectivenes Open
This thesis consists of four essays on the political economy of foreign aid. These essays cover issues related to the allocation, the timing, and the economic consequences of foreign aid for recipient countries. Chapters 1 and 3 consider t…
View article: The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries
The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries Open
One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China's growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the …
View article: Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds Open
Over the past decade, donors of foreign
\n aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at
\n the World Bank. This earmarking of contributions to
\n donors' preferred recipient countries and issues has
\n raised concerns about …
View article: The use of multi-bi aid by France in comparison with other donor countries
The use of multi-bi aid by France in comparison with other donor countries Open
This study provides an analysis of the French usage of multi-bi aid in comparison to other large donors of development assistance. Using a diverse set of methods, including document analysis, interview evidence, and state-of-the-art statis…
View article: Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds Open
Over the last decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank. Concerns have been raised that trust fund aid may undermine the incentives associated with IDA s performance-oriented aid a…