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Axel Dreher (born September 17, 1972) is a German economist.[1]
He earned a master's degree from the University of Mannheim in 1999, and a Ph.D. in 2003. He is among the 500 top economists of the world according to the IDEAS/RePEc. [2] According to research.com he is Germany's best Political Scientist and ranks second in Economics and Finance there.[3] [4] ScholarGPS includes him as a top-300 economist and among the leading 10,000 scientists of all fields worldwide.[5]
As professor of economics at the University of Göttingen and assistant professor at the universities of Mannheim, Exeter, Konstanz and ETH Zurich he has worked in fields including:
- the public-choice-analysis of international organizations, especially International Monetary Fund and World Bank
- economic development, especially foreign aid
- public economics, especially corruption and shadow economy
Dreher is professor of international and development politics at the Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg.[1] He developed the KOF Index of Globalization at ETH in Zürich, is part of the team providing the Geocoded Official Development Dataset (GODAD)[6] and is editor-in-chief of the Review of International Organizations. He is a first-generation academic.
- ^ a b "Relations cordial again: Europeans drop plans to replace the IMF". www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ "Economist Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org.
- ^ "Economics and Finance Ranking".
- ^ "Political Science Ranking".
- ^ "ScholarGPS ID: 23630344076082".
- ^ "GODAD".