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Following Turkey’s application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly … agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the production and exportation of relatively low-price, low-quality varieties of … asymmetric changes in the trade volumes of the incumbent countries of the EU as a result of the EU-Turkey CU. By examining …
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to survey the recent development of municipal finance: Britain, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. This paper firstly …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity - measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer - positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European Community Household Panel to ask whether local density...
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We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain … using data from Britain's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-2, 199-2001,Natsal-3, 2010-2012). The …
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with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014 …. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO countries over the period 2010-2018. The results suggest that … that did not experience such a large change of government since the NATO summit in 2014. Countries that experienced a large …
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,776 respondents from nine members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Quasi-experimental evidence …
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body delegates decision-making to a subset of the members, as describes, e.g., the United Nations Security Council (UNSC …
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Twenty years of negotiations over reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are yet to bear fruit. We use …
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The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...
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We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977–2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...
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