@CefesCenter

High-standard research center at the University of Milano-Bicocca advancing the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the European economy.

 Milan, Italy
cefes-dems.unimib.it/
Joined October 2019
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelOct 8
Can development aid reduce migration? New GODAD working paper by @NarcisseCha uses geocoded aid and census data from Senegal. Doubling local aid per capita reduces internal migration by 9.8% and irregular international migration by 9.7%. godad.me/papers/
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelSep 14
PEIO Call for Papers – submission deadline end of this week!
Axel Dreher@DreherAxelFeb 5
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@The_PEIO) at the University of Texas at Austin, January 7-9, 2027. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks Terry Chapman, Dan Nielson, @goodhouses, @NateMJensen for hosting!
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelSep 8
I've just made my last first-round editorial decision at RIO. Here are some thoughts on what I've learned and the publication process more broadly: linkedin.com/pulse/what-20-y…

What 20 Years and 3,000 Submissions Taught Me About Academic Publishing

I have just made my last decision on a first-round submission as editor of the Review of International Organizations. After more than 20 years, I have handed new submissions over to Christopher Kilby...

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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelJul 1
New RIO (@The_PEIO) editor: Christopher Kilby After more than 20 years as editor of the Review of International Organizations, I'm stepping back from new submissions. As of today, Christopher will take over. I will continue with resubmissions for papers I originally handled.
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelAug 9
Who should decide how development aid is spent? I spoke with Das Parlament about the GIZ and German development cooperation. My main point: in democratic partner countries, governments should have much more say over priorities and projects. das-parlament.de/aussen/entw…
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelJul 20
Do higher oil prices fuel conflict? New column with Maximilian Herrmann and Jingke Pan: organized violence moves toward oil locations and away from nearby areas, while protests spread outward. Aggregation can hide the resource curse:
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@voxeuJul 20
How oil price shocks redraw the map of conflict Maximilian Herrmann (SAP), Jingke Pan & @DreherAxel @UniHeidelberg ow.ly/OHR750ZpWpE
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelJul 1
New RIO (@The_PEIO) editor: Christopher Kilby After more than 20 years as editor of the Review of International Organizations, I'm stepping back from new submissions. As of today, Christopher will take over. I will continue with resubmissions for papers I originally handled.
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelJun 30
What happens when Wagner enters African conflict zones? New GODAD paper by @lilleberlin and Lev Lvovskiy: Western bilateral donors retreat, while the World Bank initially reengages – more projects and disbursements. After 2022, that WB premium declines. godad.me/papers/
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@cepr_orgJun 25
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21648 Refineries, Pipelines and Petroleum Fields - The Impact of Oil on Conflict Around the World Axel Dreher @DreherAxel, Jingke Pan, Maximilian Herrmann @UniHeidelberg ow.ly/3kHE50ZgjcQ #CEPR_DE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
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Silvia Marchesi@SilviaMarches12Jun 10
The program for the 8th International Conference on European Economics and Politics (@CefesCenter) is now available. 📍 ETH Zurich 📅 14–15 July 2026 Keynote speakers: Lint Barrage and @dominic_rohner Program: editorialexpress.com/confere… #EconTwitter #Economics #PoliticalEconomy
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelJun 3
What happened after the USAID shutdown? New GODAD working paper by Marcella Nicolini & Fabio Sabatini: exposed African regions saw falling nightlights and rising acute food insecurity, especially where vulnerability was high and institutions weaker. godad.me/
Fabio Sabatini@FabbioSabatiniJun 3
The impact of the USAID shutdown on Africa, as seen from space and on the ground. M. Nicolini and I study the effects of the aid cuts by linking GODAD data on USAID projects to satellite-based measures of economic activity and IPC food insecurity indicators. 1/11
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelApr 16
The Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD) invites submissions to its new working paper series. If you have a paper using sub-national aid data, let us know. First contributions by Jimmy Graham, Andrea Fazio, Marcella Nicolini, ...: godad.me/papers/
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⌛️Only a few days left to submit your paper for the 8th International Conference on European Economics and Politics! Deadline: 15 April Please submit full papers via our online submission form: editorialexpress.com/confere… For more information: cefes-dems.unimib.it/events/…
CefES Research Center@CefesCenterJan 25
📢 Call for Papers 👇 8th Annual Conference on European Economics and Politics, @KOFETH_en, @unimib, @cepr 📍 Hosted by KOF-ETH Zurich 📅 July 14–15, 2026 💡 Keynote speakers: Lint Barrage (ETH Zurich and CEPR) Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR)
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelFeb 5
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@The_PEIO) at the University of Texas at Austin, January 7-9, 2027. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks Terry Chapman, Dan Nielson, @goodhouses, @NateMJensen for hosting!
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelFeb 2
Check out the papers of the 18th PEIO (@The_PEIO, IE University) at peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, on January 7-9, 2027. Thanks to Dan Nielson et al. for hosting us! @goodhouses, @NateMJensen
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📢 Call for Papers 👇 8th Annual Conference on European Economics and Politics, @KOFETH_en, @unimib, @cepr 📍 Hosted by KOF-ETH Zurich 📅 July 14–15, 2026 💡 Keynote speakers: Lint Barrage (ETH Zurich and CEPR) Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR)
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21003 Financial Market Effects of FOMC Communication: Evidence from a New Event-Study Database @migacosta, Andrea Ajello @federalreserve, @michaelbauer_hh, Francesca Loria @federalreserve, @_SiLviA_mA ow.ly/Gb6g50XY1lc #CEPR_MEF #EconTwitter
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Axel Dreher@DreherAxelJan 12
Program and papers for the 18th PEIO (@The_PEIO, IE University, Jan 29-31) are now online at peio.me. Thanks to Zoe Ge, Nikitas Konstantinidis and Irene Menéndez González for hosting us! @ZoeGe37 @nikkon7 @IEuniversity
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Jonas Tallberg@JonasTallbergJan 8
New special issue of @The_PEIO on "Public Opinion and International Organizations." In the introduction, we map the field, place the SI papers & identify ways forward: rdcu.be/eXt2R. 🙏@DreherAxel, all reviewers, and the SI contributors!
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Sabrina Arias@sabrinabarias29 Sep 2025
As the US steps back from leading in global governance institutions, China has increasingly stepped into leadership roles, serving as head of WHO, FAO, and other important UN agencies in recent years. In new (open access!) work with @rachelhulvey in @The_PEIO, we ask: why? 1/5
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Yu Wang@y1w3politics22 Sep 2025
We are releasing the 2024 version of our dataset in "China Visits: a Dataset of Chinese Leaders' Foreign Visits" @The_PEIO . The dataset should be useful to scholars in #InternationalRelations #InternationalPoliticalEconomy Harvard Dataverse: dataverse.harvard.edu/datase…
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