Buying Votes and International Organizations: The Dirty Work-Hypothesis
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- Dreher, Axel & Lang, Valentin & Rosendorff, B. Peter & Vreeland, James Raymond, 2018. "Buying Votes and International Organizations: The Dirty Work-Hypothesis," CEPR Discussion Papers 13290, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
United Nations Security Council; voting; aid; IMF;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
- F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2018-12-17 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2018-12-17 (Positive Political Economics)
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