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Foreign influence and domestic policy: a survey
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019
In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018258
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2019
We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target … matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN sanctions … reduces life expectancy by about 1.2–1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4–0.5 years under US sanctions is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179832
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Hanging together or being hung separately: The strategic power of coalitions where bargaining occurs with incomplete information
Konrad, Kai A.; Cusack, Thomas R. - 2013
What is the strategic role of membership in an intergovernmental group with unanimity requirements if the group negotiates with an external player in a setting with incomplete information? Being in such a group has a strategic effect compared to negotiating as a stand-alone player and reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291516
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Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy : A Survey
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2019
In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889683
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Negotiating to Avoid Gradual versus Dangerous Climate Change: An Experimental Test of Two Prisoners' Dilemma
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328806
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Pricing Pollution
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2020
I examine a policy-making game among countries that must choose both a policy instrument (e.g., a tax or a quota) and its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non-cooperatively, they not only set the intensity inefficiently, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214180
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Leadership and Climate Policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582117
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How to Handle the Crisis in Greece? Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey of Economics Experts
Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus - 2016
We asked experts from 113 countries polled by the CESifo World Economic Survey for their opinions on how to handle the crisis in Greece. 61.9% of the experts surveyed were not in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone in the course of the negotiations held in June and July 2015. However, experts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480443
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The Alma Mater Effect - Does Foreign Education of Political Leaders Influence Foreign Policy?
Dreher, Axel; Yu, Shu - 2016
We study whether national leaders’ foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). We hypothesize that “affinity” - pre-existing or developed while studying abroad - makes leaders with foreign education more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480454
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International Political Alignment during the Trump Presidency: Voting at the UN General Assembly
Mosler, Martin; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020
We examine voting behavior of Western allied countries in line with the United States over the period 1949 until 2019. Descriptive statistics show that voting in line with the United States on resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was on average 7.2 percentage points lower...
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