Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts
المؤلفون: Andersen, Joergen Juel, Johannesen, Niels, Rijkers, Bob
بيانات النشر: University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW)
مصطلحات موضوعية: ddc:330, D73, F35, P16, foreign aid, corruption, offshore financial centers
الوصف: Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are not confounded by contemporaneous shocks such as civil conflicts, natural disasters and financial crises, and are robust to instrumenting with predetermined aid commitments. The implied leakage rate is around 7.5% at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are consistent with aid capture in the most aid-dependent countries.
نوع الوثيقة: report
اللغة: English
Relation: Series: CEBI Working Paper Series; No. 07/20; gbv-ppn:1761097768; http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258921; RePEc:kud:kucebi:2007
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258921
Rights: http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.7CA7DE19
قاعدة البيانات: BASE