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  • July 2009
  • Article

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Money
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  • July 24, 2013
  • Article

Detroit Has Filed For Bankruptcy. Now What? The Long View

By: Eric D. Werker and Benjamin Kennedy
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Detroit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Michigan
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  • May 2013
  • Teaching Note

Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (A and B)

By: Eric D. Werker and Ian Cornell
Keywords: Privatization; Energy Industry; Nigeria
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  • 2001
  • Working Paper

Refugees in Arua District: A Human Security Analysis

By: Lucy Hovil and Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Refugees; Safety; Human Needs; Uganda
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  • October 20, 2007
  • Article

A Global Tax Credit

By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Taxation; Credit
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  • 5 Jul 2011 - 6 Jul 2011
  • Other Presentation

Liberia: A Case Study

By: Eric D. Werker and Jasmina Beganovic
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  • June – July 2008
  • Article

A Better Approach to Foreign Aid

By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
Frustration with U.S. foreign aid is widespread. At the same time, flows of private development finance—including foreign direct investment and remittances—have begun to dwarf official aid. We suggest a new approach that harnesses the power of private development... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Taxation; Welfare or Wellbeing; United States
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  • March 2007
  • Article

Local Company Politics: A Proposal

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Corrupt politicians, and poor government more generally, are commonly viewed as a primary barrier to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success.... View Details
Keywords: Behavior
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  • August 2013
  • Supplement

MYTO New Entrant IPP

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Privatization; Energy Industry; Nigeria
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  • March 4, 2009
  • Article

How Globalization's Losers Win

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Globalization
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Testimony on 'Foreign Assistance in the Americas'

By: Eric D. Werker
Keywords: International Finance; International Relations; North and Central America; Latin America; South America; West Indies
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  • 2002
  • Working Paper

Refugees in Kyangwali Settlement: Constraints on Economic Freedoms

By: Eric D. Werker
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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details
  • Article

The End of Foreign Investment in Russia?

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Russia
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  • 2015
  • Article

Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World

By: Faisal Z Ahmed and Eric D. Werker
The conflict following the Arab Spring is not the first wave of civil war in the Muslim world in recent time. From the mid-1980s to the end of the century, an average of one in 10 predominantly Muslim countries experienced violent civil war in any given year. We... View Details
Keywords: War; International Relations; Religion; Energy Sources
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?

By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmed
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  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed.   Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • January 2009 (Revised October 2011)
  • Teaching Note

Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (A) (TN)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Eric D. Werker
Teaching Note for 709037. View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Taxation
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  • June 2007 (Revised February 2008)
  • Teaching Note

Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Eric D. Werker and Renee Kim
Keywords: Money; Borrowing and Debt; Trade; Poverty
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