Similar Search Results

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

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

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

Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy : A Survey

Aidt, Toke - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889683

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

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

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

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

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

Can and Should the EU's Eastern Partnership be Saved?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2014

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398677