Research Papers and Topics

Published papers:

	“Donor Influence in Multilateral Development Banks:  the Case of the Asian Development Bank,” Review of International Organizations , June 2006, 1(2):173-95. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #70 (99 K)
	“How Do Political Changes Influence U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocations? Evidence from Panel Data” with Robert K. Fleck, Review of Development Economics , May 2006, 10(2):210-23. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #67 (124 K)
	“World Bank Independence: a Model and Statistical Analysis of U.S. Influence” with Robert K. Fleck, Review of Development Economics , May 2006, 10(2):224-40. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #53 (243K)
	“World Bank Lending and Regulation,” Economic Systems, December 2005, 29(4):384-407. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #66 (165 K)
	“Aid and Regulation,” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance , May 2005, 45(2-3):325-45. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #65 (86 K)
	“Reassessing the Role of Constituency in Congressional Voting” with Robert K. Fleck, Public Choice, July 2002, 112:31-53. Working Paper:   Abstract
	“World Bank-Borrower Relations and Project Supervision,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, March 2001, 22(1):191-218. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #32 (171 K)
	“Foreign Aid and Domestic Politics: Voting in Congress and the Allocation of USAID Contracts Across Congressional Districts” with Robert K. Fleck, Southern Economic Journal, January 2001, 67(3):598-617. Working Paper:   Abstract  VCEWP #44 (2131 K)
	“Supervision and Performance: the Case of World Bank Projects,” Journal of Development Economics, June 2000, 62:233-59.
	“Sovereignty and NGOs” in Kendall Stiles, Editor, Global Institutions and Local Empowerment, St. Martins/MacMillan Press, International Political Economy Series, 1999, 48-64. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #40 (62 K)
	“Aid and Sovereignty,” Social Theory and Practice, Spring 1999, 25(1):79-92. Working Paper:   Abstract VCEWP #38 (53 K)

Current research projects:

	"Voting Power in Multilateral Development Banks " with C. Emlen Fischer
	"World Bank Governance and the Credibility of Selectivity" with C. Emlen Fischer