Professoren
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro

seit August 2004 Mitglied des Sachverständigenrates zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen EntwicklungBooks

Model, Myth or Miracle? Reassessing Government's Role in the East Asian Experience, 1999, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.

Political Credibility and Economic Development, 1995, McMillan, London, (with Silvio Borner and Aymo Brunetti).

Wirtschaft zwischen Anarchie und Rechtsstaat, 1993, Verlag Ruegger, Chur.


Book Editor

Africa and Asia in the Global Economy, forthcoming, The United Nations University Press, Editor and author of one chapter, (with Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court and Machiko Nissanke)

Economics Today: Konsens und Kontroverse in der modernen Ökonomie, 1998, NZZ Verlag,
Editor and author of one chapter (with Aymo Brunetti, Peter Kugler and Stefan Schaltegger)


Articles in Refereed Journals

"Spillovers Through Banking Centers: A Panel Data Analysis" forthcoming Journal of International Money and Finance (with Caroline Van Rijckeghem).

“A Free Press is Bad News for Corruption", forthcoming Journal of Public Economics (with Aymo Brunetti).

"Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?", 2002, American Economic Review, 92, 4, 1126-1137, (with Alberto Alesina).

“The Puzzle of the Swiss Interest Rate Island: Stylized Facts and a New Interpretation”, 2002, Aussenwirtschaft, (Swiss Review of International Economic Relations, 57, 1, 49-63 (with Peter Kugler).

“Sources of Contagion: Is it Finance or Trade”, 2001, Journal of International Economics 54, 2, 293-308, (with Caroline Van Rijckeghem).

”Bureaucratic Corruption and the Rate of Temptation: How Much do Wages in the Civil Service Affect Corruption?”, 2001, Journal of Development Economics 65, 2, 307-331, (with Caroline Van Rijckeghem).

"Foreign Aid, Institutions and Development: Lessons from Four Decades of International Development Cooperation", 2000, Aussenwirtschaft, (Swiss Review of International Economic Relations) 55, 2, 291-303

”Another Tale of Two Cities ”, 2000, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 156, 2, 313-24, (with Aymo Brunetti)

"Credibility of Rules and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector", 1998, World Bank Economic Review 12, 3, 353-384, (with Aymo Brunetti and Gregory Kisunko).

"Inequality in Transition",1998, Economic Systems 22, 1, 77-80.

"Investment and Institutional Uncertainty, A Comparative Study of Different Uncertainty Measures" (1998), Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 134, 3, 513-533, (with Aymo Brunetti).

"Economic Transformation and Income Distribution: Some Evidence from the Baltic Countries", (1996) IMF Staff Papers 43,3 587-604, (with Peter Cornelius).

"Political Sources of Growth: A Critical Note on Measurement" (1995), Public Choice 82, 1-2, 125-134, (with Aymo Brunetti).

"Policy Reform and Institutional Uncertainty: The Case of Nicaragua", 1995, Kyklos 48, 43-64, (with Silvio Borner and Aymo Brunetti).

"Political Credibility and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries", 1994, Constitutional Political Economy 5, 23-43, (with Aymo Brunetti).


Studies and Occasional Papers

Five Essays on Economic Causes of Corruption, 2002, WWZ-Forschungsbericht 02/01

“Firm Size and the Business Environment”, 2001, International Finance Corporation Discussion Paper No. 43, The World Bank (with Mirjam Schiffer)

"Strengthening Africa's Participation in the Global Economy", 1998, The United Nations University, (with Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court and Machiko Nissanke).

"Investment and Institutional Uncertainty, A Comparative Study of Different Uncertainty Measures" 1997, International Finance Corporation Technical Paper 4, Washington DC (with Aymo Brunetti).

”How Businesses See Government” 1998, International Finance Corporation Discussion Paper 33, Washington DC (with Aymo Brunetti and Gregory Kisunko).

"Institutional Obstacles to Latin American Growth" 1992, ICEG Occasional Paper No. 24, San Francisco: International Center for Economic Growth (with Silvio Borner and Aymo Brunetti).

Contributions to Books

“Obstacles Facing Smaller Business in Developing Countries”, in Pfefferman, Guy (ed.) Pathways Out of Poverty, International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C. forthcoming

“Wachstum und Ungleichheit – Eine unverträgliche Beziehung?“, 2002, Die Volkswirtschaft 1 (with Matthias Oschinski)

"Explaining External Performance in Africa", forthcoming in Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court Machiko Nissanke and Beatrice Weder, Africa and Asia in the Global Economy, The United Nations University Press.

“Globalization, Inequality and Poverty: A comment on David Dollar”, forthcoming in proceedings of the conference “Economic Growth and Sustainable Development”, October 18-19, Thun.

“Institutions, Corruption and Development and their Ramifications for International Cooperation”, 2002, in Human Development and the Environment, van Ginkel, Hans et. al. (eds.), UNU Millennium Series, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.

“Capital Inflows and Crisis: Does the Mix Matter? – A Comment on Fernándes-Arias Eduardo and Ricardo Hausmann” 2001, in Foreign Direct Investment Versus Other Flows to Latin America, OECD Development Centre Seminars, OECD, Paris.

"Drei Strategien der Wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung" 1998, in Aymo Brunetti, Peter Kugler Stefan Schaltegger and Beatrice Weder (eds.), Economics Today, 1998, NZZ Verlag, Zuerich.

”Political Factors matter - Do they? A Discussion of the Empirical Evidence”, 1998, in Borner and Paldam (eds.): The Political Dimension of Growth, Macmillan Press, London.

"Legal Systems and Economic Performance: the Empirical Evidence" 1995, in Malcom Rowat, Waleed Malik and Maria Dakolias (eds.), Judicial Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank Technical Paper No. 280, World Bank, Washington.

"La Incertidumbre Institucional como el Obstaculo Central al Crecimiento de America Latina" 1991, in Hernando de Soto and Stephan Schmidheiny (eds.): Las Nuevas Reglas del Juego, Editorial Oveja Negra, Bogota, (with Silvio Borner and Aymo Brunetti).

"Importe von Rüstungsgütern: eine Polit-Oekonomische Analyse" 1992, in Unheimliche Geschäfte, Chronos, Bern, (with Thomas Straubhaar).

"La Incertidumbre Institucional o como jugar al Fudbol con Reglas inestables" 1991, FUNDES Serie Dialogo No. 4, Bogota, (with Silvio Borner and Aymo Brunetti).

"Enforcement Problems in an International Setting" 1990, in Economic and Financial Prospects Nr. 5, Basel: Swiss Bank Corporation.


Project Reports and Other Papers

"More Open Economies have better Governments", 1999, Economic Series No. 9905, University of the Saarland (with Aymo Brunetti).

“Reform in Transition Economies: How far have they come?", 2001, IMF Discussion Paper 01/114.

"Catastrophic Political Risk versus Creeping Expropriation: A Cross-Country Analysis of Risks in Private Infrastructure Financing in Emerging Markets", 2000, WWZ Discussion Paper 00/01 (with Mirjam Schiffer).

"Bureaucratic Structure and Performance in Africa", 1999, paper presented at the conference

"Global Development Network" organized by the World Bank in Bonn, December 5-8, (with Julius Court und Petra Kristen).

"How Firms in 72 Countries Rate Their Institutional Environment", 1988, Basel: WWZ Discussion Paper No. 9811 (with Aymo Brunetti and Gregory Kisunko).

”Any Lessons from East Asia?”, 1998, Basel: WWZ Discussion paper No. 9806.

"Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region-by-Region Results from a Worldwide Private Sector Survey" 1997, World Bank Policy Research Paper No. 1759, The World Bank (with Aymo Brunetti and Gregory Kisunko).

"Credibility of Rules and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector" 1997, World Bank Policy Research Paper No. 1760, The World Bank (with Aymo Brunetti and Gregory Kisunko).

"Institutions in Transition: Predictability of Rules and Economic Performance in Transition Economies" 1997, World Bank Policy Research Paper No. 1809, The World Bank (with Aymo Brunetti and Gregory Kisunko).


Recent Working Papers

“Estimating Returns to Emerging Market Lending, 1970-2000” (with Christoph Klingen and Jeromin Zettelmeyer)

“Will Basel II Affect International Capital Flows to Emerging Markets?”, 2002, OECD Development Center, Technical Paper No. 199 (with Michael Wedow).

“The Failure of Long Run Uncovered Interest Rate Parity For Swiss Franc Assets" 2002, (with Peter Kugler).

“The Effectiveness of International Aid and Debt Relief: A Selective Review of the Literature” 2002, (with Thorsten Nestmann).

"The International Transmission of Financial Shocks: What is the Role of Value at Risk Models?", 2001, (with Daniel Borer).

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