Aart Kraay
World Bank
165 Papers
1.4K Citations
Aart Kraay is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 165 publications. Previous affiliations of Aart Kraay include Yale University & International Monetary Fund.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender : does China's zero net foreign asset position make economic sense?
David Dollar,Aart Kraay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address whether it makes economic sense for China to be a net creditor and how they see China's net foreign asset position evolving over the next 20 years, and calibrate a theoretical model of international capital flows featuring diminishing returns, production risk, and sovereign risk.
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When is External Debt Sustainable
Aart Kraay,Vikram Nehru +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically examine the determinants of "debt distress," which they define as periods in which countries resort to exceptional finance in any of three forms: (1) significant arrears on external debt, (2) Paris Club rescheduling, and (3) nonconcessional International Monetary Fund lending.
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The worldwide governance indicators project: answering the critics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize 11 critiques offered by four recent papers and then refute them as either conceptually incorrect or empirically unsubstantiated, concluding that these critiques are either false or incomplete.
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Aggregating governance indicators
TL;DR: In this article, a simple variant of an unobserved component model is used to combine the information from different sources of governance data and country-specific aggregate governance indicators, and the authors illustrate the methodology by constructing aggregate indicators of bureaucratic quality, rule of law, and graft.
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Government matters III: governance indicators for 1996-2002
TL;DR: Kaufmann, Kraay and Zoido-Lobat as discussed by the authors presented estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002.