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Axel Dreher

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Professor of International and Development Politics @UniHeidelberg and Editor of RIO. Affiliated with @The_PEIO , @AidData , @cepr_org . #china #aid #firstgen

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Axel Dreher
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How can we measure informal influence of leaders’ unelected spouses? We use our Geocoded ODA Data (GODAD) to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more aid. They do - from European donors, the US, China! Paper and data:
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I'm looking for a PhD student interested in development economics and/or political economy, with a background in economics or political science. It would be great if you could help circulating...
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I almost can't believe that this is finally published and available in the bookstore... but it certainly feels good.
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Cambridge University Press Bookshop
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7/7 New Books: Banking on Beijing - The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program, edited by @DreherAxel , @fuchs_andreas , Bradley Parks @global_wm , @AustinMStrange , and @MikeTierneyIR
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Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference ( @The_PEIO ) in Stockholm, June 13-15, 2024. Submission is now open at . Thanks @ProfLDellmuth and @JonasTallberg for hosting!
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Axel Dreher
3 years
Reviewer #2 in today's rejection letter from @JHealthEcon : The paper is not well written… The English should be much polish. Please revise it careful.
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Axel Dreher
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Join us for #PEIO2022 , 1/13-1/15/22 in Oxford. Submission is now open at . Thanks @thomasnhale , @EmilyJonesBSG , Duncan Snidal & Karolina Milewicz for hosting!
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PhD position at Heidelberg University: We're recruiting a PhD student with a background in Economics or Political Science (Development/Political Economy). Please retweet/forward to potential candidates: , @fuchs_andreas @KaiGehring1 @dietmarfehr @jrgptrs
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1 year
Please spread the news: Heidelberg University has a new . program in development economics, taught in English. We accept applications until 9/30, 2023,
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PhD position at Heidelberg University: We're recruiting a PhD student with a background in Economics or Political Science (Development/Political Economy). Please forward to potential candidates.
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Axel Dreher
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If you'd like to be on next year's PEIO picture, reserve the date: PEIO 15 will be on May 4-6, 2023 at UC-San Diego. Thanks to @renee_bowen_lyn , Lawrence Broz, and @C_J_Schneider for organizing! Submissions will soon be open at .
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Axel Dreher
3 years
Very happy that my paper with @valentin_lang , @PeterRosendorff , and @james_vreeland has been accepted for publication in @The_JOP . Very helpful feedback and fast turnaround. Thank you!
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Peter Rosendorff
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Buying votes at the UN Security Council | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal. How the US buys votes at the UNSC with both bilateral and multilateral aid. Who needs enemies with friends like these? With Dreher, Lang and Vreeland.
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2 years
My likely next response to a reviewer invitation from JDE: Thank you for inviting me to review. I regret to inform you that as part of a pre-screening process applied to all reviewer invitations, I have read your invitation…
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Axel Dreher
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The Political Leaders’ Affiliation Database (PLAD) is now available for 1,109 leaders in the years 1989-2020, at . The data include information about leaders' birthplaces, ethnicity, and education, among others. @fuchs_andreas , @LennartKap , @CharlotteRbrt
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#PEIO2023 is over. Thanks @C_J_Schneider , @renee_bowen_lyn & Lawrence Broz! If you'd like to be on next year's picture, reserve the date: June 13-15, 2024 in Stockholm. Thanks @ProfLDellmuth and @JonasTallberg for hosting!
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Axel Dreher
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If you'd like to be on next year's PEIO picture, reserve the date: PEIO17 will be on January 23-25, 2025 at Harvard University. Thanks to @StephenChaudoin , Christina Davis, @C_Mikulaschek ! Submissions are now open at . @The_PEIO
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Axel Dreher
3 years
Job alert! Heidelberg University/Economics is looking for a Post-Doc (all fields, 6 years max, deadline May 21).
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Axel Dreher
2 years
Here is the call for papers:
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Axel Dreher
2 years
If you'd like to be on next year's PEIO picture, reserve the date: PEIO 15 will be on May 4-6, 2023 at UC-San Diego. Thanks to @renee_bowen_lyn , Lawrence Broz, and @C_J_Schneider for organizing! Submissions will soon be open at .
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Our @voxeu column discusses how birthplaces of national leaders' spouses receive more than three times as much aid during the tenure of their partners than the same sub-national region would receive at other times. Check out our new sub-national aid data:
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Leader spouses and informal influence in foreign aid
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New PLAD data on leader birthregions, ethnicity, gender, education (1989-2023): We use our Political Leaders' Affiliation Database to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more foreign aid. We find they do.
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Axel Dreher
2 years
RIO special issue Institutional Complexity in Global Governance: . Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Oliver Westerwinter, Kenneth Abbott, Benjamin Faude, Yoram Haftel, Tobias Lenz, Daniel Verdier, Karen Alter, @Mer29Eilstrup , @Dr_Faude , @The_PEIO , @Springernomics
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Axel Dreher
2 years
Just got a desk reject where the editor "took a close look" at “title of other paper” with "someone I never heard of". A close look indeed. Then sent the exact same letter with correct title and co-authors. Great example of what is wrong in Economics. @IERJournal
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Axel Dreher
3 years
The deadline for submissions to PEIO approaches: September 30. I hope to see you in Oxford!
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Axel Dreher
3 years
Join us for #PEIO2022 , 1/13-1/15/22 in Oxford. Submission is now open at . Thanks @thomasnhale , @EmilyJonesBSG , Duncan Snidal & Karolina Milewicz for hosting!
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Forthcoming in RIO: "Analyzing international organizations: How the concepts we use affect the answers we get" by Charles B. Roger, Sam S. Rowan, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @charlesbroger , @_samsrowan
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Many influential papers focus on effects of aid from the US, World Bank, China or others. But the WBER has “made the editorial decision to not consider papers that are on the impact of foreign aid coming out of any one particular country.” ...
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Axel Dreher
2 years
The submission deadline for PEIO15 at UCSD is approaching (Jan 15). Submissions, please!
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Axel Dreher
2 years
Here is the call for papers:
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Axel Dreher
2 years
Very happy to finally see this in print...
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Journal of Public Economics
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Recently published paper in the @JPubEcon : "Home bias in humanitarian aid: The role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief" Vol 208 (April 2022) by Christian Bommer, @DreherAxel , & @MarcelloPerezAl
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Axel Dreher
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The deadline for @The_PEIO 2024 in Stockholm is today. I hope I'll meet you there! @ProfLDellmuth @JonasTallberg
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Axel Dreher
1 year
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference ( @The_PEIO ) in Stockholm, June 13-15, 2024. Submission is now open at . Thanks @ProfLDellmuth and @JonasTallberg for hosting!
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The mission of the WBER is "to encourage and support research in the field of development economics." Not in the sub-field on aid effectiveness, it seems. Or is this the @WorldBank trying to avoid publishing results potentially unwelcome to its member governments?
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2 years
The program for the PEIO 2022 conference in Oxford is out, with all papers available online: . Check it out...
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Axel Dreher
3 years
@The_PEIO online seminar is over. 10 weeks, 501 participants, 47 papers, and almost 100 discussants. All papers and many of the posters are available here: . Thanks to everyone who generously offered their time to support this! Join us in Oxford in 2022!
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The introduction to RIO's special issue "In memoriam Stephen Knack" (ed. Christopher Kilby) is online, including a retrospective of Steve’s many contributions, written by Phil Keefer: , @Springernomics
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Axel Dreher
1 year
And almost three years later, this is finally published... @matzatecon @yonemese
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John Cruzatti C.
4 years
Hi all! Our #WP : “Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level” with @matzatecon and #AxelDreher is now up. As we are eager to hear from you, I thought it might be worth to begin a short thread about it.
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Axel Dreher
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Springer has opened the gates for the current RIO issue... access articles by @sarahbauerle , @ChrisVSteinert , @cesicruz , @ManuelOechslin & @eliasanananas , RyanWeldzius, @iBorzyskowski , @mmanulak , @YelingT
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Springernomics
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1st issue of The Review of International Organizations is published and free to read through February: @The_PEIO @DreherAxel
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Official development aid is not altruistic. I discussed this today at @SWR2 with Claudia Warning and Boniface Mabanza. The podcast is available here (German): #Entwicklungspolitik
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Axel Dreher
3 years
We’re rescheduling: #PEIO2022 will take place in Oxford on July 7-9, 2022. Thanks @thomasnhale , @EmilyJonesBSG , @ClaasMertens , Duncan Snidal & Karolina Milewicz for rescheduling rather than going online!
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Axel Dreher
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Join us for #PEIO2022 , 1/13-1/15/22 in Oxford. Submission is now open at . Thanks @thomasnhale , @EmilyJonesBSG , Duncan Snidal & Karolina Milewicz for hosting!
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Forthcoming in RIO: "Social ties and the political participation of firms" by Cesi Cruz & Benjamin A. T. Graham, , @The_PEIO , @Springernomics , @cesicruz
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "Do Voters Reward Politicians for Trade Liberalization? Evidence from South Korea" by Sung Eun Kim & Sujin Cha, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @_sungkim
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Axel Dreher
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Can development aid prevent the root causes of migration and displacement? I talked about this and foreign aid more broadly with Nicole Köster at #SWR1 Leute Heute (in German):
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Forthcoming in RIO: "Institutional roots of international alliances: Party groupings and position similarity at global climate negotiations" by Federica Genovese, R. McAlexander & Johannes Urpelainen, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @fgenovese__ , @jurpelai
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@DreherAxel
Axel Dreher
3 years
all articles ungated...
@Springernomics
Springernomics
3 years
Special issue in honor of Stephen Knack in The Review of International Organizations. Read all articles for free through July and August: @The_PEIO @DreherAxel
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming RIO book review: "Lisa Dellmuth, Jan Aart Scholte, Jonas Tallberg and Soetkin Verhaegen. 2022. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance" by Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @JonasTallberg , @ProfLDellmuth
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Axel Dreher
2 years
The very last presentation at this year's PEIO in Oxford. Thank you @C_J_Schneider for volunteering!
@SilviaMarches12
Silvia Marchesi
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@C_J_Schneider and Robert Thomson examine whether globalisation affects promissory representation. Paper at Paper at . #PEIO14
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash?" by Asif Efrat & Omer Yair, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @AsifEfrat , @OmerYair1
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Axel Dreher
2 years
No idea what it is recommended for, but thank you...
@CanJEcon
Canadian Journal of Economics
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Recommended: “Aid and growth: New evidence using an excludable instrument,” by Axel Dreher ( @DreherAxel ) and Sarah Langlotz ( @LanglotzSarah ). Open Access, . @WileyEconomics
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "Trading favors? UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients”, by Maria Perrotta Berlin, Raj M. Desai & Anders Olofsgård, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @SITEStockholm , @lilleberlin
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Axel Dreher
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My discussion with Silja Graupe about teaching in economics is now online ( @goodimpact_eu ): English translation (Google translate, ) and German original ().
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "IOs’ selective adoption of NGO information: Evidence from the Universal Periodic Review" by Mintao Nie, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @mintaonie
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "The global governance complexity cube: Varieties of institutional complexity in global governance" by Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni & Oliver Westerwinter, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @Mer29Eilstrup , @OWesterwinter
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "From grievances to civil war: The impact of geopolitics" by Faisal Z. Ahmed, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @ESoConflict
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Axel Dreher
2 years
The decline to review process is designed to focus my effort on those papers that are most likely to be interesting. Given the number of invitations I receive I regret that I cannot provide individualized comments on these invitations.
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Axel Dreher
3 years
Job alert! Heidelberg University/Economics is looking for a full Professor in Labor Economics/Political Economy (deadline April 30). Synergies with Political and Public, Macro, Development, Environmental, and/or Behavioral and Experimental desired.
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Axel Dreher
3 years
RIO 16(4) is out, including articles by @ErikVoeten , Timm Betz, Amy Pond, @DyevreArthur , Frank Bohn, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Arthur Dyevre, Nicolas Lampach, @Dr_Faude , @Matias_Margulis , Christina Davis and Tyler Pratt: . @The_PEIO , @Springernomics
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "Expropriation and human rights: does the seizure of FDI signal wider repression?" by Nicole Janz, Noel Johnston, Paasha Mahdavi, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @paashamahdavi , @PolSciReplicate
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Axel Dreher
2 years
... and have determined that the paper is unlikely to be sufficiently interesting to warrant reviewing. I have therefore decided to decline the invitation to review. Overall, only 30% of the invitations I receive can be accepted...
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming RIO book review: "Kim Moloney. 2022. Who Matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, Policy Change and Public Sector Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press) by Susan Park, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @spark_syd , @Global_Academic
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming RIO book review: "Simone Dietrich. 2021. States, Markets and Foreign Aid (Cambridge University Press)" by Gabriella R. Montinola, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @ucdavis
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "When TED talks, does anyone listen? A new dataset on political leadership" by Thomas Flores, Gabriella Lloyd & Irfan Nooruddin, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming RIO book review: "Tanja Börzel. 2021. Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press)" by Martijn Huysmans, @MartijnHuysmans . , @The_PEIO , @Springernomics
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming RIO comment: "The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world" by Karen Alter, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @AlterKaren
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Axel Dreher
3 years
Job Alert: @UniHeidelberg is recruiting a professor in the field of “Society, Culture and Communication in Ibero-America.” Economists, Political Scientists and Sociologists take note!
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5th PEIO seminar next week: Shannon Carcelli, Eun Young Kim, Jakob Schwab, @HarryOppy , @vegardtorstad , discussed by @ryancbriggs , @kfscheve , @dustintingley , @dshyde , @rambletastic , @MJerven , @mihai_zzz ... Papers: . Registration: .
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Axel Dreher
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Forthcoming in RIO: "China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Chinese Influence Over Membership Shares?" by Ayse Kaya & Byungwon Woo, , @Springernomics , @The_PEIO , @ByungwonWoo
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