Christopher Kilby, PhD

James Joo Jin Kim Endowed Chair in Economics | Villanova School of Business Villanova University

Villanova PA

Christopher Kilby, PhD, is an expert in political economy of development aid and how it is influenced by U.S. politics and world events.

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Areas of Expertise

Business

Development Economics

Foreign Aid

Macroeconomic Theory

Multilateral Aid

Microeconomic Theory

Econometrics

World Bank

Biography

Dr. Christopher Kilby's focus is on the political economy of foreign aid, a topic at the intersection of economics and political science. His work includes statistical analysis that examines the influence of the U.S. and other major donors on the behavior of international financial institutions—such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank—as well as the domestic politics of U.S. bilateral aid and the impact of aid on developing countries.

Education

Stanford University

PhD

Harvard University

Select Accomplishments

Research Excellence Award

2013–2016
The Elenore and Robert F. Moran Sr. Center for Global Leadership

McDonough Family Faculty Award

2015
Villanova School of Business

Summer Research Fellowship

2009
Villanova University

Affiliations

Book Review Editor, Review of International Organizations
Editorial Board Member, Review of International Organizations

Select Media Appearances

Angus Deaton, His Nobel Prize and Foreign Aid

Brookings

2015-10-20

Berkeley's Thad Dunning found that foreign aid had a positive effect on democracy in Africa after the Cold War. Duke's Sarah Bermeo found that after 1992 foreign aid from democratic donors was associated with an increase in the likelihood of a democratic transition (aid from non-democratic donors—such as China—did not have this impact). Similarly, Villanova's Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby found a positive relationship between aid and democracy.

Lagarde Says Debt Among IMF Top Concerns

UPI

2011-07-06

Under pressure on many fronts, Christine Lagarde used her first news conference as managing director of the International Monetary Fund to lay out her concerns and to suggest ways to shore up financial markets around the world... "The memory of the IMF's mismanagement of the Asian finance crisis in the late 1990s still lingers, making the IMF's performance this time round all the more important for the long-term reputation of the institution," said Christopher Kilby, an associate professor of economics at the Villanova School of Business.

Select Academic Articles

With a Little Help From My Friends: Global Electioneering and World Bank Lending

Journal of Development Economics

Kersting, E. & Kilby, C.

2016

Informal Influence in the Inter-American Development Bank

Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid

Bland, E. & Kilby, C.

2015

Assessing the Impact of World Bank Preparation on Project Outcomes