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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 - 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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Gradualism and Uncertainty in International Union Formation
Konstantinidis, Nikitas - 2021
the latter is assumed to be weakly efficient? We propose uncertainty about the benefits of integration as a mechanism that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316888
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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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Do China and Russia Undermine US Sanctions? Evidence from DiD and Event Study Estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
A frequently employed argument against imposing international sanctions is that rival superpowers are likely to bust … sanctions to simultaneously shield the target, harm the sender, and make a profit. We evaluate the legitimacy of this concern by … studying the effect of US sanctions on trade flows between sanctioned and third countries during the period 1995–2019 using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470358