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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    "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 ...
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    Are Americans more gung-ho than Europeans? Evidence from tourism in Israel during the Intifada 

    Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja
    Analysis of cross-sectional data on tourism to Israel during the Intifada reveals some factors driving international tourist behaviour. Much of the heterogeneity in the observed response of different nationalities can be ...
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    Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific 

    Fielding, David
    The impact of aid inflows on relative prices and output is ambiguous. Aid inflows that increase domestic expenditure are likely to cause real exchange rate appreciation, ceteris paribus. However, if this expenditure raises ...
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    Does trust extend beyond the village? Experimental trust and social distance in Cameroon 

    Etang, Alvin; Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen
    In this paper we use experimental data collected in rural Cameroon to quantify the effect of social distance on trust and altruism. Our measure of social distance is one that is relevant to everyday economic interactions: ...
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    The volatility of aid 

    Fielding, David; Mavrotas, George
    Issues related to the volatility of aid flows are now becoming crucial in view of their relevance to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper examines aid volatility using data for 66 aid recipients ...
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    Asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy: the case of South Africa 

    Fielding, David; Shields, Kalvinder
    PPP is unlikely to hold instantaneously for all commodities across the different regions of a monetary area. It is therefore possible that monetary expansions or contractions will have different effects in different regions, ...
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    Health Aid and Governance in Developing Countries 

    Fielding, David
    Despite anecdotal evidence that the quality of governance in recipient countries affects the allocation of international health aid, there is no quantitative evidence on the magnitude of this effect, or on which dimensions ...
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    Inflation Volatility and Economic Development: Evidence from Nigeria 

    Fielding, David
    We use monthly time-series data on the prices of 96 individual products in the 37 states of Nigeria to analyze the factors that drive inflation volatility. Among the significant determinants of volatility are average ...
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