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Auerbach, Alan J. (ed.) - 1988

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What's Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring : Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors

Mu, Yingfei; Rubin, Edward; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Regulators often rely on self-reported data to determine compliance. Tolerance for missingness in self-monitoring data may create incentives for local agents to strategically decide when (not) to monitor regulated activities. This paper builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip...

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Why do Bank Boards have Risk Committees?

Stulz, René M.; Tompkins, James G.; Williamson, Rohan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a...

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Do Collateral Sanctions Work? Evidence from the IRS' Passport Certification and Revocation Process

Organ, Paul R.; Ruda, Alex; Slemrod, Joel; Turk, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Penalties for tax evasion are typically financial, but many jurisdictions also utilize collateral sanctions that deny access to some government-provided service. To learn about the effectiveness of such penalties, we examine a U.S. policy restricting passport access for taxpayers with...

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US Sanctions Reinforce the Dollar's Dominance

Dooley, Michael P.; Folkerts-Landau, David F. I.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

has been enhanced by the demonstration that the United States is willing and able to sanction misbehavior. Geopolitically …

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On Wars, Sanctions and Sovereign Default

Bianchi, Javier; Sosa Padilla, César - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper explores the role of restrictions on the use of international reserves as economic sanctions. We develop a simple model of the strategic game between a sanctioning (creditor) country and a sanctioned (debtor) country. We show how the sanctioning country should impose restrictions...

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A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944

Caruana, Leonard - 2001

when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco … regime to rethink the costs of joining the war. Pre-emptive buying of wolfram was also successful. It forced Germany to pay … Germany, was not fully realized. Several special circumstances, in particular the naval blockade and the tendency of sanctions …

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The Golden Revolving Door

Cen, Ling; Cohen, Lauren; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Fan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using both the onset of the US-China trade war in 2018 and the most recent Russia-Ukraine war and associated trade tensions, we show a counterintuitive pattern in global trade. Namely, while the average firm trading with these nations significantly decreases their trade with these jurisdictions...

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Private Sanctions

Hart, Oliver D.; Thesmar, David; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We survey a representative sample of the U.S. population to understand stakeholders' desire to see their firms exit Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 61% of respondents think that firms should exit Russia, regardless of the consequences. Only 37% think that leaving Russia is a purely...

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Pandemic, War, Inflation : Oil Markets at a Crossroads?

Baumeister, Christiane - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had profound effects on the global energy landscape, with some of the longer-lasting effects still unfolding. This paper discusses how these events have reshaped the supply side of the global oil market by focusing on...

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