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Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014

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 …

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Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; der … - 2017

We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...

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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...

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On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare: New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019

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

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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Bartos, Vojtech; Levely, Ian - 2018

sanctions. …

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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; van der … - 2011

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

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The Impact of US Trade Sanctions on the Global Trade of Target Countries: Do the Political Institutions of the Targets Matter?

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024

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 …

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The Effects of International Sanctions on Military Spending of Iran: A Synthetic Control Analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019

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 …

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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 …

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