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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021
What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211730
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The Sword and the Shield : The Economics of Targeted Sanctions
Ahn, Daniel P. - 2019
estimate the impact on firm performance from smart sanctions deployed by the U.S. and EU against Russia beginning in 2014. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871020
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The Global Sanctions Data Base – Release 3 : COVID-19, Russia, and Multilateral Sanctions
Syropoulos, Constantinos; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; … - 2022
period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods – COVID-19 and the war between Russia and … trade. We also obtain estimates of the effects on trade of the 2014 sanctions on Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241203
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Do China and Russia Undermine US Sanctions? Evidence from DiD and Event Study Estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries’ trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … sanctions. We find no evidence for systematic sanction busting. Russia does not change its trade patterns with sanctioned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241320
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Trade Blocs and Trade Wars During the Interwar Period
Jacks, David S. - 2019
What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866379
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New Region, New Chances : Does Moving Regionally for University Shape Later Job Mobility?
Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility but is primarily descriptive. We contribute the identification of the effect of mobility upon high-school graduation on subsequent mobility across labour market regions. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077012
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Economic Determinants of Regional Trade Agreements Revisited Using Machine Learning
Blöthner, Simon; Larch, Mario - 2021
While traditional empirical models using determinants like size and trade costs are able to predict RTA formation reasonably well, we demonstrate that allowing for machine detected non-linear patterns helps to improve the predictive power of RTA formation substantially. We employ machine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216253
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Isolating a Culture of Son Preference Among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri Parents in Soviet-Era Russia
Schief, Matthias; Vogt, Sonja; Churilova, Elena; … - 2023
sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late … 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than those of other ethnic groups in Russia. This finding suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347353
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Russians' "Impressionable Years" : Life Experience During the Exit from Communism and Putin-Era Beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
This article links Russians' individual experiences during the late-Gorbachev and early-Yeltsin years to the beliefs those same individuals espoused in the Putin era, over a decade later. Drawing on questions, some of which are retrospective, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830108
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Style Consistency and Mutual Fund Returns : The Case of Russia
Bayarmaa, Adiya - 2019
This paper carries out style analysis for Russian mutual funds using monthly data from the National Managers’ Association over the period January 2008-December 2017; specifically, it applies the RSBA method developed by Sharpe (1992) for evaluating the impact of style on returns, and uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871757