• Login
    Search 
    •   OUR Archive Home
    • Search
    •   OUR Archive Home
    • Search
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Search

    Show Advanced FiltersHide Advanced Filters

    Filters

    Use filters to refine the search results.

    Now showing items 1-10 of 42

    • Sort Options:
    • Relevance
    • Title A-Z
    • Title Z-A
    • Date published, oldest first
    • Date published, newest first
    • Date added, oldest first
    • Date added, newest first
    • Results Per Page:
    • 5
    • 10
    • 20
    • 40
    • 60
    • 80
    • 100
    Thumbnail

    Measuring aid effectively in tests of aid effectiveness 

    Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen
    In the extensive empirical literature on aid effectiveness, aid is always measured as a share of GDP. However, measuring aid in real dollars per capita is also consistent with standard growth theory. We show that the choice ...
    Thumbnail

    What Explains Changes in the Level of Abuse Against Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War? 

    Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja
    Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that an ...
    Thumbnail

    Understanding the Etiology of Electoral Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe 

    Fielding, David
    Recent theoretical and empirical work indicates that incumbent governments are likely to attempt to influence election outcomes by violent means (rather than by bribery and fraud) when their level of popular support is ...
    Thumbnail

    Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa 

    Adrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, Panicos; Fielding, David
    We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract ...
    Thumbnail

    Does Aid Work for the Poor? 

    McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; Knowles, Stephen
    This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the ...
    Thumbnail

    Cows and conquistadors: a comment on the colonial origins of comparative development 

    Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian
    Robust estimation of the impact of political institutions on economic development requires the identification of valid instruments for institutional quality. Acemoglu et al. [2001] introduced the use of colonial settler ...
    Thumbnail

    "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." A study of political violence and counter-insurgency in Egypt 

    Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja
    This paper analyses a newly collected time-series database measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt. Attention is focused on the interaction between politically motivated attacks by Islamists and the ...
    Thumbnail

    Credit Booms, Financial Fragility and Banking Crises 

    Fielding, David; Rewilak, Johan
    Recent evidence indicates that surges in capital inflows and credit booms can increase the probability of a subsequent banking crisis. Using a new country-level panel database on financial fragility, we take this analysis ...
    Thumbnail

    Mapping Medieval and Modern Chauvinism in England 

    Fielding, David
    There is evidence for the long-run persistence of geographical variation in tolerance towards other ethnicities. However, existing studies of tolerance use data from countries with long-standing patterns of ethnic diversity, ...
    Thumbnail

    Education spending and Wagner’s law: New international evidence 

    Millin, Mark; Fielding, David; Dorian, Owen
    This paper examines the association between economic development and two measures of public spending on education, namely the ‘national effort’ (total spending as a percentage of GDP) and ‘budget share’ (total spending as ...
    • «
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • . . .
    • 5
    • »

    Search OUR Archive | Feedback | Copyright and Disclaimer | Library
     © University of Otago Library, 65 Albany St, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
    Email: ourarchive@otago.ac.nz
     

     

    About Usage Statistics

    Filter By

    Author
    Fielding, David (42)
    Knowles, Stephen (11)Etang, Alvin (5)Shortland, Anja (3)Torres, Sebastian (3)... View MorePublication Date2010 - 2020 (27)2005 - 2009 (15)Research Type
    Discussion Paper (42)
    Access LevelOpen (42)

    Theses

    Deposit Your ThesisWatch Thesis Deposit demoThesis Information guide

    OUR Archive

    LoginAbout OUR ArchiveOUR Archive Policy

    Search OUR Archive | Feedback | Copyright and Disclaimer | Library
     © University of Otago Library, 65 Albany St, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
    Email: ourarchive@otago.ac.nz