We provide evidence about voters’ response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … individuals have a higher incentive to recidivate experienced higher recidivism. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent …

municipalities where resident pardoned individuals had a higher incentive to recidivate experienced a higher recidivism rate …. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government’s ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … education expenditures in short term. If sanctions are successful to change the political behavior of Iran in short run (Dizaji …

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade …

sanctions. …

sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …

We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as … well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces …

We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to … Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then compare the military spending of the counterfactual Iran without …