Axel Dreher

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 Co-Director of the Center for European Studies (CefES), Faculty Associate of AidData, Fellow of CEPR, CESifo, KOF, and the European Development Network, as well as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is a first-generation academic.