 | 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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