• openAccess   Aid and its impact on the donor’s export industry – The Dutch case 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Klasen, Stephan Springer (2017-08)
      This paper models the link between Dutch development aid and Dutch exports to 142 recipient countries over the period from 1964 to 2011. Given that Dutch aid policy drastically changed in 1999, the model is estimated ...
    • closedAccess   Aid and Trade – A Donor's Perspective 

      Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Klasen, Stephan; Herzer, Dierk Taylor & Francis (2009)
      One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by ...
    • closedAccess   Are regional trading agreements beneficial?. Static and dynamic panel gravity models 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Horsewood, N. Elsevier (2009)
      This paper evaluates the effects of preferential agreements on trade between trade group members and non-members using a static and a dynamic gravity model. The gravity model is estimated using recent panel data techniques ...
    • openAccess   Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014) 

      Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Elsevier (2015-06)
      In Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012), we used time-series methods to investigate the impact of aid on per capita GDP. Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (LMT, 2014) criticize our econometric approach, our interpretation, and our data-handling ...
    • openAccess   Does Aid Promote Donor Exports? Commercial Interest versus Instrumental Philanthropy 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Parra Robles, María Dolores; Klasen, Stephan John Wiley & Sons (2014)
      This paper investigates by means of advanced panel data techniques whether bilateral aid has been successful in promoting bilateral exports to recipient countries during the period 1988–2007 and to what extent changes in ...
    • closedAccess   Does foreign aid promote recipient exports to donor countries? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Herzer, Dierk; Klasen, Stephan; Cardozo, Adriana Springer (2013)
      This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the effect of foreign aid on exports of aid recipients to donor countries. Most of the theoretical work emphasises the possible negative impact of aid on recipient ...
    • closedAccess   Does foreign aid really raise per capita income? A time series perspective 

      Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Dreher, Axel; Herzer, Dierk; Klasen, Stephan; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Wiley (2012-02)
      We analyze the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid. We employ annual data and five-year averages and carefully examine the time-series properties of the data. Panel estimations with dynamic feasible ...
    • openAccess   Does German Development Aid boost German Exports and German Employment? A Sectoral Level Analysis 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Klasen, Stephan; Johannsen, Florian De Gruyter (2016)
      This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to aid recipient countries with data from 1978–2011. The findings indicate that ...
    • openAccess   Does German development aid promote German exports? 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Klasen, Stephan; Larch, Mario Wiley-Blackwell (2009-08)
      This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that, in the long run, German ...
    • openAccess   Does the designation of least developed country status promote exports? 

      Klasen, Stephan; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Bruckner, Matthias Routledge (2020-10-11)
      In this paper we examine to what extent developing countries export more as a result of having the official Least Developed Country (LDC) status. We estimate a gravity model of trade over the period 1973–2013, in which ...
    • openAccess   Is Aid for Trade Effective? A Panel Quantile Regression Approach 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Rehwald, Kai Wiley (2017)
      This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) leads to greater exports in recipient countries. Using panel data and panel quantile regression techniques, our results suggest that total AfT disbursements promote the ...
    • openAccess   Trade Openness and Income: A Tale of Two Regions 

      Camarero, Mariam; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Tamarit, Cecilio John Wiley & Sons Ltd (2015-08-18)
      In this article we present evidence of the long-run effect of trade openness on income per worker for two regions that have followed different liberalization strategies, namely Asia and Latin America. A model that ...