Hannes Öhler
Chair of Development Economics and International Economics
Research Associate

E-Mail: hoehler@uni-goettingen.de

CV (PDF)

Room: Oec 2-201
Office hours: upon appointment


Research Fields

• Foreign Aid
  
• Non-Govermental Organizations (NGOs)
  
• International Organizations
  
• Economics and Philosophy
  

Publications

• Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Axel Dreher), European Economic Review, forthcoming.
  
  
• Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs: A Panel Tobit Analysis (with Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Johannes Weisser), Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
  
  
• Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? (with Peter Nunnenkamp), World Development, forthcoming.
  
  
• Does Government Ideology affect Personal Happiness? A Test (with Axel Dreher), Economics Letters, 111, 2: 161-165 (2011).
  
  
• Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors (with Peter Nunnenkamp), World Development 39, 3: 308-323 (2011).
  

Working Papers

• Donations to US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: How (Un-)Informed Are Private Donors? (with Peter Nunnenkamp), Kiel Institute for the World Economy: Kiel Working Paper 1680, February 2010.
  
  
• Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid (with Peter Nunnenkamp), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 38, July 2010.
  
  
• Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 29, March 2010.
  

Refereeing


Oxford Development Studies, Public Choice, Review of International Organizations, World Development