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National Income and Its Distribution

Author/Editor: Markus Bruckner, Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein.

Release Date:June, 2014

Does the distribution of income within a country become more equal as it grows richer? This paper uses plausibly exogenous variations in trade-weighted world income and international oil price shocks more...



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Rainfall, Financial Development, and Remittances : Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Markus Bruckner.

Release Date:July, 2011

We use annual variation in rainfall to examine the effects that exogenous, transitory income shocks have on remittances in a panel of 42 Sub-Saharan African countries during the period 1960-2007. Our more...



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Food Prices and Political Instability

Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Markus Bruckner.

Release Date:March, 2011

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main more...



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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect

Author/Editor: Markus Bruckner, Rabah Arezki.

Release Date:September, 2010

This paper examines the effect that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that more...



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Resource Windfalls and Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads : The Role of Political Institutions

Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Markus Bruckner.

Release Date:July, 2010

We examine the effect that revenue windfalls from international commodity price shocks have on sovereign bond spreads using panel data for 30 emerging market economies during the period 1997-2007. more...



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Public Investment as a Fiscal Stimulus : Evidence from Japan’s Regional Spending During the 1990s

Author/Editor: Anita Tuladhar, Markus Bruckner.

Release Date:April, 2010

How effective was public investment in stimulating the Japanese economy during the economic stagnation of the 1990s? Using a dataset of regional public investment spending, we find that investment more...



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International Commodity Price Shocks, Democracy, and External Debt

Author/Editor: Markus Bruckner, Rabah Arezki.

Release Date:March, 2010

We examine the effects that international commodity price shocks have on external debt using panel data for a world sample of 93 countries spanning the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that more...



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