Axel Dreher - Selected Publications#

Geopolitics, Aid and Growth: The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid (with Vera Eichenauer and Kai Gehring), World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming.
GS-Cites: 93

Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited (with Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs), Journal of Conflict Resolution 61: 935-963 (2017).
GS-Cites: 195
Widely-cited in the social media and leading international newspapers.

Government Ideology in Donor and Recipient Countries: Does Political Proximity Matter for the Effectiveness of Aid? (with Anna Minasyan and Peter Nunnenkamp), European Economic Review 79: 80-92 (2015).
GS-Cites: 26

The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council. Money and Influence (with James Vreeland), Cambridge University Press (2014).
Runner up for The 2015 William H. Riker Award for the Best Book in Political Economy
Reviewed in: Academic Council on the United Nations System (2017).
GS-Cites: 92

Development (Paradigm) Failures (with Roland Hodler), Journal of Development Economics 101: 63-74 (2013).
GS-Cites: 26

Do IMF and World Bank programs induce government crises? An empirical analysis (with Martin Gassebner), International Organization 66, 2: 329-358 (2012).
GS-Cites: 54

Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme (with Hannes Öhler and Peter Nunnenkamp), European Economic Review 56: 138-153 (2012).
GS-Cites: 85

Read my lips: the role of information transmission in multilateral reform design (with Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani), Journal of International Economics 84: 86-98 (2011).
GS-Cites: 28

Measuring Globalization - Gauging its Consequences (with Noel Gaston and Pim Martens), New York: Springer (2008).
Reviewed in: Journal of Economic Literature 47, 4: 813-814 (2009), Economica 76, 304: 779-780 (2009), Socialisme & Democratie 65, 12: 53-56 (2008).
GS-Cites: 1079

Does Globalization Affect Growth? Evidence from a new Index of Globalization, Applied Economics 38, 10: 1091-1110 (2006).
GS-Cites: 1977 (second-most cited article in Applied Economics)