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2011 Australasian

Public Choice

Conference

Working paper Versions of Forthcoming Papers

These are all the original versions of the papers, and differ somewhat from the versions that will be published.

Etang, E., Fielding, D. and Knowles, S. (2011) "Does Trust Extend Beyond the Village? Experimental Trust and Social Distance in Cameroon," Experimental Economics (forthcoming) [Otago discussion paper version]

Demetriades, P. and Fielding, D. (2011) “Information, Institutions and Banking Sector Development in West Africa,” Economic Inquiry (forthcoming) [Otago discussion paper version]

Fielding, D. and Shields, K. (2011) "Regional Asymmetries in the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Prices: Evidence from US Cities," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) [Otago discussion paper version]

Fielding, D. (2010) "Health Aid and Governance in Developing Countries," Health Economics (forthcoming) [Otago discussion paper version]

Fielding, D. and Shortland, A. (2010) "'An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth.' A Study of
Political Violence and Counter-Insurgency in Egypt," Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) [Otago discussion paper version]

Etang, A., Fielding, D. and Knowles, S. (2010) "Survey Trust, Experimental Trust and
ROSCA Membership in Rural Cameroon," Journal of International Development
(forthcoming) [Otago discussion paper version]

Ongoing Research and Working papers

Aid and Social and Economic Development

This work is joint with Stephen Knowles, Mark McGillivray at Deakin University and Seb Torres at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. We're looking at how to model different dimensions of social and economic development simultaneously, and to capture the impact of foreign aid on these development indicators. Some of our recent working papers are:

A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education [PDF]

Measuring Aid Effectively in Tests of Aid Effectiveness [PDF]

The Economics of Violent Conflict

This is joint work with Anja Shortland at Brunel University and Madeline Penny at Oxford University. We're looking at the drivers of violent conflict in the Middle East and Latin America. We have one paper on insurgency and counter-insurgency in Egypt (see above), and another on support for the Arab-Israeli peace process:

What Causes Changes in Opinion about the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process? [abstract]

We're also looking at the links between conflict intensity and tourism in Egypt and Israel. We already have some results for Israel in:

Does Television Terrify Tourists? Effects of US Television News on Demand for Tourism in Israel [abstract],

and working on conflict dynamics in the civil war in Peru [PDF].

Monetary Policy and Banking

My research on African monetary policy and banking is still chugging on after 20 years. Most recently, I have a couple of working papers with Panicos Demetriades and Svetlana Adrianova at the University of Leicester and Badi Baltagi at Syracuse that look at determinants of commercial banking performance:

The African Credit Trap [PDF]

You might also want to take a look at the book on the CFA Franc Zone that I edited.

Kalvinder Shields (Melbourne University) and I are also investigating the impact of monetary policy on disaggregated prices - disaggregating by region and by income group, to see if there are any notable asymmetries in the effect of monetary policy on different sorts of people. Our most recent paper is forthcoming in the Oxford Bulletin (see above).

Aid Allocation Decisions

In addition to the forthcoming Health Economics paper listed above, I'm working on the determinants of the size of the emergency relief effort by western countries in different developing country disasters [PDF].